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Brian Mealey, D.D.S.

Clinical Professor

Dr. Brian Mealey is a Clinical Professor. He was formerly the Graduate Program Director and Director of the Specialist Division in the Department of Periodontics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Dental School (until 2021). He received his DDS in 1983 from UTHSCSA, his MS degree from UTHSCSA in 1990, and his certificate in Periodontics in 1990 from Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Mealey served over 21 years on active duty in the United States Air Force, including positions as the Chairman of the Department of Periodontics at Wilford Hall Medical Center, the Program Director of the U.S. Air Force Periodontics Residency, and the Chief Military Consultant in Periodontics to the Air Force Surgeon General. Dr. Mealey has published extensively in the scientific literature, with an emphasis on inter-relationships between oral and systemic health. He is co-editor and author of the textbooks Periodontics: Medicine, Surgery and Implants (2004, Elsevier Publishing), and Periodontal Medicine (2000, B.C. Decker Publishing). Dr. Mealey is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. He has served organized dentistry at regional and national levels for many years. Dr. Mealey was previously a Director of the American Board of Periodontology and is currently an Examiner for the Board. He has also served as a Trustee of the American Academy of Periodontology and as President of the Southwest Society of Periodontists.