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BY ROO MOODY
Dr. Kathy Frazar, right, and Dr. Coury Zachary from The Houston Dentists.
Frazar said her team is the reason she loves going to work on Mondays.
PHOTOS COURTESY THE HOUSTON DENTISTS
Local dentist builds path forward for women
The practice is located in Bellaire, near the intersection of Bissonnet Street and Locust Street.
women, and now, she said, it’s her team that keeps her from burning out after all these years. What they o er At The Houston Dentists, clients receive cosmetic dental services in a spa-like environment designed to put nerves at ease. Frazar said one of the biggest misconceptions she hears about dentistry is that it hurts, but she believes it should never be painful. Why it matters Throughout the past few years, Frazar said she’s seen more women attend dental school. When she thinks about her legacy, Frazar said she wants to be remembered as an example for other women—especially her only daughter.
Twenty- ve years ago, Dr. Kathy Frazar estab- lished The Houston Dentists to form the same type of camaraderie that physicians who worked in hospitals experience, because she said dentists tend to work alone. “When I graduated, there were not many women in dentistry, and I didn’t have a mentor,” Frazar said. “There were no women that I could look up to.” She said it was rare for women to start their own practice at the time, but she was willing to risk it. The framework Frazar said she gured that if she had the high- est-trained team making the highest salary, then people wouldn’t want to work anywhere else. So, part of her business plan became investing in
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