Richard W. Panek, DDS, could have scoured the globe for a new oral surgeon for the Center for Oral Surgery and Dental Implants (COSDI) and not found a better-qualified candidate than the kid who grew up next door.
Grand Rapids resident Mark Grinzinger, DDS, MD, 32, who joined the practice this past summer, was Dr. Panek’s next-door neighbor in Rockford for years. As a sophomore at Rockford High he “job-shadowed” Dr. Panek for a day—and quickly dropped ideas of becoming a pilot to aim at an oral surgery career instead.
“He was a really smart kid from a great family,” says Dr. Panek. “I could tell he had good hands. He liked building models—not just plastic ones you assemble, but airplanes made with balsa wood and paper.”
A 2011 Michigan State graduate, Dr. Grinzinger finished at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry (where Justin M. Pisano, DDS, another member of the COSDI team, was a classmate and friend) in 2015. Then came more training, with an MD at Wayne State’s medical school followed by a residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery in Detroit’s Ascension St. John Hospital system.
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