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In our efforts to provide the highest quality and most relevant continuing education programs to our audience of Dental professional, UNLV has assembled and continues to seek out the brightest and most innovative Dental professionals. The following section provides details about each of our program faculty as well as a direct links to the program or courses authored by each faculty member.
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Frank S. Drongowski, DDS
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Dr. Frank Drongowski received his DDS degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966. He completed a residency in Oral Maxillofacial Surgery at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio and Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Drongowski was in private practice from 1971-1983. He then served in the Air Force retiring as a Colonel in 2001. He has held faculty positions at Case Western Reserve University, the University of Southern California School of Dentistry, the University of California School of Medicine in San Diego, the Louisiana State University Schools of Dentistry and Medicine and the U.S. Air Force Residency Programs.
Dr. Drongowski is a Diplomate, American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology, a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, and American Dental Society of Anesthesia.
Dr. Drongowski has lectured extensively to local, state and national dental groups and lectures in the Continuing Education Department at the Louisiana State University School of Dentistry. He is currently a clinical instructor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Dental Medicine and has a part-time private practice.
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Edward Herschaft, DDS
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Dr. Edward E. Herschaft received his BA degree from CUNY’s Queens College in New York City and a DDS from West Virginia University School of Dentistry in 1970.
He completed a residency in oral and maxillofacial pathology at the Medical University of South Carolina and received a Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of New Orleans.
Dr. Herschaft is a Professor Emeritus at the Medical University of South Carolina College of Dental Medicine and is currently Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Nevada - Las Vegas (UNLV) School of Dental Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Herschaft serves as a forensic dental consultant to the Clark County (Las Vegas) Nevada Coroner’s Office.
He is a 1998 recipient of the West Virginia University, School of Dentistry Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award.
Dr. Herschaft is a Diplomate of the American Boards of Oral Medicine and Forensic Odontology and a Fellow of the American College of Dentists, International College of Dentists, American Academy of Forensic Sciences and Pierre Fauchard Academy.
He has published and presented extensively in the United States and internationally on the subjects of the relationship between oral and systemic health, oral and maxillofacial pathology and forensic dentistry.
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Mark W. Montgomery, DMD, FACE
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Dr. Montgomery maintains a practice devoted to reconstructive and aesthetic dentistry in West Linn, Oregon, near Portland. He was the founder of the Occlusion and Full Mouth courses at PacLive. Dr Montgomery's enthusiasm and ability to transfer knowledge in a way that is easily understood has made him one of the most requested speakers in the profession these days.
He is the co-founder of the Cascade Aesthetic Masters study club in Oregon. He is also one of the first and few General Dentists on the AlignTech Institute faculty. He has trained thousands of dentists in the Clear Essentials I and II courses for Invisalign clear aligner orthodontic therapy and has given many advanced study clubs on this topic.
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Ron Ritsco, DMD, MS, Cert. Pros, FACE
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Dr. Ron Ritsco is a specialist in Prosthodontics, graduated from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, as a specialist in Prosthodontics and earning a Masters Degree of Science in Prosthodontics from the School of Biomedical Graduate Sciences. A Prosthodontist, is specialized in the restoration and replacement of teeth and requires an additional three years of training beyond a general dentist.
Dr. Ritsco has published extensively in several scientific journals and has been honored with multiple achievement awards as a result. Due to his advanced training and expertise, he has lectured and taught dentists internationally on many facets of advanced dentistry including implants, aesthetic smile design, full mouth rehabilitation and the study of TMD.
Dr. Ritsco is most proud however of his private practice and his ability to perform life-changing dentistry for his patients right here in Houston. His unique ability allows him to care for smiles of all ages from prevention to full mouth restoration, giving his patients and their families the utmost confidence that they are entrusting their smile and health to a specialist.
He has hand selected his professional team to care for his valued patients from routine hygiene visits to the most the most complex treatment, that share his same values of achieving a patient's optimum health, comfort and trust.
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