Yogita Butani Thakur DDS, MS
Dental Director

Dr. Thakur trained as a dentist in India at the VYWS Dental College and Hospital (1991-96). She received her MS at the College of Dentistry, University of Iowa and then completed a fellowship at UCSF School of Dentistry’s Centers to Address Disparities in Oral Health. She has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the AAPHD Leverett Award and an NIH funded COHORT Training Grant. Her key interests include children’s oral health, access to care, oral health disparities, children with special needs, and early childhood caries. She also has a strong interest in research and has contributed to a number of articles involving oral health disparities, children with special needs and varying factors influencing access to dental care for children. She trained in pediatric dentistry at the University of California, San Francisco where she received her Certificate in Pediatric Dentistry and was the chief resident from 2009-10. She was also a Clinical Scholar at UCSF’s School of Global Health from 2008-2010. Dr. Thakur is a member of the American Dental Association, American Association of Public Health Dentistry, California Society of Pediatric Dentistry and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry.