PRESENTERS

Dr Juan Gonzalez is a Board Certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon. Over more than two decades he’s practiced full scope oral and maxillofacial surgery to include complex dentoalveolar surgery, third molar removal, orthognathic surgery, facial trauma, dental implants, facial cosmetic surgery and temporomandibular joint surgery. Dr. Gonzalez is also highly trained in all aspects of anesthesia and has performed over 15,000 moderate to deep sedations. For the last 6 years he’s concentrated solely on full arch surgery (All on X) procedure, especially the severe bone loss cases requiring special techniques like zygomatic, pterygoid and trans nasal implants. He’s one of the most experienced zygomatic and pterygoid specialists in the world. He’s been recognized as one of the ZYGOPRO specialists, only 28 people in the world have had this recognition. Dr Gonzalez also travels internationally lecturing and teaching on advanced dental implant techniques. He has contributed chapters to several books and is also an editorial member of the Journal of Implants and Advanced Clinical Dentistry, one of the largest and most prestigious dental journals.

Dr Juan Gonzalez was born in Spain and raised in Puerto Rico. After finishing dental school, he completed a one year hospital based General Practice Residency and was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army. While in the Army, Dr. Gonzalez completed his four year Oral and Maxillofacial training at Brooke Army Medical Center. He attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and after 12 years of active duty transferred to the Air Force Reserves where he retired with over 20 years of combined service. While in the Air Force, Dr Gonzalez served as the Chief of Professional Services directly supervising 6 physicians and was faculty of the oral and maxillofacial surgery program. He’s also been a highly sought educator helping train dozens of surgery residents and dentists.

When not taking care of patients, Dr. Gonzalez remains active by traveling with his wife and three daughters, flying, shooting, hunting, wakeboarding, running half marathons barefoot and drinking wine with friends.