Dr. George Beck, D.D.S, P.C.

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. George Beck is native to Pueblo, Colorado where he has been practicing for the past 30 years. Dr. Beck graduated from Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska providing expertise in general dentistry and emphasizing implantology. His implant practice has grown over the past 15 years to make up approximately 75% of his practice.

Dr. Beck graduated from Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska providing expertise in general dentistry and specializing in implantology. Dr. Beck has lectured and provided technical training locally and abroad. He was recently awarded Diplomate status with the American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry, May 1999. He also has Diplomate Status within the International Congress of Oral Implantologists, and is a member of the The American Academy of Implant Dentistry. Dr. Beck has been on the staff at the Misch International Implant Institute for the past 12 years. Dr. Beck has also been selected as a lifetime member of the Who's Who in Dentistry.

Dr. Beck was allowed to place the first two implants ever done at Creighton University, because of his preceptorship training in periodontics and oral surgery, including repair of 12 fractured mandibles. Those implants were placed by Dr Beck in 1971 as a dental student. He has received training from implanfcologists from both the USA and Europe including; Dr. Daniel Patrick, Dr. Ralph Roberts and especially Dr. Hilt Tatum and Dr. Carl Misch at their dental office giving hands on, one on one, training in implant, block intraoral grafts and iliac crest grafts. In 1987 Dr Beck went through the Misch Institute.

Dr. Beck has approximately 3500 to 4000 hours of A.G.D. approved courses, including 8 days of I.V. Sedation, 25 days of the Denary S.O.S. occlusal course, to include many hours of hands on training in Crown and Bridge and Periodontics. Dr Beck receives a minimum of 150 hours and as much as 500 hours per year through teaching and study at The Misch Implant Institute. This training includes all phases of implant dentistry, (i.e., surgery, prosthetics, pharmacology, hygiene, etc.) Dr Beck is also involved with research in the development of the BioHorizons implant and one of the seven centers that is participating in the FDA five year study.

Dr. Beck is a co-author on THE BIOHORIZON DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEMS:Stage I Implant Placement Surgery and Stage II AbutmentConnection A Preliminary Report, March 1997, and A BONE QUALITYBASED IMPLANT SYSTEM: A Preliminary Report of Stage I and StageII, IMPLANT DENTISTRY/VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1 1998. Dr. Beck also published an article in the September 1998 issue of Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry.

He also co authored an article in Dentistry Today, March 1998 issue, RIDGE AUGMENTATION FOR TREATMENT OF SEVERE PREMAXILLARY ATROPHY: A Surgical Technique and GRAFTING FRESH EXTRACTION SOCKETS: A case study. He also helped in the design for the delivery system for Perma Ridge R in reference to this same article. In 1999 he lectured with the Perio Institute on bone grafting for the general dentist. Prior to dentistry Dr Beck was a plumber and pipe fitter for seven years. He attributes his analytical, mechanical, and engineering view point in Implant Dentistry to his previous years as a plumber and his involvement with the construction business. Dr. Beck is married to Cynthia and has a 7 year old daughter, Sable

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