Dr. David Rathke opened our dental practice in 1981. He earned his Fellowship in the Academy of General Dentistry in 1998 after earning his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1980 at the top five nationally rated UT Health Science Center at San Antonio School of Dentistry, where he was chosen “the student most proficient in anesthesiology.” He is also a third-generation alumnus of Sam Houston State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1976 with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry. Although born and raised elsewhere in Texas, Dr. Rathke graduated from Huntsville High School in 1972, and was in the top 10% of his class.

He was a member of the American Dental Association, the Texas Dental Association, the Academy of General Dentistry, the Brazos Valley District Dental Society, The Houston-Conroe-Huntsville Implant Study Group, the International Association for Functional Orthodontics, and the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Rathke was happily married to Pam Ryan Rathke for more than 37 years.

Outside of dentistry, Dr. Rathke had a very wide variety of interests, including Amateur Radio, electronics and computers, astronomy, woodworking and metal machining, genealogy, history (especially Texas history), and music.