Meet Our Team

E. Richard Hughes, DDS

Dr. Hughes, with over 30 years of experience in implant dentistry, is a national and international lecturer on numerous topics about implant dentistry, implant surgical demonstrator and clinical investigator.

Credentials and Memberships

• Diplomate, American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry (This is board certification, less than 500 worldwide with this designation)
• Member of the Board of Trustees, Honored Fellow and Fellow, American Academy of Implant Dentistry
• Fellow, American Academy of Implant Prosthodontics
• American Board of Dental Specialties
• Reviewer, Journal of Oral Implantology

Sits On the Following

• Board of Trustees, American Academy of Implant Dentistry
• Part One (written examination) Test Construction Committee, American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry
• Oral Examiner: American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry (Testing doctors challenging the Board Certification Examination for Implant Dentistry) and for the American Academy of Implant Dentistry
• Board of Directors: The American Academy of Implant Prosthodontics, The International Academy of Implants and Transplants
• Editorial Advisory Board: Journal of Implant and Advanced Clinical Dentistry

Faculty

• American Academy of Implant Prosthodontics
• International Academy of Implants and Transplants
• Vancouver AAID MAXI Course – Vancouver, BC, Canada

Education

• Bachelor of Science, Microbiology, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
• Doctor of Dental Surgery, Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry, Nashville, Tn.
• Post Doctorate Certificate, Dental Implantology, Howard University School of Dentistry, Washington, D.C.
• Comprehensive Oral Implantology Residency, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Fl.

Dr. Hughes' widespread expertise includes experience testifying before the Food and Drug Administration's Dental Products Panel of the Medical Devices Committee in 2013. After Dr. Hughes testified alongside Dr. Ralph Roberts, the panel elected to reclassify blade form endosseous dental implants from a Class III to Class II medical device. Blade forms are now in the same classification as root form dental implants.