History of Inner Harbor Dental
Our story is one of two generations of dentists whose excellence has singled them out for praise as the best in the region, and of a dental practice that rose in synch with the renaissance of downtown Baltimore.
We begin with Dr. Herbert Querido, pictured to the left, who worked with his son, David, his daughter-in-law, Donna, and his wife, Edie, at Inner Harbor Dental. Dr. Herbert Querido started his career as an electrical engineer but switched to dentistry after 18 years.
In a 1999 interview shortly before his passing, he told Baltimore magazine, "At that time, it was hard to find a good job in engineering," Querido explained, "and it meant you would have to go running around the country chasing contracts."
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Instead, Querido decided to settle down in Baltimore with his wife and two children, and made a career change to dentistry because of a personal interest: "When I was a small child, I went to the dentist so much that I could walk there myself. He was supposed to be a super dentist, but he never even had an X-ray machine. ... As a result, I lost a lot of teeth when I shouldn't have."
In 1975, Herbert Querido received his D.D.S. from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. But just as much of his dental knowledge has since come from study at the Pankey Institute, a national continuing-education foundation that takes dentists beyond the basics and into new areas of science, technology, and business.
In the beginning of his distinguished career, Dr. Herbert Querido practiced in the Woodmoor shopping center, near Liberty and the Beltway. In 1980, the practice moved to Light Street, just as the Harborplace pavilions bought worldwide fame to downtown Baltimore's transformation from ugly duckling to beautiful swan. In 1990, Inner Harbor Dental moved to its current location at 33 S. Charles Street.
Inner Harbor Dental certainly qualifies as a "family practice:" today Herbert’s legacy lives on as his wife, Edie, is the office manager, while son David and his wife, Donna Querido, are both dentists.
David followed in his father’s footsteps, receiving his degree in chemical engineering before becoming a dentist in 1987.
As Baltimore magazine noted, "In fact, collecting sheepskins is kind of a family hobby: If you need some legal advice while you're getting that cavity filled, David has a law degree, too."
In 1997, Dr. Herbert Querido's son, David, participated as a consulting physician in Baltimore magazine's search for top docs, helping to survey the area's top dentists. This task confirmed his qualifications as one of the premier practioners in the area.
In 1999, Inner Harbor Dental was listed by Baltimore magazine as one of the top three general dentistry practices in a survey of more than 1,000 dentists in the greater Baltimore region, from Annapolis to Bel Air to Columbia.
Today, the family feeling and a proud tradition of excellent care live on at Inner Harbor Dental, as witnessed by testimonials of happy patients.
"The thing that makes us most unique as a practice," Edie Querido notes, "is that a patient can walk in our door and have treatment of the gums, braces, root canals, cosmetic work, bridges, without sending you elsewhere, with all the treatment by the same dentist. This is very advantageous to the patient."
"We do more than almost any dentist, including orthodontics, implants and veneers."
"We try to value patient's time," she adds. "The dentist is near where you work, and you don't have to wait." For patients that need monthly checks of orthodontics, and who work downtown, Inner Harbor Dental offers convenience.
"We only refer extreme cases," adds Dr. Donna Querido. "And as a husband-and-wife team, it works out well. No one cares more than family."