8/25/2023 0 Comments Care now keller![]() In 2000-2001, I went out to Seattle and got some very advanced training on comprehensive treatment, and additional training in oral conscious sedation because I had so many patients who were afraid of being at the dentist. In 1995, I bought a family practice in Greenfield, MA, three miles up the road from where my husband and I lived in Deerfield. As a result, I have a very strong medical background, and can speak with physicians and medical people very comfortably. It was a nice process of teamwork, and we got to see amazing things and have great training experiences. ![]() As a first-year resident, my job was to go down to the ER, assess the situation, and do what I could in terms of facial lacerations and care, and call a higher resident for backup. They didn’t call the dental residents down to the ER for a toothache they would call us down when a motorcyclist without a helmet launched themselves headfirst into a telephone pole and cracked their skull open and needed the scalp stapled closed. ![]() I was also in-house, on-call every fourth night with the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery trauma team. Residencies aren’t required for dentists, so it was an extra year of experience working in a clinic setting with local dentists as attendings during the week. I did a one year general practice residency at Hartford Hospital, which was a major trauma center. It was pretty awesome because it was a nice broad exposure to all things medical. I was lucky to go to the University of Connecticut as we actually had the medical and dental students together for the first two years, so I took the same basic science courses as medical students, including full body dissection in anatomy. Dental school was a combination of boot camp and kindergarten-not the greatest experience, particularly after Harvard. I went to the University of Connecticut Dental School. I had wanted to be a dentist since I was about six years old, and I knew the importance of comfortable treatment and having a beautiful smile from my own early dental experiences. Freshman year, I also learned to row crew (which was something I just wanted to try), and I’m now rowing crew again as an adult, over 30 years later! I was a history major during undergrad, which means I used up all of my elective courses with basic science courses as I was mapping my route for dental school. When I came to Harvard, I played double bass in the orchestra and also played trumpet in the band. I’m originally from outside Erie, Pennsylvania.
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