Dick S. Barendregt PhD, MSc, DDS

Dick Barendregt, PhD, MSc, DDS finished dental school in 1988 at the Rijksuniversiteit van Groningen. He worked as a dentist in the Royal Dutch Navy in several private practices for a period of 5 years. In 1991 he started his Master of Science training in periodontology at the University of Amsterdam. After finishing his training in 1994 he worked as a periodontist in 2 referral clinics restricted to periodontology.

In 1996 he founded his own clinic in Rotterdam. In his clinic, he works as a specialist in periodontology and implantology. For the last 20 years, the emphasis on inpatient treatment has been on interdisciplinary planning (Proclin Rotterdam) together with endodontists, orthodontists, prosthetic dentists, dental technicians, and oral surgeons.

From 1995 to 2001 Dick Barendregt was on the board of the Dutch Society of Periodontology (NVvP) as treasurer. Since 2017 he is chairman of the Advisory Board of the Dutch Institute on Guidelines in Dentistry. Dick Barendregt received November 4th, 2009 his Ph.D. degree on his thesis “Probing around teeth” and was appointed on July 1st, 2019 as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Periodontology, Adams School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina. He also lectures at both national and international meetings.