Mark Davis is well known to the Upper Pinellas County Dental Association, having been a UPCDA member since 1968 and serving as our President in 1976-77. This is his 50th year in dentistry in Clearwater.
Mark Davis regarded dentistry as both his vocation and avocation. He loved to work and only missed one day in 45 years of practice. Mark's goal was to continue working as long as he was able and hoped to practice at least as long as Dr. James Hayslett.
Mark Davis's enormous surprise in life was the occurrence of extremely unusual medical events suddenly occurring near the end of 2013. He was never able to return to practice to chase Jim Hayslett's longevity of practice.
One of the thought provoking questions to be discussed on January 17th asks, "what would happen in your life if tomorrow was the last day you were able to work as a clinician?"
In past conversations with Mark, I know he is willing to share with us many of the lessons he learned in 46 years of clinical dentistry that contribute to dental practice and patient relationships at the highest professional level.
He placed his first dental implant in 1971 and immediately realized implant dentistry offered patients solutions to dental problems that conventional treatment could not solve.
However, the profession was not ready for implant dentistry and frequently opposed the notion of dental implants being anything other than bad treatment performed by charlatans.
Mark relayed to me he knew it would be a very long time before implant dentistry would be accepted as the treatment of choice for many dental problems.
The changes in treatment from 1968 to today, 2018, are amazing...and-
He predicts the next 20+ years will be exponentially even more amazing and full of opportunity for dentistry and our patients.
Mark is a member of many organizations including the American Dental Association tiered membership and to list a few groups important to his career development:
American Academy of Restorative Dentistry
American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics
American Academy of Implant Dentistry, Honored Fellow
Alabama Implant Study Group
Society for the Preservation of Oral Health
American Academy of Dental Anesthesiology
American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry, Diplomate and Past President 2000
Mark is the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Aaron Gerskoff Award from the American Academy of Implant Dentistry for significant contributions to the development of the discipline of implant dentistry.
And...
In 2015, Dr. Davis was named by the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry as The Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, and is only the 13th UKCD Alumnus to receive this recognition in the 50-year history of the college of Dentistry.
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