Volunteerism leads dentist to AIDS fund-raiser.

Dentist Kevin Terrell set up private practice in Plano in 1994, but by the next year he was searching for something more fulfilling. He began offering his services at Stewpot, a homeless shelter in Dallas.

"I would go into the homeless shelters and they would be appreciative just to have a tooth pulled or a cavity filled," he said. "I found it to be more challenging than what I did in private practice all week. So I quit private practice and started working for dental programs in Dallas that treat indigent patients."

He divided his time between the AIDS clinic at Parkland Health and Hospital System, Amelia Court and the Nelson-Tebedo Dental Clinic, a …