Mie Narita, DDS
Mie Narita, DDS
Dr. “Mia” Mie Narita was born and raised in Yokohama, Japan. She attended St. Maur International School from preschool to middle school. She then spent her high school years in Missouri. She graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) School of Dentistry in 1993. Dr. Mie taught dental students as a teaching assistant in her 4th year then later worked as a clinical instructor in the Special Needs Patient Clinic and Pre-Clinical Prosthodontics Department for over 3 years. Additionally, Dr. Mie worked for other dental facilities including an esthetic/cosmetic dental office in Beverly Hills, Children’s Dental Center at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, community clinics for the underserved, and private dental offices before opening Narita Family Dental in 2001 with her sister, Dr. Maki Narita.
Besides her work in clinical dentistry, in 1997 Drs. Mie & Maki Narita founded Global Harmony Inc., an interpretation and translation services company, specializing in consecutive and simultaneous translation services for both English and Japanese speaking dentists at universities, conventions, meetings, as well as logistical services to dental seminars for the Japanese dentists.
Dr. Mie’s second love is music, including playing the piano and singing. When time allows, Dr. Mie enjoys playing golf, baking, gardening, and spending time with her husband and her adult children, whenever they have time away from their careers and college.