Three Dentists, One Address: The 48-Year Handoff at 718 Coast Highway 101
A surfer opened it in 1978 and worked evenings. A Carlsbad High grad kept it for 17 years. Now an Army veteran who served in Baghdad runs the Leucadia office.
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The Numbness Fix Has a San Diego Patent. One Inventor Practices on Chula Vista’s Third Ave
Dr. Howard Katz shares a 2002 patent behind OraVerse, the drug that shortens dental numbness. He and Dr. Carli Katz now practice at 613 Third Avenue in downtown Chula Vista.
Orange Glen to the Dominican Republic: Escondido’s Dr. Jon Campbell Comes Home
He grew up in Valley Center, went to Orange Glen High and came back to run a Cedar Street dental office, while returning, every couple of years, to teach in the Dominican Republic.
Camp Pendleton’s next-door dentist: a Navy veteran’s 20 years on El Camino Real
Dr. Steven Streelman left Loma Linda for four years as a Navy dentist, a tour in Iraq and missions in the Philippines, then built an Oceanside practice around military families.
One dentist, forty years: Dr. Daniel Stragier and the Clairemont solo practice
Licensed in June 1985, Dr. Daniel Stragier still treats every patient himself at Balboa Dental Care, a holdout from the era when the one-dentist office was the norm.
Packard Dental on Carlsbad Village Drive: a family name, a third-generation dentist
A Navy dentist turned congressman, a 1982 license on Grand Avenue, a 2011 graduate back in the family office: the paper trail behind Packard Dental's claim to three generations.