Meet the Team

Dr. Dawn Grandison, DDS

Dr. Grandison began her dental education in her native island of Trinidad, West Indies, and transferred to Howard University, College of Dentistry in Washington, DC.  In 2000 she graduated with a  Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) Degree and went on to complete a two year General Practice Residency at Louisiana State University, and the hospital system in New Orleans and Biloxi, Mississippi. There she became certified to do conscious sedation and nitrous oxide or laughing gas.  For four years she worked as an Associate Dentist at a private dental practice in New Castle County, Delaware, where she continued to do work with dental patients requesting IV sedation and General Anesthesia. Prior to that, she was the first Dental Director at the Kent Community Health Center in Dover, which she helped establish. Dr. Grandson's interests include music and tai chi. She is a volunteer member of the Medical Reserve Service Corp and volunteers at the Hope Medical Clinic, dental section, at the Modern Maturity Center in Dover, Delaware.  Smile-to-Smile Family Dental & Sedation Center will allow Dr. Grandison to again make dental care possible for the apprehensive patient in southern Delaware and beyond. She is an advocate of empowering and mentoring her patients, and is happy to re-create great smiles that will be passed on. Dr. Grandison is a member of the American Dental Society (ADA), the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD), the Delaware State Dental Society (DSDS) and the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA).