Katie Talmo
Best Yoga
Voted Best Yoga 2013-2019
DENTIST
180 HIGHLAND AVE., (617) 864-6111
Katie Talmo finds joy in giving her patients the care they need to feel good about smiling. “The nice thing about my profession is that at the end of the day, there is a tangible result of what you’ve just done,” Talmo explains. “Restoring somebody’s ability to smile confidently again is very satisfying, it’s lifechanging for some people, and I really enjoy that.” Talmo has kept the work of her mother and father (a dental hygienist and a dentist, respectively) alive, taking over their cozy Somerville practice and caring for many of the same long-time patients. And just as her parents guided her, Talmo gives back to the future crop of dentists—as a
Best Dentist
clinical professor at the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Talmo instructs and assists students with a handson, case-by-case approach. What ultimately drew Talmo to dentistry, beyond being immersed in her parents’ work growing up, was the creativity of the field. “It always struck me that it was a really rewarding profession, and it was a really nice intersection of science and craft, almost,” she says. “It really blends artistry in a way—especially when you’re dealing with something cosmetic—and science and human anatomy and biology.”
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FITNESS
ACHIEVE FITNESS
42 MERRIAM ST., (617) 616-5801 ACHIEVEFITNESSBOSTON.COM
Best Frame Shop
Lauren and Jason Pak opened Achieve Fitness in 2012 with the goal of creating a “space where everyone felt comfortable and supported by both the staff and the other members of the gym.” Since then, they’ve grown from 25 members to 250, along with an Instagram following of over 575,000. To the Paks, the biggest compliments come when people “tell us that they feel like they’ve finally found their ‘home’ at Achieve Fitness.”
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