Dr. Yusif Mohammad
Dr. Yusif Mohammad is a San Antonio native, and his family has lived here in the Alamo city since the 1920s. He grew up in the Little Dental area, attending Encino Park Elementary, Bush Middle School, and Reagan High School.
He graduated from the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Dentistry in 2012. After spending time working as a general dentist, he returned to the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio to complete an additional two years of specialized training in pediatric dentistry, with a strong focus on sedation dentistry and treating special needs patients. He is board-certified by the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and served as the president of the San Antonio Academy of Pediatric Dentistry.
He is known for his energetic and down-to-earth personality around patients, and you may even catch him singing a song or two during dental treatment. He loves spending time with his beautiful wife and three bouncing boys when he's not treating patients.
Dr. Naven Taiym
Dr. Naven Taiym was born in Chicago and moved to San Antonio with her family when she was five years old. Since then, San Antonio has always been her home. She graduated from O'Connor High School and then attended the University of Texas, where she earned a bachelor's in biology. She graduated from the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Dentistry in 2010.
Over the past 14 years, she has focused her practice on kids’ dentistry. She is certified in pediatric oral conscious sedation and pediatric advanced life support. Dr. Taiym believes that honesty and communication are the keys to the relationships you build with your patients and their parents. She believes that patient and parent education is at the forefront of a lifetime of good oral health.
Dr. Taiym is compassionate and fun, and has a positive and outgoing personality. Dr. Taiym is married to Dr Mohammad and together they have been blessed with three boys. When she is not busy bussing her kids to their soccer games, she enjoys reading, hiking, and gardening with her husband.
