Dr. Jessica Hsu
Dr. Jessica Hsu was born and raised in Sugar Land, TX a stone’s throw away from Imperial Sugar Mill. As a child she learned how to horseback ride before she learned how to ride a bike. Her parents, Robert and Jennie Hsu, first generation immigrants from Taiwan, were the first of the family to leave their home country for the United States in order to pursue further education in post-graduate studies. Her father is a now-retired chemical engineer; her mother was a homemaker who ran multiple small home businesses, including a real estate and rental agency. Both parents grew up with very little dental education and have struggled with periodontal disease throughout their lives.
Her father has multiple dental implants and absolutely loves them. This joy led to him introducing his dentist to his daughter, Dr. Hsu, while she was still in college and in search of her career path at the University of California, San Diego. As a result of this introduction, her father’s dentist became her mentor and spurred a lifelong passion for surgery and dental care. Growing up with an immense sweet tooth and always dreading going to the dentist, it never failed that every time she saw the dentist she would have a new cavity to be filled and a fat lip to go home with. From her perspective at the time, dental decline was inevitable and dentists were the bearers of bad news. However, because of her relationship with her mentor, Dr. Hsu was able to learn the fundamentals of dental health while pursuing her education in dentistry and helped her internalize the importance of preventative dental hygiene and resolve her dental fears and anxieties.
Dr. Hsu attended University of California San Diego achieving her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Cell Biology with fields of focus in economics and Chinese where she graduated magna cum laude with Provost Honors. Dr. Hsu furthered her education at Columbia University, College of Dental Medicine in New York City to earn her Doctorate degree in Dental Surgery. After completion of dental school, Dr. Hsu continued on to specialize in the field of Periodontics and Implant surgery at a three-year residency program at the University of Washington. Here she obtained her specialty certificate in Periodontology and Dental Implantology and defended her thesis in mucosal immunity to achieve a Master of Science in Dentistry. Dr. Hsu is a Board Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, an elected member of the Academy of Osseointegration, and is recognized as The Top Periodontist in Bellevue Washington by Women in Medicine, July 2020.
On a personal note, Dr. Hsu is fluent in both conversational Chinese and Japanese. She enjoys hiking through the Cascades with her six year old husky Nymeria, gardening with a brown thumb, snowboarding at Crystal Mountain, journalistic amateur photography, home cooking, and most importantly eating.