Rick Holley:  

sity of Colorado for the next four years, until 1994. An intense four years of 16 hour per day, 12 months per year study to learn how to be a technician, an artist, a psychologist, and a business owner all rolled into one. I really liked Denver a lot, and would have stayed there if I wasn't looking forward to finally returning to Phoenix so much. I did a year post-doc in Kansas City training in advanced dentistry, so I could do the kind of complex cosmetic and rehabilitative treatment I wanted to be able to do later. So I returned home from school to work as a dentist and to discover that my education began after I graduated, and difficultly but thankfully, never really will stop. Workplace After college ended, I had an education but not much else. I came back to Phoenix and found work as an associate in an HMO dental practice while I searched out a location for my own office, and learned some management and business skills. After about two years, I couldn't take the HMO mentality anymore, and opened a private practice built on the notions of customer service, clinical excellence, and constant education. It has done very well in the Arrowhead area for seven years, and at this writing, I am moving up to a new practice, an advanced reconstructive and cosmetic private practice in the Desert Ridge area of Phoenix, to be open in a few months. I am really excited about this new opportunity, for myself, to continue to develop as a doctor and cosmetic artist , and for a whole new group of patients, whose lives I can hopefully make much more joyful.