Columbia faculty
Invited on graduation in 1974, later Associate Professor and implant researcher.
About the practice
The Kurpis Center is a prosthodontic and implant practice in Ridgewood, New Jersey, built around one operator’s judgment and a bench of specialists assembled to support it.
Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, 1974, and invited onto the faculty on graduation. Associate Professor and implant researcher. Holder of a United States patent for a dental implant, with more than five thousand placed.
Invited on graduation in 1974, later Associate Professor and implant researcher.
A patent, not a certification. Very few practising dentists hold one.
Author of Amazing Smiles Through Cosmetic Dentistry, and serving a third elected term as Mayor of Saddle River, New Jersey.
The credentials behind the judgment
Life Fellow of the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics. Credentialed Fellow and Past President of the Northeast Section of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry. Fellow of the International Society of Osseo-integration. Founding member of the American Academy of Oral and Systemic Health.
Questions
545 Route 17 South, Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450, serving Ridgewood, Ho-Ho-Kus, Paramus and Saddle River, as well as patients who travel.
No. The work here is cosmetic, implant and reconstructive dentistry, which is a narrower and more demanding field.
Regularly, and internationally. Non-surgical underbite correction in particular brings patients from outside the state.
No obligation
The preliminary consultation is free and includes a 2‑D panoramic scan. If the plan you were given was the right one, you will be told so.