Deborah Tarby
“I was still in high school when my brother was a dental student,” Deb Tarby recalls. “He told me that dentistry was a wonderful field for a woman to enter. And he was right!”
   She followed her brother’s advice and continues to find pediatric dentistry interesting and challenging; as well, she can schedule her time to accommodate the needs of her family—husband and two children: daughter Devon and son David.
   Children are so much fun, Deb claims.
   Deb feels that her skills as a mother transfer to her job. “If a child is crying or is fearful, I find I can comfort him as if he were my own. I am always mindful that this is somebody’s child.”
   And if she had advice to give a parent, it would be: let the child do the talking.
   Green is Deb’s color. She says that it is psychologically soothing, that it “plays well with others” and that it never goes out of style.