Who is Dr. Brooksby

Dear Dr. Brooksby,

I have been reading your Dental Solutions column for the past 6 or 7 months. I am impressed with the breadth of knowledge you have in the area of dentistry. I was wondering if you could tell me about you personally. Nosey.

Dear Nosey,

I am glad that you want to know about me as a person. That is as important as what I know.

I grew up in Las Vegas from 4th grade through High school. I graduated from Clark High School. I graduated from Brigham Young University after serving two years as a missionary for the LDS church in Portugal. I attended the University of the Pacific School of Dentistry in San Francisco and was in the top 10% of my class. I served two years as a lieutenant in the Public Health Service working with the Migrant farm workers in Lamont, California. I practiced as a general dentist in Bakersfield, CA for six years before returning to San Francisco for a two year Prosthodontic Residency at the San Francisco Veterans Hospital in conjunction with the University of California San Francisco School of Dentistry. I also taught while in that program at UCSF and I worked in their Myofacial Pain center learning to treat the very difficult pain patients.

After my Residency if returned to Las Vegas in 1990 and started my own prosthodontic practice. In 1995 I studied in an Advanced Dental Implant study group at Loma Linda University Dental School.

My wife, Karen and I have been married for almost thirty years. We have three children. Ryan is a certified Arborist and Tree Care specialist here in Las Vegas. Andrea is living in Fort Collins, Colorado after finishing her degree in Animal Science. Dana is serving as an LDS or Mormon missionary in the Dallas Texas area learning Spanish and working with the Spanish speaking people in that area.

I was named the Best Prosthdontist in Las Vegas in 2009, 2011 and 2012.

I have been flying airplanes as a licensed pilot since 1977 and became a flight instructor in 2001. I work in the dental office on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and teach people to fly on Wednesday, Friday and Saturdays. I fly a Cessna 310 and a Cherokee 235. My website for flying is http://learntoflylv.com.

I work a lot with computers and the Boy Scouts of America. Each year we try and do something to give back to those around us. Several years ago we went with the LDS Academy of Dentists to Honduras at Christmas time and spent a week doing free dentistry for those in Choloteca, Honduras. We brought our own supplies and instruments and the Dental School in Tegucigalpa provided the chairs, sterilizers, x-rays and compressors that the Academy had donated in previous years. We treated over 450 people that week including placing some implant for one lady with a very loose denture. For the last several year we have had a Christmas party for our patients and they have donated clothes and toys for the kids at Child Have and Shade Tree Shelter.

I hope that has given you an insight into me as a person.

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