- 1983
Fort Wayne, and a chair
He was hit in the mouth playing baseball and hockey as a boy and spent years in a dental chair. His mentor, Dr. Robert Stetzel, is the reason he chose the profession: to make that experience better for the next person. Indiana University, then the IU School of Dentistry, class of 1983. Private practice in Indianapolis from that year.
- 1984
Teaching, early
A clinical instructor at the IU School of Dentistry from 1984 to 1989, while building the practice.
- 1997
Las Vegas
Clinical instructor at the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies from 1997, associate clinical director in 2002, Clinical Director from 2003 to 2005, on faculty full time. He helped run the institute’s first international programme in 2000, for twenty-three dentists from Australia, and was made an LVI Master in full-mouth reconstruction, one of fewer than twenty clinicians worldwide at the time.
- 2007
Occlusion
Director of Occlusion at the Center for Exceptional Practices from 2007 to 2013: TMJ, neuromuscular dentistry and sleep, taught to dentists across the United States and Canada. Twenty-one published articles and a chapter in Dental Clinics of North America along the way.
- 2009
Sleep, and the turn
Diplomate of the Academy of Clinical Sleep Disorders Disciplines in 2009, the only one in Indiana. Certified Homeoblock provider in 2010. The practice narrowed to the thing the profession is not trained to see: the position of the cranial bones, and what it does to breathing, the jaw and the neck.
- 2026
The living skull
Diplomate of the American Sleep and Breathing Academy and a member of its Credentialing Board. The Living Skull, published in May 2026. Two days teaching the Open Loop Cricket at the ASBA Study Club in Phoenix in August. And a place in the cast of Bye Ol’ Dentistry, the documentary on biological dentistry, filmed this year for release in early 2027.
The cosmetic years
Two decades of veneers and full-mouth reconstruction, taught to dentists from around the world, are still in the hands. In the full-mouth cases he documented, eyes became more symmetrical and chins stopped deviating. Those cases are the bridge between the cosmetic years and what he does now.
Married to Pamela for four decades. Three children, grandchildren, a bicycle and a golf bag. Some days he answers the office phone himself.