2023 SPEAKERS

Clark Brinton,
Clark Brinton, DDS
Clark Brinton graduated OHSU School of Dentistry as 2013 class valedictorian after training under Dr. Stanley Malamed in IV sedation during 3rd and 4th year. He served four years in the National Health Service Corps across rural New Mexico where he honed oral surgery skills and moonlighted providing IV sedation, 3rd molar and dental implant services. Clark practices in Portland, Oregon where he co-founded the Arvory Group which owns and manages 10 dental offices and a dental marketing group. Clark co-owns Hero Dental Lab to meet the growing and complex implant restorative needs inside and outside his practices. He continues as an unrecovered CE addict, constantly attending and teaching implant courses.

Scott Froum, DDS
Scott Froum, DDS
Scott Froum is a board certified periodontist who received his BA from Amherst College in Amherst, MA with a major in biology. He received his DDS from the State University of New York Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine where he graduated with honors. He continued his dental training in the post graduate periodontal department at the State University of New York Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine and received his periodontal certificate. He currently is a clinical assistant professor at the State University of New York- Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine in the Department of Periodontics. He is chief editor of the online journal Perio-Implant Advisory. He is on the editorial board for Dental Economics. He maintains a private practice in New York City, NY.

Richard Miron,
Richard Miron, DDS, MSc, PhD
Dr. Richard Miron is currently lead educator and researcher at Advanced PRF Education and an Adjunct Visiting Faculty in the department of Periodontology in Bern, Switzerland where he completed his PhD studies since 2009. He has currently published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and lectures internationally on many topics relating to growth factors, bone biomaterials and guided bone regeneration. For the past 4 years, Dr. Miron has been recognized by Dentistry Today as being one of the top 100 CE providers in the country and the youngest to ever make the list. He is also the top ranked researcher on Platelet-Rich Fibrin therapy as per Expertscape independent review. He has recently been awarded many recent international prizes in dentistry and is widely considered as one of the top contributors to implant dentistry having won the ITI Andre Schroeder Prize, the IADR Young Investigator of the Year in the field of Implant Dentistry as well as the IADR Socransky Research award in the field of Periodontology (2020). He has written 5 textbooks widely distributed in regenerative dentistry including his best-seller in 2019 titled: “Next Generation Biomaterials for Bone and Periodontal Regeneration” and “Understanding Platelet Rich Fibrin” in 2021.

Steven Pigliacelli
Steven Pigliacelli MDT, CDT
Steven Pigliacelli, MDT, CDT, is the owner and vice president of Marotta Dental Studio, and has more than 30 years’ experience as a dental implant specialist. He is a faculty instructor in postgraduate prosthodontics at New York University, College of Dentistry, in the department of prosthodontics. He is the founder and past president of the Association of Innovative Dentistry, manages Marotta Dental Studio, and is the technical liaison between the dentist and the laboratory. He also directs the lab’s GPR and Prosthetic Resident Rotation. Contact him at marottadental.com or (866) 627-6882.

Alan Yassin
Alan Yassin DDS, MS, MSD
Dr. Alan Yassin is dual-trained in periodontics and oral and maxillofacial surgery. He obtained his dental degree in 2001 from Aleppo University, followed by four years of extensive oral and maxillofacial training at Damascus Hospital. He completed his specialty training in periodontology and a master’s degree in oral science from the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Yassin is a fellow of the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and a diplomate of the German Board of Oral Implantology DGZI. He serves as a reviewer for many academic journals. He is an affiliate clinical assistant professor at the University of Washington, as well as the course director and founder of the Washington Academy of General Dentistry’s implantology program. He lectures on implants and advanced esthetics/periodontal plastic surgery. His private practice in Seattle is limited to periodontics, oral surgery, and implant dentistry.