DAVID R. KERR, D.D.S.
We are committed to excellence in dentistry for over 20 years.
Our goal is to provide you with the highest quality care, focusing on your current needs as well as your long term health. In order to make this goal a reality, we will work together so you can understand your oral health. On your first visit I offer a meeting with you to assure that your needs are met.
I practice cosmetic, family, and implant dentistry out of Portland, Maine.
Dr. Kerr graduated from the University of the Pacific in 1978 in San Francisco having gone to St. Lawrence University for his undergraduate studies. He completed a General Practice Residency in New York City at the Long Island Jewish Hillside Medical Center. While there he developed a new technique for splinting traumatized teeth.
Following his residency he went to the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine where he was an associate professor in the Department of Form and Function of the Masticatory System.
Concurrently, he obtained a Masters in business from the Wharton School's Leonard Davis Health Institute Health Care Program, which focuses on health care management and policy issues and majored in decision science, graduating in 1981. He then went to the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine and was responsible for clinical outpatient clinics and taught medical and dental students in Biomedical Statistics and Clinical Decision Making. He has published papers in the field of decision science and computers and sports trauma.
He came to Portland in 1985, taking over Dr. Samuel Cope's practice.
He completed a postgraduate program in 1993 in the surgical placement and prosthetic treatment of dental implants from The Boston Seminars in Implant Dentistry directed by the former chair of the Department of Implant Dentistry at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Kerr has always focused on esthetics as well as function in dentistry feeling that they are part the whole. He has taken numerous courses in esthetic and functional dentistry as well as the "art" of a smile. In 1987 before esthetic dentistry was emphasized, he had custom shaded filling materials made for him to use.
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