SPECIALTY IN PROSTHODONTICS

INCLUDING:
A. Reconstruction of the edentulous and partially edentulous mouth with implant fixtures, fixed or removable partial dentures, complete dentures and overdentures with and without

B. Restorative: utilizing and composite resin to restore complex restorations; onlays both metal and porcelain; Crowns both all porcelain and porcelain fused to metal;  Porcelain Laminates (Facings)

C. Maxillofacial: Reconstruction of both acquired and congenital defects including cleft palate and oncological conditions in both children and adults.

D. Temporomandibular Joint Disorders

E. Treatment of Patients with Eating Disorders: Bulimia

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS

1978-1997

LENOX HILL HOSPITAL
77th Street and Park Avenue New York,
New York

• Position: Senior Clinical Attending and Chief of Prosthodontics Service
• Responsibilities: Clinic instruction; Director of clinic operations; lectures in prosthodontics
• Committees: Admissions (Dental Residency Program) Research (with both dental and medicine)

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
1275 York Avenue New York, NY 10065.
1997-1984

• Position: Senior Clinical Attending
• Responsibilities: Clinic instruction; Patient  Treatments; Lectures in prosthodontics Theory and Laboratory

RESEARCH

TALAMANCA, COSTA RICA
1997-2014 ‘PROYECTO TALAMANCA’

(1) Leishmaniasis Tropicalis (Papalamoya)

(2) Prevalence of Oral Pathology Conditions among the Residents of the Talamanca Reserve

(3) Incidence of Edentulism among the Adult Population of Bribri and Cabecar Tribes

(4) Epidemiological Study of the Oral Health Component among the Indigenous Population in the Canton of Talamanca

(5) Caries prevalence in dierent age groups and genders

(6) Factors in malformation and dentition and malocclusion among the indigenous

ASOCIACIÓN PROYECTOS ESPECIALES DE SALUD REGION DE TALAMANCA
2014:

(1) Protocol and Fabrication of Prostheses for the Partially and Totally Edentulous, Bribri and Cabecar Indigenous Tribes Inhabiting the Talamanca Reserve in Costa Rica

(2) Epidemiological Studies of the edentulous population: Bribris and Cabecares

(3) Program for the Prevention of ECC in  Preschool Children

(4) Periodontal Disease in Preadolescents

LENOX HILL HOSPITAL: (1986-1994)
Longitudinal study of the ‘success’ of various implant treatment modalities applicable in the hospital population in NYC

BULIMIC TREATMENT ASSOCIATES:
(1986-1995)
Defining and establishing parameters, goals utilizing fixed, removable, implant prosthodontics treatments restoring mutilated dentition resulting from the condition of bulimia.

N.I.H. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH/ EASTMAN DENTAL CENTER/ UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY: (1975-77)
‘The Evaluation and Design of various Designs of Artificial Teeth and Chewing Eciency with Patients Using Complete Denture Prostheses.’

FEDERATION OF PROSTHODONTIC ORGANIZATIONS: (1974-77)
(1) Advanced Prosthodontic Survey: Survey of Attitudes of Postgraduate Prosthodontic Students
(2) Undergraduate Prosthodontic Education: Survey of Attitudes of Senior Dental Students

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE/ S.S. WHITE FELLOWSHIP
(1) Half Value layer and exposure studies: Eect of radiation from a dental unit on thyroid gland and optic cup of the eye.

(2) Construction of a reference overlay atlas including serial sectioned human skulls for the purpose of defining anatomical structures commonly obscured in dental views.

(Lateral Oblique, TMJ, Waters, Townes, Submental Vortex, etc.)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSIDAD LATINA DE COSTA RICA
(FACULTAD DE ODONTOLOGÍA)
1998-2012

(1) Professor of Prosthodontics: Clinic and Theoretical Courses 1998- 2012

(2) Appointed: Director of Postgraduate Prosthodontics

(3) Appointed: Director of Pasantia (Fellowship) in Prosthodontics

UNIVERSIDAD LATINOAMÉRICA DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA: (FACULTAD DE ODONTOLOGÍA)

2008-2009
Professor: (Post Graduate) Occlusion

UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA
(FACULTAD DE ODONTOLOGÍA)
1995-1998

Professor: Preclinical and Clinical Prosthodontics

LENOX HILL HOSPITAL

(DEPARTMENT OF PROSTHODONTICS)
1978-1997

Senior Clinical Attending Chief of Prosthodontic Service

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER 1997-1984

Clinical Attending in Maxillofacial Prosthodontics

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY 1972-1973

Honors Program, Dept. Of Removable Prosthodontics: Teaching Assistant, Preclinical Prosthodontics.

EDUCATION/ DEGREES

UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA:
(SAN PEDRO; FACULTAD DE ODONTOLOGÍA)
(1) Licenciado en Odontología 1996
(2) Especialidad en Prostodoncia 1996

EASTMAN DENTAL CENTER:
(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) 1985
Course of study for certification and proficiency: Osseointegrated Implants

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, GRADUATE  SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY:

(ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) 1974-1977
Master’s Program Dept. of Dental Science and Research MS Dental Research

EASTMAN DENTAL CENTER (ROCHESTER, NEW YORK) 1974-1977
Specialty Program Dept. of Postgraduate
Prosth- odontics Postgraduate education  under the supervi- sion of Dr. Allen A. Brewer Specialty Certification in Prosthodontics

