GLOCESTER, R.I. (WPRI) -- A local dentist played an important role in saving a peregrine falcon that was recently injured after hitting the side of Rhode Island Hospital.

"I got a call from [the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management], and they told me that they had just found a peregrine falcon," explained Sheida Soleimani, the executive director of Congress of the Birds.

Soleimani told 12 News she and her team of volunteers acted quickly once they arrived at the scene and observed that the bird's beak was split down the middle. Rachael Gilardetti, a volunteer who works as a dental surgeon, stepped up to help perform a painless procedure on the falcon's beak.

"The keratin from the base that's damaged is going to grow back," Soleimani said. "So we did a kind of bridge with

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