Few things in the world are more expressive than a smile, and I take pride in helping people keep their smiles healthy and beautiful for a lifetime. As I’ve grown in my dental career, I’ve found the importance of not only physical health, but also emotional health and how much of it can come from our perception of self. I come to work every morning focused on building long-term relationships with my patients, listening to their concerns and goals, and improving their dental health and awareness with the knowledge that this will advance their overall well-being.
My team and I set out to create an environment that mirrors our own—one of community. As a patient, you can expect attention, care, trust, and laughter. We truly enjoy working together with you to identify a plan that fits and works for you. I love that I have the opportunity to live in the community that I serve, and so I adopt a treatment philosophy that centers and values continual care, where the bonds that I form with you become an extension of my family.
I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, not knowing what I wanted to do when I grew up. I graduated from Auburn University in Alabama and began a career in financial consulting at a health care firm in Indianapolis. At the young age of 24 I began feeling that I was working hard every day while simultaneously making health care worse. I decided on a career change and researched a range of medical professions, from physician to dentist, nurse to pharmacist, to see if one would register as ‘my calling.’ I was surprised to find that dentistry, a career I had never considered, aligned with everything I was looking for out of a career of service. I could talk and get to know my patients over years of working together. Not only could I treat the physical, helping avoid pain and disease, but also help the emotional side by instilling confidence and excitement in someone’s everyday life. I love working with my hands and using different techniques and tools to accomplish my goal. The more I looked, the more dentistry seemed perfect, and so I left my job, went back to school, and five years later I was graduating from Louisville School of Dentistry.
More unexpected changes eventually brought my wife and I here to Bedford Township. We’re now raising our young daughter here and loving being a part of this community. When not at work, we love being outdoors, traveling to see friends and family and gardening in our little plot of land.