Dr. Charles Tozzer

Why did I get into dentistry is a good question. About 10 years old I made the decision. It's hard to tell you exactly why, but it's really easy as you're growing up that you focus just to continue to pursue that in one area. I think I first wanted to be a cowboy at about three or four. After that it was dentistry and it's always been.My educational background basically is four years of college and then four years of dental school. College was at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Dental school was The University of North Carolina. I had the extreme honor of being able to teach at that dental school and also out here at USC Dental School and we worked with dental students teaching a lot on our nonprofits.The most rewarding part for me is the contact and working with patients. I really enjoy when we help patients overcome fears and turn them into happy patients. Someone that comes in that has a real apprehension when we work through that, I tell the patients of fear exposed never has the same power over you. Fear concurred never has that power over you. So we worked with a lot of patients that have had bad experiences in the past, which is unfortunate, but we work to become the good experience they have.