If you asked me at the start of dental school what kind of dentist I’d become… I wouldn’t have said periodontist. I didn’t even fully understand what a periodontist was yet. Like most people, I thought dentistry was about fixing teeth—fillings, crowns, making smiles look nice. And don’t get me wrong, that matters. But the more I got into it, the more I realized… that’s not the whole story. Because teeth don’t fail on their own. They fail because of what’s happening around t