Journal of Oral Hygiene & Health
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Ray C Williams

Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine, New York, USA

Biography

 Ray C. Williams is Adjunct Professor of Periodontology at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry.  He received his DMD degree, with honors, from the University of Alabama School of Dentistry and his certificate in Periodontology and Oral Medicine from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He was a postdoctoral fellow in microbiology at the Forsyth Institute in Boston. Prior to UNC, he was Professor and dean of the School of Dental Medicine in Stony Brook, New York. Prior to that, he was the Thomas Straumann Distinguished Professor of Periodontology, Graduate Program Director and Chair of the Department of Periodontology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Before that he was Chair of the Department of Periodontology, Graduate Program Director and Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Education at the Harvard School of Dental medicine.Dr. Williams is a member of the American and International Associations of Dental Research, the American Dental Education Association, the American Academy of Periodontology and the American Dental Association.  He is a Fellow of both the American and the International College of Dentists. He is on the editorial board of seven journals.

Research Interest

Pharmacologic interception of the progression of periodontal disease, the risk for periodontitis, periodontitis as a risk for systemic conditions and wound healing around teeth and around dental implants.

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