While attending college, Dr. Feit completed a cancer research internship at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, but he quickly realized that this was the path he desired to continue down in life. Simply put, he just didn’t enjoy hospital life and everything that went along with it. At this point, he was halfway through his college career and ended up visiting his dentist, who was currently a part-time professor at the local dental school near where he grew up. He brought him into the lab in his office and asked him to complete a sculpting project that freshman dental students would work on to pass into their second year of dental school. After Dr. Feit completed the project, his dentist was excited by how well he did and encouraged him to stay on the path of helping people and relieving pain and dysfunction through dental work.

After that life-changing event, Dr. Feit applied to dental school and was able to enter a combined program and earn his college degree after the successful completion of his first year of dental school. And that very same dentist who’d cared for him all his life? He’s now Dr. Feit’s patient! He has been very lucky to have several mentors over the course of his life, but his dentist is a special one for sure who was there for him when he needed him most.