Our Hygienists

Kim is a native of the Bay Area, a true San Franciscan. She received her dental hygiene training from Chabot College in Hayward, CA. She continued her studies and received her alternative practice license from the University of the Pacific in San Francisco. This allows her to practice hygiene unsupervised to reach the underserved and special needs communities. She has been practicing hygiene since 1998 throughout the bay area. When she isn't working she is enjoying time with her husband and taking care of her family. She has many interests, having a love of knitting, travel, photography, food and baking.

“Lucy” is a native Bay Area Californian, born and raised in Oakland, CA. She is a graduate of California State University, East Bay, with a degree in Health Science. Lucy received her dental hygiene training at Diablo Valley College and has been a practicing registered dental hygienist for over 15 years. She is a member of the East Bay Dental Hygiene Society and the California Dental Hygiene Association. Lucy has been married for almost 25 years and has three beautiful sons. She indulges in her embarrassing guilty pleasure of reality TV and balances the silliness with PBS timepieces such as Downton Abbey, The Crown, and Belgravia. She loves to travel to fun beach locations with friends and family, large ship cruising and visits amusement parks in her free time.

We were so lucky to meet Maida during the pandemic of 2020 and she joined our practice shortly after. She is CA board certified and licensed since 1986. A returning Berkeley native after 20 plus years of country living in Ojai working at UCSB and in private practice, while raising 3 awesome children, 9 rescue dogs, 4 cats, and 10 hens. She experienced first hand the fear of  dentistry as a young person coming from a low preventive dental IQ family with great dental needs. She has taken that experience to become mindful of paying it forward. She not only caters to cowards but understands there is always a story and a person behind a patient and their oral condition. She is fueled by the rich connections of patients and the dental family and keeps joyful as a practitioner with continued education, knowledge and the implementation of new technologies to hygiene treatment and maintenance. She is always looking forward and looks forward to the pleasure of co managing patient care and sharing life stories!

Crystal is a Bay Area native; Crystal left a career in the airline industry to pursue a more deeply rewarding career in health care. She is a fanatic about health and genuinely loves connecting with people. She graduated from Diablo Valley College Dental Hygiene program with Honors and was selected for a very special faculty award for outstanding commitment, ethics, service, and care for two years in a row. Apart from her dedication to dental hygiene and health care, she is an avid runner, and loves to cook.