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.” Roger Phanord and his twin sons, Kyle and Kevin, are now practicing together at North Miami’s Phanord and Associates, a dental clinic with 12,000 active patients, a number Roger says is uncommonly high for a general practice.
The three men are part of a small fraction of Black dentists in America, who make up less than 4% of all dentists in the U.S. Through mentorship, the family seeks to increase that number and help diversify their industry.
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