Meet The Doctors


Dr. Fabiola Lara

Dr. Fabiola Lara has been treating patients for over 20 years. Her career began as a dental assistant during her undergraduate years of college, where she attended San Diego State University. 

Dr. Lara graduated from University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry as a Fleming Scholar, a prestigious award for outstanding academic performance and community involvement. Dr. Lara continued to serve the dental community by practicing as a public health doctor at the Native American Health Center of San Francisco and Oakland. As a clinical researcher for UCSF, Dr. Lara has helped establish the protocol for Caries Risk Assessment (CAMBRA), a form that dental practices can use to help manage and treat patients that are at high risk for decay. 

Dr. Lara's community outreach is highlighted by her being featured in the "First 5 California" educational video series with her daughter. The series' goal was to teach parents how to take care of their children's dental health during their first five years of life. Dr. Lara has also been instrumental in establishing pediatric departments in an underrepresented communities, where the need was greatest. Her international outreach includes participation in a cleft lip and palate surgery team of dentists and doctors in Wenzhou, China and Ghana, Africa. 

"We wanted to give patients a private practice experience, which we accomplished by educating the parents and focusing on prevention over intervention. I told the parents that my success was knowing that their kids never had to experience having a cavity". - Dr. Lara.

Dr. Lara is proud of the excellent team she has developed over the years and the quality care they help her provide daily. 


Dr. Frank Grimaldi


San Francisco sedation dentist Frank Grimaldi received his bachelor’s degree in Biology from San Jose State University in 1976, graduating Tau Delta Phi scholastic honor society and dean’s list commendations from the School of Science. He received his D.D.S. degree from the University of California, San Francisco, graduating 1st rank in his class and receiving a regent’s scholarship. 

Dr. Grimaldi also received the Omicron Kappa Epsilon dental honor society award as well as the Alpha Omega award for scholastic excellence. He completed residency training in hospital dentistry at the UCSF in 1982, with a specific focus on painless dentistry for medically compromised and developmentally disabled/phobic patients. Dr. Grimaldi served the UCSF faculty in 1983 until 2009 as the Director of the General Practice Residency in hospital dentistry. From 1987 to 2009, he served as the Director of Hospital Dentistry, offering painless dental treatment in an operating room setting. Dr. Grimaldi recently retired as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry at the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Grimaldi holds membership in the Omicron Kappa Epsilon National Honorary Dental Society, the Academy of General Dentistry, the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the California Society of Medicine and Surgery and the Academy of Dentistry for Persons with Disabilities. Dr. Grimaldi is also both a a qualified medical evaluator #9577 for the state of California and certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support, holding a state of California conscious sedation permit #2. He has been recently inducted into the American College of Dentists.

Education:

  • 1972-1976: San Jose State University-  B.A. (Biology)
  • 1977-1981: University of California, SF- B.S., DDS (Dentistry Class Rank: #1 or 89)
  • 1981-1982: University of California, SF- Certificate (Hospital Dentistry)
  • 1998: American College of Dentists- Fellow

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