Dr. Iannotti opened a practice in the Santa Clarita Valley outside Los Angeles with his wife, Dr. Alexis K. Moore, after completing two years of advanced train- ing in general dentistry at the Sepulveda Veterans Affairs Hospital, where the pair met. Dr. Iannotti gives back to the community, too, most recently by donating surgical care to patients at the Bridge to Home Santa Clarita homeless shelter.

“I was scheduled to prep a crown on a lower molar, and the patient’s beard was overgrowing his mouth! I said, ‘Don’t worry, I used to cut hair—let me trim that back, and I can get to the tooth without any problem.’ The assistant suctioned the hair clippings as I trimmed this dude’s mustache in the dental chair.”

“Taking a daily lunch.”