John Timothy Wright DDS, MS

Dr. Wright currently serves as interim chairman of the Department of Endodontics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry. He is a professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, and is a former chairman of the department.

Dr. Wright completed his D.D.S. degree from West Virginia University and went on to pursue his pediatric dentistry residency and a National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship in Caries Research at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, prior to joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Wright has authored more than 100 publications and his research focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of developmental defects in teeth resulting from hereditary and environmental condition as well as and understanding normal tooth development.

Dr. Wright has served as chair for the American Dental Association’s and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry’s Council on Scientific Affairs and maintains an active private practice that includes providing care to patients with special medical and dental health care needs.