People are sometimes surprised to learn that I spent the first two decades of my career as a dental surgeon before I ever picked up a syringe of filler. They shouldn’t be, because I don’t think there’s a better training ground for facial aesthetics than dentistry. Here’s why that background matters, and what it means for anyone who sits in my chair. An intimate knowledge of the anatomy Dentistry is, at its heart, the study of the lower face. For twenty years I worked millimet