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JEFFREY D. BENNETT, D.M.D.

Professor and Chair, Department of Oral Surgery and Hospital Dentistry

 
Dr. Jeffrey Bennett completed a 2 year residency in anesthesia from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1986 and a residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery from the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in 1990. He became professor and chair of the Department of Oral Surgery and Hospital Dentistry in January 2004 after spending 12 years on the faculty of the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine.  He is a Diplomate of both the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (ABOMS) and the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology and a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) and the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA). He is active in organized dentistry and has served in many leadership positions and is a regularly invited speaker at national and international meetings. He has numerous publications and has edited both texts and clinics. Current positions include anesthesia section editor for the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, member of the Executive Committee of the AAOMS Faculty Section, member of the AAOMS Committee on Residency Accreditation, anesthesia section chair of the OMSSAT (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Self Assessment Test), and board examiner for ABOMS. A representative list of past positions includes: President of the Connecticut Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, President of the ADSA, and President of the OMFS section of the American Association of Dental Research (AADR).