Vol. 9, Issue 5, May 2021
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Tampa Dental Wellness of Westchase and Carrollwood Delivers Smiles and So Much More By Deborah Bostock-Kelley Most teenagers don’t know their future career path. Dr. Amy Creech-Gionis knew she wanted to follow in her dentist’s footsteps at age 14. While her mother had extensive dental work, he allowed her to sit a watch the procedure from a nearby chair. “At one particular visit for a cleaning, my dental hygienist, Sandy, asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told her ‘I think I want to do what you do.’ She smiled and said, ‘Amy, do what HE does!’” The seed was planted. A Florida native, she attended Stetson
University, studying Biology and Chemistry, and then went on to University of Florida College of Dentistry to complete her Doctor of Dental Medicine degree. “My intention at the beginning of dental school was to become an Orthodontist, however once I got to the clinical portion of dental school, I realized that there are so many cool aspects to dentistry I did not want to limit myself to just one thing for the rest of my career. I loved it all!” She graduated from UFCD in 1995 as a General Dentist and moved to Tampa to join her fiancée and opened her first practice in a high rise in Downtown Tampa. Though she loved her patient See “Dental Wellness” on page 16
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days a week in the gym. They guarantee results in as little as 20 minutes a week! If you believe in exercising to live Owners Lisa Dallas and Frank Ochoa and not living to exercise...then QuickHIT started QuickHIT after undergoing injuries Fitness Labs is the place for you! If you’re that hindered their ability to perform the type of person that values time and is traditional exercise. “We used [QuickHIT] not interested in wasting it in the gym then as a kind of [rehabilitation] towards getting QuickHIT is the place for you. QuickHIT stronger after injuries. Lisa had a double has revolutionized a path to better Health hip replacement from years of teaching and Wellness and is for everyone! It competitive Tap and Jazz.Frank had a doesn’t matter if you’ve never exercised spinal bone fusion on his L4, L5 due to before or simply don’t have the time for 6 See “QuickHIT Fitness” on page 8
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