A Caring Atmosphere
Welcome to Winning Smile Dental Group, where every person on our team is a kind individual and contributes to a culture of caring. This continuity naturally translates into a sense of trust that can only be built over time. Many patients have told us, “It just feels like family.” We genuinely care about our patients and take a personal interest in what is going on in their lives.
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Meet Our Dentists
Dr. Reese and her team a wealth of experience and passion to Winning Smile Dental Group. They believe that excellent dental care is built not only on exceptional clinical skills, which they possess but also on forming trusting relationships with each patient. That’s why they take the time to get to know everyone who visits and personalize their approach to each smile. They can’t wait to change the way you feel about dentistry!
Polly Reese, DDS
Dr. Reese, inspired by her family’s healthcare background and her own athletic prowess, initially dreamed of becoming a pilot before realizing her true calling in dentistry. Encouraged by her father, who recognized her exceptional hand-eye coordination, Dr. Reese found her passion for making positive and lasting changes in people’s lives through dentistry.
She began her academic journey at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, where she earned a BA degree in 1982. Dr. Reese then pursued further studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, obtaining a BS degree in 1983 and her DDS degree in 1986. Her commitment to continuous learning led her to complete an MBA from the Northwestern Kellogg Executive Program in 2002.
Throughout her career, Dr. Reese has been dedicated to advancing her education and skills and completed continuing education through The Huggins/Grube Protocol, focusing on biologic and holistic dentistry. Dr. Reese further honed her expertise at the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies and the Los Angeles Institute for Esthetic Dentistry, where she mastered various aspects of functional aesthetic dentistry and occlusal disease management. She is also a CEREC Doctors Mentor and an active member of the Spear Education Study Group, participating in advanced courses on treating worn dentition, demistyfying occlusion, facially generated treatment planning, restorative design, CEREC 1, 2 and 3 training and esthetic techniques.
Outside of dentistry, Dr. Reese’s passion is caring for animals. She and her partner have three rescue dogs, and they are her third and fourth pair of rescues. While she never intended to have four dogs at once, she and her partner quickly became foster failures.
Dr. Reese maintains an active lifestyle, having completed three Ironman Triathlons, including the renowned Hawaii Ironman. While she no longer competes in triathlons, she continues to swim, run, and bike for health and enjoyment. An avid golfer and hiking enthusiast, Dr. Reese loves to spend her vacations communing with nature and practicing photography.
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Robert Baima, DDS
As a periodontist with 45 years of experience, Dr. Baima is the person to see if you’re dealing with advanced gum disease or are interested in replacing your missing teeth with dental implants. He enables our dental office to provide several kinds of specialty services in-house so our patients don’t have to travel between different dental offices to get everything they need. Dr. Baima has had a long and storied career in the dental field, and he looks forward to helping you and your loved ones just like he has countless others over the past decades.
As a periodontist with 45 years of experience, Dr. Baima is the person to see if you’re dealing with advanced gum disease or are interested in replacing your missing teeth with dental implants. He enables our dental office to provide several kinds of specialty services in-house so our patients don’t have to travel between different dental offices to get everything they need. Dr. Baima has had a long and storied career in the dental field, and he looks forward to helping you and your loved ones just like he has countless others over the past decades.
Dr. Baima is a native of Northern Wisconsin and a 1975 graduate of the Marquette University School of Dentistry in Milwaukee, WI, where he received his Doctorate of Dental Surgery degree. After two years in private general practice, he decided to pursue the specialty of periodontics. He applied to and was accepted into the Specialty Residency of Periodontology Program at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, VA and graduated with an advanced degree in periodontics in 1979. He subsequently completed advanced training in Prosthodontics and Dental Implantology at the UCLA Medical Center and Veterans Administration Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA.
Dr. Baima has spent over 25 years actively contributing and participating within the academic world of dentistry in addition to his career in private practice. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics, and a member of the American Dental Association. He has presented over 250 formal academic lectures and presentations at various local, state, national, and international dental conventions/seminars, including one life experience lecture (repeated several times) entitled “Life as a Hostage During Iraq’s Occupation of Kuwait,” (where Dr. Baima actually was held as a hostage) to the Los Angeles Rotary Club. He has had peer-reviewed academic articles published in the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, Journal of Prosthodontics, as well as the Journal of the Michigan Dental Association. He has also written several chapters in the textbook Contemporary Fixed Prosthodontics published by C.V. Mosby Company.
Dr. Baima has held academic appointments at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry, Marquette University School of Dentistry, UCLA School of Dentistry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Loyola University School of Dentistry, Veteran Administration Medical Center, and the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry.
Besides pursuing excellence in his academic activities and private practice endeavors, Dr. Baima has also found time to marry and raise a family. Catherine, his wife, has also pursued her own academic interests and is the Director of the German language Graduate Program at the University of Chicago. They have two very active adult children, and they enjoy traveling as a family and trying new and interesting foods during their downtime.
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