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Robert A. Faiella

Robert A. Faiella DMD, MBA, MA

Dentistry, Leadership, Periodontics and Periodontology
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Dr. Faiella is the former Chief Dental Officer and current Advisor at Overjet, Past-President of the American Dental Association, and Past-Chairman and Director of ADA Business Enterprises, Inc., the for-profit subsidiary of the American Dental Association. He maintains a private practice limited to Periodontics and Dental Implants in Osterville and Duxbury, Massachusetts. In addition, he currently serves as Vice President of the American Board of Periodontology, Treasurer of the American College of Dentists, as well as on the MIT Sloan Alumni Board and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine Board of Fellows.

Dr. Faiella received his pre-doctoral education from Villanova University, receiving two Bachelor of Science degrees, and his D.M.D degree from Fairleigh Dickinson no University School of Dental Medicine. He received his graduate training in Periodontology as an NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, as well as a Master of Medical Science degree from Harvard Medical School, and a Master of Business Administration from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.

He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, and a Fellow of the American College of Dentists, the International College of Dentists, the Pierre Fauchard Academy, the Academy of Osseointegration, and the International Team for Implantology.

Dr. Faiella is a former faculty in post-doctoral periodontics at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He has lectured nationally and internationally on topics in periodontics and implant surgical techniques and has published on a variety of issues related to periodontal and implant surgical applications.

Dr. Faiella received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 2013. He has also been invited to deliver the Commencement Address to eight Schools of Dental Medicine over the past 12 years.

He has served on numerous councils and committees within the dental profession on the national, constituent, and component levels, and is a Past-President of the Massachusetts Dental Society, former ADA First District Trustee, and past General Chair of the Yankee Dental Congress.