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Michael Mills, D.M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Mills is a Clinical Associate Professor with teaching responsibilities in the Postdoctoral Division of the Department of Periodontics, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Before joining the faculty at UTHSCSA in 2000, Colonel Mills completed a distinguished 30-year career in the Air Force. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Chairman and Program Director of the United States Air Force Periodontics Residency at Wilford Hall Medical Center from 1993 to 2000. He also held appointments as the Chief Consultant in Periodontics to the USAF Surgeon General and Special Consultant to the USAF Assistant Surgeon General for Dental Services. Dr. Mills received his dental degree (DMD) from the University of Alabama School of Dentistry in 1970 followed by a one- year General Practice Residency at Eglin USAF Regional Hospital in Florida. From 1977 to 1980, he received his specialty training at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, Texas and completed requirements for the Master of Science degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston.

            Dr. Mills is a Diplomate and former Director and Chair of the American Board of Periodontology (2003-2009). He served as an examiner and consultant for the ABP from 2010 to 2019 and is currently a faculty member of the LSU Perio Review Course. From 2014 to 2018, he held the position as the Periodontics Commissioner to the Commission On Dental Accreditation. He is a member of the American Academy of Periodontology, American Board of Periodontology, American Dental Association, Texas Dental Association, Southwest Society of Periodontists, and San Antonio District Dental Society. He has authored or co-authored 33 scientific articles and three textbook chapters. He served as a reviewer for the 1996 World Workshop in Periodontics authoring a section on Anxiety; as a section participant on Periodontal Regeneration in the 2003 Contemporary Science Workshop; as a participant on the 2014 AAP Workshop on Regeneration; as co-chair of the AAP’s 2017 BEC on LASERs; and, as a participant in the 2017 World Workshop on the Classification of Periodontal and Peri-implant Disease. His expertise and interests cover a wide range of clinical periodontics and dental implantology with particular interest in osseous surgery and surgical anatomy.