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Dr. J. Bruce Bavitz

Title: Professor and Chair, Dr. Merritt C. Pedersen Professor of Dentistry

Address
Room: 131
UNMC College of Dentistry
40th and Holdrege
Box 830740
Lincoln, NE 68583-0740


Surgical Specialties Department


Telephone: (402) 472-1314
Fax: (402) 472-5290
email: jbavitz@unmc.edu

Education:

• Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
• D.M.D. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• General Practice Residency The Graduate Hospital Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Allegheny General Hospital Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Teaching Responsibilities:

• Director/Initiator Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery Internship
• Director Senior Selective Hospital Dentistry
• Director OS 625
• Director DENT 640
• Director/Initiator DENT 661
• Co-Director Dentofacial Deformity Clinic
• Lecturer Orthognathic Surgery Seminar (Grad Ortho Students)
• Lecturer ARD 593
• Lecturer DID 842
• Lecturer DENT 855
• Coordinator Elective Dentistry Rotation
• Attending Dental Implant Screening Clinic
• Lecturer BIOS 150 Introduction to Dentistry (UNL)

Research Interests:

• Distraction osteogenesis and bone regeneration

Recent Publications:

• Bavitz, J.B. Dental management of patients with hypertension. In Dental Clinics of North America 50:547-62, 2006.
• Henriksen, B., Bavitz, B., Harn, S. Evaluation of bone thickness in the anterior hard palate relative to midsagittal orthodontic implants. Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants 18(4) 578-581, 2003.
• Bavitz, J.B., Payne, J., Dunning D., et al. The use of distraction osteogenesis to induce new suprabony periodontal attachment in the beagle dog. Int J of Periodontics Restorative Dent 20:6, 596-603, 2000.

Service Activities:

• College of Dentistry Continuing Education presenter