MEET OUR DENTIST

Dr. Arthur Dean attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, graduating with his Doctor of Medical Dentistry degree in 1978. He subsequently performed a one-year Hospital Residency at Albert Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia. It was here that he received his first advanced training in the treatment of TMJ disorders, headaches and facial pain.

In 1979, he began a two-year Periodontal Residency at Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry, receiving a specialty certificate in Periodontics in 1981. He has practiced periodontics and implantology in Groton since 1981. The treatment of TMJ and facial pain disorders has been expanded with the addition of physical therapy services for pain and headache relief.

Dr. Dean has been active in the New London County Dental Society. He was an officer on the executive committee for nine years and was the President of the Society in 1995. For eight years, he was director of Continuing Education. He has served on the Dental Insurance Committee of the Connecticut State Dental Society and is a life-long member of the Connecticut Dental Society.

He is active in the Connecticut Society of Periodontists, a group of periodontal specialists throughout the state. He was an officer in the society for many years and  its president in 1997. He is a member of the CSDA, ADA and American Academy of Periodontists.