Founder & Director of the Center For Endodontics
Center For Endodontics
University of WA; Boston University
One of dentistry’s most respected endodontic clinicians and educators, British born Dr. John West is the founder and director of the Center for Endodontics in Tacoma, Washington where he and his sons, Jason and Jordan, are in private practice. John West received his DDS from the University of Washington where he is an Affiliate Professor. He earned his MSD in endodontics at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, where he was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award. He mentors the world’s only stand-alone four day mini-endodontic residency program at the Interdisciplinary Dental Education Academy (IDEA) in San Francisco, CA. John is a clinical visionary, an inventor, a teacher, an author, and an advocate for any dentist who wants to experience the successful possibilities of endodontics in his or her practice. He coauthored Obturation of the Radicular Space with Dr. John Ingle in Ingle’s 1994 and 2002 editions of Endodontics and was senior author of Cleaning and Shaping the Root Canal System in Cohen and Burns 1994 and 1998 Pathways of the Pulp. He has authored Endodontic Predictability in Dr. Michael Cohen’s 2008 Quintessence text Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning: Principles, Design, Implementation, and Michael Cohen’s 2010 Quintessence text Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning Volume II: Comprehensive Case Studies. He is lead author of Esthetic Management of Endodontically Treated Teeth in Dr. Ronald Goldstein’s 2018 third edition of Esthetics in Dentistry. John serves on the editorial advisory boards for: The Journal of Esthetic and Restorative Dentistry, The Journal of Microscope Enhanced Dentistry, Dentistry Today, and is associate editor for Endodontic Practice/US.
Friday, April 12
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM