Dr. William Trice
PDA President, 1979-1980
Dentistry has been a family
to me. When I went to Pitt,
I came from West Virginia –
I got involved, went to dental
school, went to World War II
and some guys asked me why
I wanted to be a dentist.
And I told them about how
I had seen a dentist perform a
surgery and I was so spell-
bound, when the operation
ended the dentist asked me
what I thought, and I said
‘when this war is over, if I live
through it, I think I’d like to go
to dental school.’ This is how
I really got into dentistry – my
division officer was a guy from
the University of Pittsburgh –
he was not a dentist. But when
the war was over, I came home
– I grew up some 40 miles from
Pittsburgh in West Virginia –
and I was fortunate to get into
Pitt dental school. The more
I got into dentistry, the more
I liked it.
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