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David B Kagan DMD

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Dentist enjoys job:
It's also his hobby
By Jenny Vogt

Dentist David B. Kagan insists there is no big tooth statue in the middle of his Boca Raton living room.
      But there might as well be.
     Kagan, 41, said his hobby and his profession -- dentistry -- are the same. It's been that way since he started practicing 15 years ago.
     "I really don't have any other hobbies to speak of," said Kagan, 41, who has spent half of the last six weeks traveling the country to bone up on the latest dental practices. "I really don't think my life could get better."
     Such sentiments are light years away from those Kagan expressed as a 5-year-old, shortly after seeing a dentist whose anesthesia prompted Kagan's childhood nightmares. It is perhaps that incident more than any other that established his commitment to being sensitive to peoples' fears of dentists.
     "I think 50 percent of people are petrified about going to the dentist,: said Kagan, who has offices in suburban Boca Raton and Pompano Beach. "I don't have a sign that says we cater to cowards, but we try as hard as possible to make them completely comfortable."
     Among those efforts are using needle-free anesthesia and virtual reality eye glasses, which allow patients to watch a television show uninterrupted by a dentist's hands. He also offers a procedure that allows a patient to watch deep inside their own mouths by way of a tiny camera.
     "But the main attraction [of dentistry] is I can completely change how someone feels about themselves [by] helping improve

their smile," he said.
     Toward that end, he recently participated in a national Smiles for Life campaign, which raised $1.25 million for St. Jude Chil-dren's Research Hospital in Mem-phis, Tenn. Dozens of Kagan's patients received reduced-cost tooth whitening, which directly benefited the children's hospital in addition to brightening smiles.
     Bill Strupp, a Clearwater den-tist who travels the country train-ing dentists in restorative treat-ment, calls Kagan an inspired practitioner.
     "He's one of those students who took the information and ran with it," Strupp said. "It's like when the student becomes the master. It does me proud."
     As for Kagan, who also does extensive dental health outreach in suburban Boca Raton schools, he simply said, "I try not to be an average dentist."
     He points out that most people can live completely dental healthy lives if they get started early on the right road to pre-vention. That includes fluoride, brushing, flossing, sealants and dentist visits every six months.
     While he stresses that he loves dentistry, Kagan said he does not want to stand solely as an example of good dentistry. Married to his dental hygienist wife, Juli, and with one son, Zachary, 8, he said he wants to stress to everyone that they should follow their dreams, no matter what they are.
     "I want to let people know that they should do what they love to do more than anything." he said. "I really feel like I play, I don't ever work . . . That's the biggest message: Find something you really like to do and the rest will come."

Dentist David B. Kagan recently participated in a national Smiles for Life campaign, which raised $1.25 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

David B Kagan DMD
In Boca Raton Florida and the surrounding
Delray Beach - Deerfield Beach - Parkland - Highland Beach FL areas.