Mark R. Durham,
DMD
Section Head, Prosthodontics
Languages Spoken: English
Prosthodontist, VA Hospital 2011 - Present
Prosthodontist, U of U Faculty Practice 2015 - Present
Prosthodontist, Private Practice, Utah 2013 -2016
Attending, VA GPR (2010 – 2015)
Attending U of U GPR 2015 - 2016
Attending U of U, Dental School 2015 – Present
Clinical Locations
University Hospital
801-581-2220
Specialties
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Dentistry
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Assistant Professor (Clinical) |
PIONEERING
Pioneered a nationally recognized Prosthodontic Portfolio (Advanced education in dentures, overdentures, hybrids, & full-mouth reconstructions) 2012
Pioneered the “Custom-Tray Rim” as a time-saving/quality-improvement denture advent 2012
Pioneered a team that gave the award winning, CAD/CAM, dental-implant prostheses, to a corporation to be marketed nationally 2013
Patent submission in dental technologies related to prosthodontics, with 11 University invention disclosures 2015 - Present
Developing virtual-reality educational models for hands-on learning in dentistry 2016 – present
Recipient of the Imagine Perfect Care award with funding for novel biomarker platform technology 2016
Developing artificial intelligence for dental radiographs with the SCI Institute and the Dental School 2017
TEACHING
Course director of Removable-Partial Dentures 2015 - Present
Course director of Complete Dentures 2015 – Present
Course director of Implants for Removable Prosthetics 2015 - Present
Course director of Implants for Fixed Prosthetics 2015 - Present
Co-course director for Fixed Prosthetics 2015
Course Director in CAD/CAM Ceramics 2015
Founder of international dental education website, dentucation.com (large “Generation Y/X” following)
LEADERSHIP
Chair, New Technology Workgroup, HSC Academic Affairs Office
Section Chief, Prosthetics, U of U
Assistant Residency Director, VA Hospital (2010 – 2015)
Laboratory Lead, VA Hospital (2010 – 2015)
The VHASLC George Whalen Award Recipient
Strategy Committee, Dental School 2016 - Present
Executive Committee, Dental School 2016 – Present
Director, Continuing Dental Education 2015 - 2017
Co-manage the logistics, employment, standards, policies, for the School of Dentistry’s in-house laboratory and have since its inception 2015 – Present
Academic Locations
Ray and Tye Noorda Oral Health Sciences Building
801-585-1724
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Dentistry
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Assistant Professor (Clinical) |
Education History
| Residency | Louisiana School of Dentistry Prosthodontic Specialist Resident |
| Professional Dental | Case School of Dental Medicine Medicine D.M.D. |
| Undergraduate | University of Utah B.S. |
| Undergraduate | Ricks College A.A.S. |