Monday, March 29, 2010

Meet Our Orthodontist

Dr. Cottingham is a native of Alabama, but has called Indiana home since 1996. She received her B.S. degree from Troy University, in Troy, Alabama in 1991 and her D.M.D. degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1995. She practiced general dentistry for one year at the Veterans' Administration hospitals in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama. She then received her Master's degree in Orthodontics from the Indiana University School of Dentistry in Indianapolis in 1998 and resided as faculty until joining in 1999 what was then known as Clemons Orthodontics. She and her husband currently reside on the west side of Indianapolis.

Dr. Cottingham is a member of the American Association of Orthodontists, the Great Lakes Association of Orthodontists, the Indiana Association of Orthodontists, both the American and Indiana Dental Associations, and the Indianapolis District Dental Society. She is active in several of these organizations in various capacities, with the desire to continue the advancement of dentistry and dental related specialties in our community and throughout the state of Indiana.

Dr. Cottingham also actively supports Special Olympics of Indiana, Make-a-Wish Foundation, Riley Hospital for Children, Sheltering Wings (Hendricks County domestic abuse shelter), the donation of dental services to underprivileged children, and multiple community, school, band, and sports programs.