Frazee Family Dentistry is stepping into a new level for their business as they move into a new office and building of their design. That kind of leap is not new for dentist, Dennis Frazee. In fact, it is a well thought out and strategic step for Frazee. The self-professed life-long learner put the knowledge he acquires into a vision of a different sort of dentistry practice operated as a solid and thriving business. Each day builds on the last and prepares him for the next.
Frazee Family Dentistry is stepping into a new level for their business as they move into a new office and building of their design. That kind of leap is not new for dentist, Dennis Frazee. In fact, it is a well thought out and strategic step for Frazee. The self-professed life-long learner put the knowledge he acquires into a vision of a different sort of dentistry
practice operated as a solid and thriving business. Each day builds on the last and prepares him for the next.
Frazee and his wife, Kristina, have always been Hoosiers and were high school sweethearts. They grew up in northwest Indiana where he started working as a cleanup guy for a local contractor. “I have never liked sitting still,” Frazee said, “I always needed to be doing something. When I was 13 years old, I wanted to buy some basketball cards. I knew if I saw something I wanted, I had to figure out how to get it, so I went to work.” Over the next six summers, Frazee grew more experience and learned that he enjoyed working with his hands.
Frazee Family Dentistry is stepping into a new level for their business as they move into a new office and building of their design. That kind of leap is not new for dentist, Dennis Frazee. In fact, it is a well thought out and strategic step for Frazee. The self-professed life-long learner put the knowledge he acquires into a vision of a different sort of dentistry
practice operated as a solid and thriving business. Each day builds on the last and prepares him for the next.
Frazee and his wife, Kristina, have always been Hoosiers and were high school sweethearts. They grew up in northwest Indiana where he started working as a cleanup guy for a local contractor. “I have never liked sitting still,” Frazee said, “I always needed to be doing something. When I was 13 years old, I wanted to buy some basketball cards. I knew if I saw something I wanted, I had to figure out how to get it, so I went to work.” Over the next six summers, Frazee grew more experience and learned that he enjoyed working with his hands.
He said he could have easily gone into the construction business, but instead he headed south to begin college at Wabash College in Crawfordsville. With a major in biology, he had his sights set on a career in the medical field, most likely as a doctor. Being a person who really wanted to be prepared for his next step, Frazee began interviewing doctors.
What he discovered is he did not want to spend the rest of his life in a hospital.
After talking to the counselors at school, his brother who is a dentist, and many other dentists, he decided to pursue dentistry. “I like talking with people and working with my hands,” Frazee said, “so dentistry made sense.” He would have a year between graduating from Wabash and entering dental school. A counselor suggested he enroll in a master’s degree program in biology at IUPUI during that year. Then he easily segued into the Indiana School of Dentistry at IUPUI.
By his second year of dental school, Frazee and Kristina had already made the decision to start a new practice from scratch rather than working for others or buying a practice. They began to get the building blocks in place to go into it straight after school. They compiled a business plan and approached the bank. Their plan was impressive, but the reply was, “We don’t know if you can drill a tooth.” Their financing was rejected. He knew what he had to do.
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