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Nancy Avallone
Nancy Avallone
For Nancy Avallone, the dental office is just a short dash from home. This makes it handy for her to hurry home at noon to walk Bella, her Cavalier King Charles spaniel. As a long-time Lexington resident, Nancy already knows a lot of new patients who come to the office and she also sees many friends who go back to when her own children were in school. Her son Mark, now twenty, attends Rollins College in Florida where he is a collegiate pitcher, and Lauren, eighteen, attends Assumption College.
   Nancy, who has worked with Dr. Coppe “off and on for twenty-five years”, values the sense of community in the office. And, naturally she enjoys being with the children.
   “You can be having a day that’s a little off,” she says, “you know, nothing really very bad, but then some little kid comes in and maybe he’s dressed in a really cute way or maybe says something that cracks you up and suddenly, the way you feel about everything is so much brighter.”
   The innocence, the genuineness, the “shoot from the hip” attitudes all add up to job satisfaction for Nancy Avallone.
   This is the advice she’d give new parents: “Don’t send your kids to bed with a bottle” And to all parents she’d stress the importance of understanding that oral health is related to general health.
   Green is Nancy’s color. It’s warm, she says.
 

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Deborah Tarby


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, who is twenty-one and presently a student at USC and studying in London, and son David, a student at Arlington Catholic.
   Children are so much fun, Deb claims. Asked to share a funny story from her experience, she remembers the woman who called the dental office to say she feared her tooth was obsessed.
   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.
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