repeating the harvest from that,” said Tamerah, who finished dental school at 26, completed her residency at 28, and opened her practice at 35. While the family patriarch’s original plan to have a brood of agriculturists seemed to dwindle, the transition from animal science to dentistry wasn’t far fetched from maintaining the family legacy of farming. In fact, Ulysses Marable III, 47, said after a long day at the office as an oral and cosmetic restoral surgeon in Middle Georgia’s Fort Valley, he enjoys tending to his farm and furthering what his grandfather instilled. “Our grandfather was a very prominent farmer in Thomas City,” he said. “When he came back from the service, he bought a farm and we started the cycle all over again. I have a farm. We’re rooted in hard work, honesty and academic excellence.”
connection between studying human and animal science are connected more than one would think. “Agriculture is all about science, chemistry, physics and those are the same basic courses that have to be taken in order to reach prerequisites for dentistry,” said Henry Marable, 45. “Being a farmer, you have to apply those same principles of dentistry.” He also mentioned that entrepreneurship was always the priority for the Marables. “All of us as dentists work for ourselves and that lends itself to our grandparents working for themselves,” said the dentist who focuses on soft tissue extraction and dental implants. “With their farming and general store, they never worked for anyone. Our uncle works for himself, and while our father was a school teacher, he owned his own business. There is a degree of satisfaction being able to sustain yourself. We are four generations of entrepreneurs.”
His brother and general dentist, Dr. Henry Marable, says the
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