Dental Hygienist Hits High Note as Musician
Dental hygiene is a flexible career with good pay—at least that’s how Linda Perhacs, RDH, saw it when she graduated with a degree in dental hygiene from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles in the 1960s.
Dental hygiene is a flexible career with good pay—at least that’s how Linda Perhacs, RDH, saw it when she graduated with a degree in dental hygiene from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles in the 1960s.
Perhacs began working in the periodontal practice of a USC professor. One of her patients included Leonard Rosenman, an award-winning composer, who encouraged her to pursue her love of music.
In 1970, Perhacs released her debut album, “Parallelograms,” which had little success initially, but has since become a cult classic. She continued to practice dental hygiene in obscurity. When an indie label re-released her album more than three decades later, however, it took off—and Perhacs was given a second chance at a musical career. Her new album, “Soul of All Natural Things,” was released in March. Perhacs still works as a dental hygienist, which she has been doing for more than 44 years.
From Dimensions of Dental Hygiene. April 2014;12(4):12.
