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David Clark, DDS

Practice Owner
Clark Dental Group
Tacoma, Washington, United States

Dr. David Clark is the director of Bioclear Learning Centers International. He founded the Academy of Microscope Enhanced Dentistry, creates curricula for dental schools, and has lectured in 27 countries. He developed the Bioclear Matrix System for placement of biologically appropriate, esthetically pleasing direct composite restorations, facilitating injection molding of the Clark Class I and Class II preparations, diastema closure, and black triangle elimination combined with papilla regeneration. He is actively collaborating with dental schools to move beyond GV Black cavity preparations. The Clark Class I and Clark Class II preparations and injection-molded restorations (non-retentive, compression-based, and infinity edge margins) have been validated in multiple studies. He also holds several patents.
Dr. Clark and Dr. John Khademi are acknowledged as the fathers of Minimally Invasive Endodontics, a concept initially rejected by most North American endodontists but now embraced by the mainstream. Dr. Clark published the first classification system for dentin and enamel cracks based on 16x magnification and has conducted extensive studies on cracked teeth. He has designed numerous instruments, burs, wedges, matrices, separators, and equipment, and he has authored chapters for both esthetic dentistry and endodontic textbooks. Dr. Clark is a 1986 graduate of the University of Washington School of Dentistry.

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