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his car said "Wire Em." It looked so fun
and busy.
In dental school at the University of the
Pacific, I spent quite a bit of my "extra" time
in the orthodontic clinic observing. One day
during lunch, Dr. Dugoni (our dean and an
orthodontist) had a lunch-and-learn about a
career in orthodontics and his enthusiasm was
contagious. After graduating and practicing
dentistry, I began to feel the calling to be an
orthodontist. This got stronger every day.
I continued to visit different orthodontists
in my area and spend time in their offices
even though I was a dentist.
What was the path you took that led
to you becoming an orthodontist?
In college, I took a winter-term dental
practicum that let me visit different dental
specialties, including orthodontics, and write
about my experience. The orthodontist I
visited, Dr. George Chingas, had a daughter
I went to high school with. I thought his
office was so cool, with an open bay concept
and a sailfish hung over his treatment area
with braces on it. Even his license plate on
You used to be a competitive
figure skater and practiced dentistry
before switching to orthodontics.
How (and why) did you make that
transition from skating to dentistry
and, ultimately, to orthodontics?
Are there any similarities between
figure skating and orthodontics?
As a teen, I trained with Olympic
medalist Charlie Tickner in Squaw Valley,
California, which hosted the 1960 Winter
Olympics. My coach, Barbara Wagner,
was an Olympic gold medalist, but when
I saw the commitment in time and money
that was required, I felt that I also needed
an educational career path, because so few
athletes achieve Olympic status.
While I was in high school, my family
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