Dr. Grace Hwang attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied the Biological Basis of Behavior. Before entering dental school, she spent an insightful year as ABC Network News medical researcher, interviewing daily a wide range of leading medical specialists and summarizing embargoed scientific reports for public health, news, and entertainment. Having always wanted to be a dentist from a young age, she earned her DMD from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 2002 and has been in private practice as a General Dentist ever since.
Her journey has been one of continued learning, balancing clinical excellence, motherhood, and always trying to do what is optimal for patient care. She has a deep interest in longevity for the general dentist – how to have a satisfying, balanced career and stay curious. She spent >13 years as an associate dentist before opening her start-up practice nearly 10 years ago.
Clinically, she enjoys focusing on restoratively driven orthodontics and conservative cosmetic dentistry. She finished an advanced fixed prosthodontic residency with Esthetic Professionals 20 years ago. She has also had a conscious sedation permit since 2007 to better support the anxious, stressed patient. She has offered clear aligner therapy (Invisalign, ProMonitoring) for >22 years and during the pandemic, started a 2-year journey of 400+ continuing education hours with Progressive Orthodontic Seminars, which was completed in 2021. She has found camaraderie with the Official Mommy Dentists in Business group and Guiding Leaders (program completed 2023, participated as mentor in 2025), and is invested in doing good for the next generation of dentists.
She is passionate about the often-overlooked value of a well-done, comprehensive new patient exam. In recent years, her focus has been on helping patients navigate the oral-systemic health dental wellness landscape with the use of screening tools for pH, nitric oxide, saliva testing, utilizing ozone disinfection, assessing nasal patency/airway, big picture occlusion assessments, talking about microbiome, biofilm, nutrition, and listening to the patient. She believes wellness dentistry is critical to explore, define, and incorporate in dental practice so that patients receive the best care they need and deserve. By detecting inflammation and oral dysfunction “upstream” before compounding factors overflow downstream, the burden of health syndromes and disease can be mitigated, and attention shifts to catch problems sooner.
Asking questions, seeking best practices, elevating care, and having conversations that truly help our profession, colleagues, and patients improve, is at the core of why the future of dentistry still feels fresh and she is “not done yet.”
