Thank you for your interest in Gentle Dental Associates! Our commitment is to provide you the highest standard of personalized dental care in a gentle, efficient, and professional manner. We trust you will find our atmosphere calming, our staff friendly, and our dental services exceptional. You have nothing to fear!
With an emphasis on lifetime prevention, Gentle Dental Associates offers you comprehensive dental care in the convenience of one location in Ann Arbor, MI. Utilizing the latest techniques in Cosmetic Dentistry, Sports Dentistry, Trauma Treatment, Family Dentistry, and Periodontal Care, your comfort, health and appearance are foremost in our minds. The mission of Gentle Dental Associates is to create healthy and beautiful smiles for all families of our diverse community in a gentle and respectful environment.
Dr. Allen Seel called Michigan his home for his entire life, and called Gentle Dental Associates home for more than 18 years. His passion for comprehensive care, with an emphasis on cosmetic dentistry and smile makeovers, was his trademark as our senior dentist.
Dr. Seel did his undergraduate work at the University of Detroit for three years before being accepted to the dental program at the University of Detroit School of Dentistry from which he graduated in 1962. He then became an associate in a practice in Detroit for eight months before he started his own practice in Dearborn in 1963. He continued to practice alone for many years until the practice grew into the need for two associates who later became his partners. The growing practice moved to a larger facility until 1991 when Dr. Seel sold the practice to his partners. In 1991 he bought a practice in Ypsilanti and founded Gentle Dental Associates, which moved to its current location in Ann Arbor in 1997.
Dr. Seels commitment to continuing education led him to complete more than 2700 hours in advanced dental education. While he no longer practiced dentistry, he served as a mentor for the dentists he had assembled to service the needs of the patients in his busy office.
Dr. Seel was happily married to Phyllis, a psychologist, for more than 51 years. Their daughter, Robin, is married to Jeff. They also share two sons Brad, and David, married to Deborah. The family has grown through the years to now include ten grandchildren Josh, Rebecca, Alexandra, Mathew, Noah, Jake, Madison, Jack, Lillie, and Sophia.
I believe that compassion, empathy, tenderness, honesty, and skill contribute equally to treatment. The entire team at Gentle Dental Associates reflects this notion, and I am proud to be a part of this team. Dr. Hwang
Dr. Debby Hwang practices full-time as an American Board of Periodontology-certified periodontist and implant surgeon. Her particular interests are dental implant and conservative therapy. She is the chief editor of Implant Site Development, a well-regarded textbook on dental implantology. A lecturer and author, Dr. Hwang keeps abreast of diagnostic, therapeutic, and research innovations in her field through hands-on courses and contributes to peer-review journals. Dr. Hwang maintains an active membership in the American Academy of Periodontology.
After earning her doctorate, cum laude, from the Harvard University School of Dental Medicine, Dr. Hwang completed her periodontal residency at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, which honored her with the Sigurd P. Ramfjord Award for Excellence. The American Academy of Periodontology privileged her with a scholarship as well as a nomination for the Dr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Kramer Scholar Award for Excellence. Dr. Hwang remains an active member of the American Academy of Periodontology.
Raised in Michigan, Dr. Hwang lives in and loves Ann Arbor and feels that it is a privilege to care for patients here. Dr. Hwang spends time outside of private practice traveling, honing her Mandarin Chinese, catching up on television series, reading essays, and tending to her family and pet cat.