Orthotown January/February 2020 - 26

You were surrounded by a lot of people
who worked in the dental field when
you were growing up. Your best friend's
father was a dentist, another good
friend's father was your orthodontist
and your pastor was an oral surgeon.
Is it safe to say pursuing a career in
orthodontics was inevitable?
Many dentists are lucky to have family
members in the field who influenced them in
their career choice. I don't have any health
care providers in my family, but I benefited
from the amazing examples of friends and
their families I grew up with. It's rare to call
your family dentist, orthodontist and oral
surgeon "close family friends." I also did have
orthodontics twice as a kid, which definitely
familiarized myself with the profession.
In the end, my best friend, who always
knew he wanted to go into dentistry, was the
biggest influence in my ultimate decision.
I even went as far as to move to Kentucky
to attend dental school with him at the
University of Louisville before I was accepted
at New York University and moved to New
York City. (I was probably better off not
attending with him, honestly, because we
would have joked around too much.)

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Your path to orthodontics wasn't
exactly smooth sailing: You started out
as an English major, and didn't get into
dental school the first time around.
How did you move past that and
ultimately become an orthodontist?
My issue in high school and the university was that I simply wasn't working
hard academically! I was focused on being
"well-rounded," which basically meant not
stressing about grades and having a good
time. Definitely not the best strategy for
getting into professional school. I did well
on the DAT and my overall GPA was fine,
but my science GPA was mediocre and my
extracurriculars weak.
After I got my act together at the very
end of college, retook a particularly difficult
class-Organic Chemistry II, anyone?-and
added a few extra science classes to my
course load, I significantly improved my
acceptance chances.
The second time around, I got a few
more interviews, and the one at NYU went
particularly well. While on the tour at my
NYU interview, I was lucky enough to run
into two old friends whom I hadn't been
expecting to see. One was from my high


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