Dr. Richards was born and raised in Clearwater, Florida. He grew up playing beach volleyball and fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and attended Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.
After a couple of years playing volleyball up and down the east coast, he started dental school at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He traveled to Hawaii to practice general dentistry before starting his orthodontic residency in San Antonio, Texas.
During his 3 year residency in Texas, Dr. Richards gave orthodontic lectures and taught courses to dental students, general dentists and dental specialists. He specialized in using the same SPEED hi-tech System braces that are used at Coastal Carolina Orthodontics.
Dr. Richards and his wife, Rebecca, a Morehead City native, have two young children and are thrilled to be back in the Carolinas.