Educational Objectives

• Learn about common dental diseases seen in CBCT images
• Learn about common mild non-dental diseases
• Learn about serious non-dental diseases
• Learn about the association between chronic dental diseases and cardiovascular disease (CVD)
• Learn how to communicate with physicians about the probable CVD dental risk factors you have detected

Douglas Benn, DDS, PhD, trained as a dentist at the London Hospital Medical College and worked for 10 years as a general dentist specializing in minor oral surgery and treatment of the severely handicapped. During this time, he completed a master’s degree in computer science. He then spent six years in the Department of General Dentistry and Public Health, University College London and was awarded a Ph.D. for investigating new methods for diagnosing caries and periodontal diseases. Following this, Dr. Benn trained as an oral and maxillofacial radiologist at Guy’s Hospital London and the Royal College of Radiologists (Diploma in Dental Radiology, Royal College of Radiologists, England).

In 1992, he was appointed a professor at the University of Florida. From 2000-2002 he was Editor-in-Chief of the peer reviewed journal Dentomaxillofacial Radiology. During 1996-2002, he led a team developing an automated caries risk assessment and treatment planning system based upon an electronic patient record.

In 2009 Dr. Benn was appointed professor of oral and maxillofacial radiology at Creighton University School of Dentistry, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

Between 2011-16 he developed a method for distinguishing non-cavitated from cavitated caries in bitewing radiographs. He has published over 50 peer reviewed research papers. He is the inventor on several patents.

He has a part-time radiology practice of reporting CBCT radiographs www.ReadCTs.com