About The Practice

Welcome to our practice and to visiting our web site. Our practice of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is dedicated to providing the patient with the most caring and highest quality of therapy that can be provided. It is our goal to provide our services not only in a caring and compassionate manner, but to provide the patient, and his relatives, with knowledge and concepts that will enable the patients to make educated judgements and decisions. To this end, the office has the most modern educational and computerized materials that will aid the patients in their consultations and to better understand what an Oral and Maxillofacial surgeron can do as part of the dental health team, and as a provder of total health care for the patients.

This office is dedicated to bringing to our patients the latest in equipment, technology and expertise. Since this priority is so important, Dr. Donald B. Lurie constantly attends continuing-education seminars and courses. In addition, the staff which consists of 3 R.N's, in addition to secretarial and management personnel, also attend continuing-education centers as we strive to obtain the goals that are pledged to our patient population.

Training / Education
The training of an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon is quite extensive. In Dr. Lurie's case, an additional 5 years of training was obtained following graduation from the Univsersity of Maryland Dental School. This included surgical residency at the Harlem Hospital (Columbia University) in New York, and didatic oral and maxillofacial surgery and medicine at the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. Following this, Dr. Lurie was chief-resident in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Strong Memorial Hospital of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. Continuing on, he was then appointed Chief of Oral Surgery at the 4756th USAF Hospital, Tyndal AFB, Panama City, Florida. After all these years, he finally returned home and started a private practice. Prior to private practice, Dr. Lurie presented for examination by the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and became a Fellow of the AAOMS. In 1998, he became a Life Fellow of the AAOMS. Many other credentials were earned by the doctor. In 1986, he became a Fellow of the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He is a Diplomate of the American Society of Osseointegration (dental implants) and a Diplomate of the International Congress of Implantology (1993.) Dr. Lurie is a past president of the Middle Atlantic Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and is currently President of the Greater Baltimore Implant Study Club.

This office is a full service Oral and Maxillofacial practice with particular interest in maintaining the masticatory function of the patient with reconstruction of the jaws via implants or augmentation(grafts) as needed. Wisdom tooth surgery, cancer surgery and screening, medical evaluations, trauma, as well as dentoalveolar surgery are an integral part of the practice.

It has been an interesting and mutually rewarding career between staff and patients. Patients have been referred locally and world-wide by fellow dentists, physicians and patients themselves. The interaction between staff and patients has been the most rewarding experience of all. Welcome to the FAMILY.

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