North Miami dentist Roger Phanord remembers the moment he decided to get into the field. He was 7 years old and lived with his mother in Harlem, New York. He had a toothache, but their family didn’t have much money, so they visited a man who practiced dentistry in his kitchen.
He went home without any pain.
“I thought that was an amazing experience,” Phanord, 63, told the Miami Herald. “And ever since, I wanted to do dentistry.”…