Broken Braces or Wire for Laredo Families
Our Zapata Highway office sits at 1918 US-83, just south of the Loop 20 interchange on the way out toward Rio Bravo and the Zapata County line. Families from the Santo Niño, Los Obispos, and Hillside colonias pull in between school runs at United South High and weekend trips to the Falcon Lake turnoff, so we keep Saturday hours for teens who can't miss a Tuesday class.
A lot of our ortho patients come from bilingual households where Abuela drives the teen in and Mom clears CHIP paperwork from work — we run the whole intake in Spanish if that's the easier route. Broken brackets and poking wires tend to show up Monday mornings after a weekend of fajitas, Takis, and corn on the cob at a quinceañera, and we'd rather see the teen that afternoon than let a wire dig into the cheek for three more days waiting on the next adjustment.