WESTCHESTER COUNTY MEDICAL CEN- TER/ GRASSLANDS HOSPITAL (VALHA- LLA, NEW YORK)1973-1974
Rotating Internship: Dental Service Certification

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY (NEW YORK, NEW YORK)
1969-1973

Undergraduate Dental Education DDS

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 1963-1967
A.A. (Associate of Arts) 1965
B.S. (Bachelor of Science Major: Zoology) 1967

PRESENTATIONS

EASTERN PROSTHODONTIC SOCIETYALLEN A. BREWER CONFERENCE
(1) 1987: Occlusion and a Review of the
History of Tooth Forms in Removable Prosthodontics
(2) 1985: Moderator of Conference
(3) 1983: Artificial Teeth in Complete Dentures and Removable Partial Dentures

QUEENS DENTAL SOCIETY (QUEENS, NEW YORK)
1983: Artificial Teeth in Complete Dentures and Removable Partial Dentures

NU DENT DENTA LABORATORY (NEW YORK, NEW YORK)
1984-89 Didactic Program for practitioners and laboratory technicians.

GREATER NEW YORK DENTALMEETING (NEW YORK, NEW YORK)
(1) Table Clinic : Resilient Liners in Complete Dentures 1981
(2) The contraindications of Osseointegrated implants 1987
(3) Problem Solving and Trouble Shooting with Osseointegrated implants 1988
(4) Table Clinic and Essay Committee

GREATER NEW YORK ACADEMY OF PROSTHODONTICS (NEW YORK, NEW YORK)
(1) Table Clinic: Resilient Liners in Complete Dentures 1978
(2) Overdentures: Diagnosis and Applications 1981
(3) Use of Attachments in Atypical Rehabilitative Situations 1984

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER (NEW YORK, NEW YORK)
1997-1986: Lecture Series on Selected
Topics in Removable and Fixed Prosthodontics and their Application in Maxillofacial Prosthodontic Treatments

MIDTOWN DENTAL SOCIETY (NEW YORK, NEW YORK)
1980: Overdentures: A Means to Prevent the End.

STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (ROCHESTER, NEW YORK)
(1) Porcelain and Metal Bonding 1975
(2) Cardiovascular Eects as a Result from Use of Chemically Impregnated Retraction Cord in Fixed Prosthodontics 1976
(3) Investigations in Chewing Eciency in Complete Dentures

THE CARL O. BOUCHER CONFERENCE
(COLUMBUS, OHIO)
Table Clinic: Resilient Liners in Complete Dentures 1976

THE ROCHESTER STUDY CLUB (ROCHESTER, NEW YORK)
1975-1976: Esthetics and the Veneer Crown
Table Clinic: Resilient Liners in Complete Dentures

BOOTH DENTAL SOCIETY (OWEGO, NEW YORK)
Table Clinic: Resilient Liners in Complete Dentures

AMERICAN PROSTHODONTIC SOCIETY  (CHICAGO ILLINOIS)
Table Clinic: Resilient Liners in Complete Dentures

PUBLICATIONS

• ABORN, PETER S.: Undergraduate Education: Survey of Attitudes of Senior Dental Students. 1976, J Prosthet Dent: 35:1; 21
• ABORN, PETER S.: Advanced Prosthodontics Education: Survey of Graduate Students 1976, J Prosthet Dent 35:1; 47
• CONTRIBUTOR: Section on Dental Care: Siegel M., Brisman J., Weinshel M. Surviving an Eating Disorder. Harper and Row, New
  York, 1988.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Colegio Cirujano Dentistas de Costa Rica (1998-• International Association of Dental Research (1977-2000; 2012-)

• Eastern Prosthodontic Society (1979-

• Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics (1973-2012: Elected to Life Membership

• American College of Prosthodontics (1977- 2014 Elected to Life Membership

• American Dental Association 1973-1995)

• American Prosthodontic Society (1974-1977)

• The American College of Dental Radiology (1973-1978)

• First District Dental Society-A.D.A. (1977- 1995)

• Manhattan Dental Study Club (1977-1995)

• Perio-Prosthodontic Society (1977-1995)

LICENSES

• NEW YORK
• MASSACHUSETTS
• COSTA RICA

COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

Veterans of Foreign Wars: Commander of Post 6565; National Oce: Aid to the Commander In Chief V.F.W

PROYECTO TALAMANCA 2005-2014
(1) Founder and Director
(2) President of the Association

ASOCIACIÓN PROYECTOS ESPECIALES DE SALUD REGIÓN DE TALAMANCA 2014-PRESENT
A recognized and registered non-profit
Association established to develop special  projects to and support of oral health care to the Bribri and Cabecar tribes living on the Reserva de Talamanca.
(1) Founder and Director
(2) President of the Association
(3) Project Leader

• FORMAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ASSOCIATION OF BRIBRIS
• FORMAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ASSOCIATION OF CABECARES
• FORMAL RELATIONSHIP WITH CCSS (GOVERNMENT HEALTH SYSTEM)
• WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CANADIAN EMBASSY COSTA RICA
• WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH COLEGIO CIRUJANO DENTISTAS DE COSTA RICA
• FORMAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HENRY SCHEIN: GLOBAL NETWORK
  Donation Program

HONORS AND RECOGNITION

• CNN HEROES
• CANAL 7 -BUEN DIA COSTA RICA
• FERIA CULTURAL BRIBRI AND CABECAR TRIBES SURETKA
• AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PROSTHODONTICS GREATER NEW YORK ACADEMY OF PROSTHODONTICS NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF
  DENTISTRY
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