About Dr. Dressel

Dr. Jeffrey M. Dressel grew up on Long Island. He attended the State University of New York at Albany as an undergraduate, and then studied at New York University College of Dentistry where he received his DDS degree in 1993.

After finishing dental school, he completed a 2 year residency in Dental and Oral Surgery at Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn.

He began seeing patients at the family dental practice on 2nd Place in 1996. This practice was started in a brownstone by his great grandfather in 1923 on the corner of Columbia and Union streets. Dr. Dressel has a long family history here in Brooklyn, as his uncle and grandfather were local dentists seeing patients in this family practice as well.

Dr. Dressel renamed the practice "Dental Care of Cobble Hill" and has been at 62 2nd Place ever since.

He is married, and has two little daughters, Eleanor Catherine and Lily Cecilia.

"I love what I do, and I always enjoy meeting new patients. From time to time, I see patients from my Great-Grandfather's Columbia Street dental office. It's fascinating to talk with them about what it was like to see a dentist in those years"

Photography by Dr. Dressel »

This is a photograph of the intersection of Columbia and Union Streets, looking north towards Carroll Gardens. Great-Grand-Dad's dental office was in the brownstone on the south-west corner, above the American flag. He started his practice in 1923 and I am still treating great-grandchildren from the original families who remained in Carroll Gardens.