- Favorite athlete ever is Mickey Mantle
- Current favorite athletes are Aaron Judge and Josh Allen
- Had lunch planned months in advance at Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant and he just so happened to die that day. That is where and when he got his poster that is in the office hallway
- Climbed Coba Ruins in Riviera Maya, Mexico (see photo)
- Favorite actor is Mark Wahlberg
- Favorite movie is The Godfather, Part 2
- Most surprising, unique tourist place visited was Christmas Story House, near Cleveland
- Favorite dental procedure he loves is restoring missing teeth with implants
- Office was a converted two-family home that was just a few houses away from his two closest high school friends
- Favorite non-island place to visit is Las Vegas, though he does not gamble
- Favorite wrestler is/was Bruno Sammartino
- ’s first job while in high school and college was as a delivery boy for Publix Pharmacy on Main Street in Woodbridge
- worked as a pharmacist averaging over 20 hrs. per week while in Dental School
- Routinely advises young dentists on procedure techniques as well as medication recommendations
- Dave, when he was in the USPHS, was on the NIH Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and made recommendations to the Directors of the National Institutes of Health on new drugs that they should consider
- Favorite actress is Jessica Chastain
- Has attended and engaged in over 3,000 hours of continuing education since graduating Dental School
- still uses his 1973 Texas Instruments SR-10 Calculator from his college days. This calculator is in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (see photo)
- Received the Italian Dental Society of NY Scholarship Award
- In addition to being interviewed on TV, he has been discussed in numerous newspaper articles including the NY Times
- Plays Fantasy Football, Baseball, Basketball and Hockey due to his love of sports and is at 98 to 99th percentile in terms of success level rating as he is very competitive
- Has been an advisor/consultant for dental pharmacology companies
- His dad was a great local baseball player in the 1920s and was invited to the St. Louis Cardinal Spring Training camp. Was unable to attend as Dr. Dave’s grandfather died
- One of his brothers was an offensive lineman for the Ohio State football team until a serious knee injury ended his career
- Received the American College of Stomatologic Surgeons award
