Houston News: Dental

Friday, October 5, 2012

Car smashes into dental office in NW Harris County

SkyEye 13 HD was over a dental office in northwest Harris County where a car crashed into the building

SkyEye 13 HD was over a dental office in northwest Harris County where a car crashed into the building.

It happened at Oral Dental Cares on FM 1960 at Steepletop just before 10am Thursday. The crash left a giant hole in the building. The car was quickly removed.

There's no word on the cause of the crash, but deputies say there were no injuries.

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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Houston's 1st black UT Dental graduate dead at 83

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- One of Houston's premier dentists and the first black person to graduate from the University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston died Saturday.

Dr. Zeb F. Poindexter Jr. was 83.

Poindexter was known as a trailblazer. He graduated high school at age 16. In 1956, he made history as the first African-American to graduate from UT Dental. He then opened his first practice in the historic Chocolate Bayou neighborhood.

By 1960, he built the Sunnyside Clinic on Cullen Boulevard -- a 500-square-foot family dental practice which has grown into a 1,800-square-foot facility known as Poindexter Dental Inc.

He later earned a Masters in Endocrinology at Texas Southern University. After a successful 42-year career in dentistry, Poindexter retired in 2000.

Poindexter's son, Dr. Zeb F. Poindexter III, continues to operate the dental practice in Sunnyside.

Funeral services are pending.