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A Periodontist Discusses Gum Disease and Its Prevention with Dr. William Levine

29 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, the periodontist (the managing partner) describes his practice as a multidisciplinary dental center that combines active patient care with research. The practice includes an in‑house laboratory, two additional periodontists, a prosthodontist specializing in oral reconstruction, and an oral medicine department that handles oral pathologies, oral cancers, and systemic diseases that manifest in the mouth. He outlines his role focusing on infrastructure, bone, gums, and teeth, while the prosthodontist handles crowns and restorative work, and the oral medicine team addresses non‑traditional dental conditions.

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What's your current practice look like? Seeing patients, research? So it's a combination. We have our own laboratory, but we have a very active dental practice. It's a multidisciplinary practice. It's my— I am the managing partner of the practice, but I have two other periodontists who work for us, and we have a prosthodontist that's a specialist in oral reconstruction. So in a sense, I do the infrastructure and the bone and the gums and the teeth, and then he builds the crowns and the work that goes on top of that that the patient uses. And we have also an oral medicine department which deals with oral pathologies, different cancers in the mouth, different other diseases that present inside the mouth that are not classic dental diseases, but simply systemic diseases that manifest themselves in the mouth.