Mary Jo Frazier

Dr. Mary Jo Frazier
There are 3 types of patients just as there are 3 types of dentists. The first is the patient who looks to the past where they have had a dreadful dental experience and hesitate, at all costs, to seek dental care. There is the patient whose only contact with a dentist is in the present when the patient decides “I’ll see a dentist” and schedules a dental appointment. The third patient looks to the future, regularly having had appointments in the past, in the present, and schedules for the future.

Likewise, there are 3 types of dentists: those who speak of past glories and practice as they did “in the good old days”, the dentist who is only concerned with the patient’s present-day status and, lastly, the dentist who sees the whole patient, dutifully considering the patient’s past, present and future-a complete dental picture, a plan. I am pleased to be this third type of dentist, one who takes a comprehensive approach to long term patient care.

I am a continuum in the Frazier clan of dentists. My history incorporates many Fraziers, not the least my dad, L.T. Frazier D.D.S., of Lyons, Kansas . He recently celebrated 57 years of active dentistry and continues to practice today in my home town in Kansas. I credit my great uncle, Wilmer B. Eames D.D.S., former head of dental research at Emory University. I also give credit to my cousin and dental schoolmate, Michael C. Frazier D.D.S., now a prominent Indiana Orthodontist. My niece, Nicole Frazier Gust D.D.S., and her husband Jeff Gust D.D.S. practice in Hutchinson, Kansas. I look forward to helping my nephew, Ian Frazier Graham, as he prepares at the University of Kansas and, hopefully, moves onto my alma mater, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry.

My dental resume reaches back to the 6th grade when I worked in my dad’s office cleaning instruments and seating patients. I left college early, taking with me a Phi Beta Kappa key, and attended UMKC School of Dentistry where my father and other relatives had graduated. Graduating with honors, I took a post-graduate program in hospital dentistry at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco. That learning experience gave me a greater advantage of understanding skittish, dental phobics. After post-graduate work, UCLA offered me a teaching position and I moved to Los Angeles. In the early 1980’s I worked with Dr. Sidney Brownstein and then opened my own practice in Westwood, where I was the first woman dentist. I later moved that office to its present location in Santa Monica.

During my 30 years of dentistry practice, I have been fortunate to associate with some of the best and brightest dental specialists. I am pleased to call them colleagues- all are listed in the “referral” section of this website.

I am certain that my status as a wife and mother of three has added greatly to my abilities to provide a caring and nurturing atmosphere in my practice, an attribute contributed to by all of my staff.

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