Dr. Nicole Gange Grathwol grew up in Itasca, Illinois where she spent the majority of her childhood in the same home. She went to Driscoll Catholic High School in Addison (touchy subject, her school closed one year after she graduated and she still hasn’t mentally recovered). She decided leaving the state just wasn’t for her so she stuck around and did her undergraduate training at DePaul University and called Lincoln Park her home for four years. Still not quite ready to spread her wings, she decided to attended Midwestern University in Downers Grove, Illinois for dental school. This is where she claims to have spent a majority of her time playing hard to get from Dr. Cory (he sees things very differently).

In a decision nearly more shocking than Lebron James leaving Cleveland for Miami, Dr. Nicole moved to Cleveland, Ohio where she completed her Masters of Science in Orthodontics. She fell in love with Lake Erie with a little help from Dr. Cory. They spent their free time at Cleveland Indians games and eating their way through Little Italy and every ice cream parlor Northeast Ohio has to offer.