What Can Doom Your Implants? Uncovering the Risks of Implant Failure

Dr. Jon Suzuki has a Presidential Appointment as Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine and Professor of Periodontology and Oral Implantology in the School of Dentistry at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. USA. He also serves as Chairman and Program Director of the Department of Periodontology and Oral Implantology and Associate Dean for Graduate Education at Temple University. He has been Dean at the University of Pittsburgh for a decade, CEO of the University faculty practice plan, and Chief of Hospital Dentistry.

Dr. Suzuki received his D.D.S. from Loyola University of Chicago and Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He completed an N.I.H. Fellowship in Immunology at the University of Washington in Seattle, and a Clinical Certificate in Periodontics at the University of Maryland. His MBA (emphasis on International Affairs) is from the Katz Graduate School of Business of the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Suzuki has recently been appointed as Chairman of the Food and Drug Administration Dental Products Panel, Silver Spring, MD. With a term ending in October 31st, 2018. He is on the faculty of the US Navy National Naval Medical Command, Bethesda, MD, and also holds Professorships at Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, the University of Maryland, and the University of Oklahoma.

He served as Chairman of the American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs, Chicago, and continues to serve as a consultant to the Scientific Affairs Council, Practice Management Council, and Commission on Dental Accreditation. Dr. Suzuki served on the National Institutes of Health National Dental Advisory Research Council, and numerous NIH Study Sections, Bethesda, MD. Dr. Suzuki has current hospital appointments at the Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, PA and the Veterans' Affairs Medical Centers.

He is a fellow of the American and International College of Dentists, a Boarded Specialist Microbiologist and former Board Examiner of the American College of Microbiology, a Diplomate and current Board Examiner of the International Congress of Oral Implantology, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology.

Dr. Suzuki is the current Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Supreme Chapter of Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the national Honorary Dental Society, and has served in this position almost a quarter of a century.

His honors include being named "Alumnus of the Year", Loyola University of Chicago, "Alumnus of the Year", Illinois Wesleyan University, "Recognized Alumnus in Biological Sciences", Illinois Institute of Technology, and "Faculty of the Year", University of Maryland. Dr. Suzuki won 1st place, Orban Prize Competition of the American Academy of Periodontology and won 1st place in the ADA/Dentsply SCADA Table Clinic Competition.
He is in private practice limited to hospital periodontics in Philadelphia.

Dr. Suzuki has published over 150 papers, chapters, and symposia, 200+ abstracts, and 1 textbook in Medical Technology.