03/08/2022
Happy International Women’s Day! ✨
Today spotlight is dedicated to Rumi Lazarova (D3). Rumi is from Dartmouth, MA and originally from Sofia, Bulgaria. She was first exposed to dentistry, when she was young, watching her mom go through dental school in NYC. That’s when she first fell in love with what she does for her patients and the city she was in. 13 years later, Rumi is here in the city, pursuing what she loves where it all began for her family. She’s drawn to aesthetic dentistry because beautiful smiles empower patients in more ways than we can comprehend. 😁
Rumi loves to relax by taking walks in the park, good takeout and a Netflix binge. Chipotle is her go to comfort food and her favorite guilty pleasure media is “literally anything on TLC.”
Something she wishes her friends outside of dental school could understand is that, “we don’t go into dentistry because we are obsessed with teeth.” (True!) She was also surprised to find out that if you manage your time wisely, you’ll have time to enjoy the city with your friends while staying on top of your work. Rumi loves CDM for the integrated biomedical curriculum, which helped her appreciate the ways in which our systemic health affects our oral health. These are things she teaches her patients everyday.