I graduated from the University of Southern California School of Dentistry in 1977. After graduation I attended a postgraduate program at USC/LA County General Hospital in internal medicine, physical diagnosis, and cardiology. The program was designed to qualify dentists to do admitting history and physicals for patients who would need hospitalization for major dental treatment. In 1980 I started a hospital based general practice in Fountain Valley, California. Fountain Valley Regional Hospital was at that time the busiest trauma center in Orange County. My practice consisted of general dentistry, dental trauma, and dentistry for medically compromised or handicapped patients who had to be treated in a hospital setting. I quickly realized that conventional dental rehabilitation was inadequate for many of these patients. I therefore began investigating the then new field of oral implantology and subsequently attended formal training at Loma Linda University, the Medical College of Georgia, and the Misch Institute. My practice is limited to oral implantology and related procedures such as bone grafting and implant restoration. To View Dr. Levitt's CV Click Here