DR. JACOBY'S BIO
Dr. Jacoby graduated from dental school in 1991. He attended the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, a school that no longer exists, but Dr. Jacoby did not have anything to do with the school shutting down. Mismanagement, probably.
After dental school, Dr. Jacoby received post-graduate training for two years in the New York City Health and Hospitals system, first as a general practice resident, then as a Fellow in Special Patient Care and Geriatrics. It was there that he learned the fine arts of eating out of vending machines and drinking his coffee at room temperature.
For the past twenty years, Dr. Jacoby has served as a consultant with the Archdiocese of New York, working in a clinic that provides dental services to autistic and developmentally disabled adults and children. He describes this as "essentially a volunteer position" because the pay is so low.
Dr. Jacoby taught at New York University's College of Dentistry for twenty one years as a Clinical Assistant Professor. He was part of the Department of Oral Medicine, Basic Sciences division. He prepared new dentists for practice by teaching them the intricacies of Oral Cancer Screening and management of dental emergencies. "While the science of dentistry has changed in the last twenty years," he says, "The profession still attracts the same kind of confused, artistic, and arrogant individuals that it always has."
Dr. Jacoby has dedicated his life to dentistry, with varying degrees of success. For ten years, he was Assistant Director of Dentistry in a nursing home that has since changed hands. He was part of the team that founded Dentists on the Go, a mobile dental platform that serviced patients in various assisted living facilities and private homes in Manhattan. His intention remains as it always has: to render compassionate care in a reasonable and caring manner, and to make oral health available to all people, regardless of circumstance.