is an Affiliated Adjunct Clinical Professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry. He is currently the Editor of the AGD journals General Dentistry and AGD Impact, and the editor of IMPLANTS TODAY, the implant publications of DENTISTRY TODAY. He is a Past-President of the Michigan Academy of General Dentistry. He received his DDS from University of Detroit Mercy Dental School and his Mastership in Biochemistry from Wayne State University School of Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry, the International Congress of Oral Implantologists and the American Society of Osseointegration. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry and received his Mastership in the Academy of General Dentistry. He has placed over 20,000 dental implants and published 270 articles on the surgical and prosthetic phases of implant dentistry, over 123 dental editorials and was a contributor to 2 textbooks.