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McCall, Connie, 1932-2006

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Connie McCall (July 7, 1932 - June 25, 2006) was a dentist in southern Nevada from the 1950s-2000s. Connie grew up in Las Vegas and attended Las Vegas High School. After graduation, she went to college at the University of Kansas City School of Dentistry, where she was the only woman working on a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. Connie established a therapeutic dental office for troubled girls in Caliente, Nevada, wrote dentistry training books for hospitals, and implemented the first holistic dental research training program in Nevada, which used color and sound therapy. She and her husband started an advertising and public relations firm, and they founded the Connie McCall Foundation for Health Research and Education. She appeared in the 1989 edition of “Distinguished Women in Southern Nevada.”