Dr. Neil Greenberg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York.

He graduated from Public School 238 and attended Lincoln High School for two years.  He left Lincoln to embark on an extensive six month self-training course to master the art of orthodontics.

He began by straightening the teeth of small birds and ultimately uncrossed the tusks of an enormous African elephant.

He started his practice on humans in Hamden, Connecticut in 1966 and, except for several brief periods of institutionalization, has been there ever since, more or less.