Roger R. Throndson, D.D.S.
Associate Professor, Residency Program Director

Dental School: University of Iowa College of Dentistry, Iowa City, Iowa

Residency Program: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC

Certifications: American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

Special Interests: Dental implant surgery; dentoalveolar surgery; orthognathic Surgery; preprosthetic surgery and pathology; alveolar cleft grafting in the cleft palate patient; craniofacial reconstruction in the cleft palate patient; odontogenic infections; management of maxillofacial trauma; sedation techniques for the apprehensive patient

Awards/Honors:
- Omicron Kappa Upsilon, University of Iowa College of Dentistry
- Honorary Member of the Panama Canal Dental Society
- Honorary Member of the 38th Parallel Dental Society, Republic of Korea
- Fellow, American Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons
- Fellow, American College of Dentists
- Order of Military Medical Merit
- Legion of Merit, U.S. Army
- Biographical Listing in Who's Who of American Medicine and Health Care

Special Activities:
- Appointed as Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Training Program Site Visitor by the American Dental Association
- Texas 9th District Dental Society President Elect

Research Interests:
- The physiology of bone grafting and healing
- Dental and Maxillofacial implants for reconstruction of the dentition and facial complex
- Alloplastic grafting materials
- Rigid fixation and early mobilization of maxillofacial fractures
- Anesthetic management of outpatient surgical patients

Recent Research Projects:
- Use of bioactive glass as an alloplastic bone grafting material

Recent Publications:
- Throndson RR, Sexton, SB, Grafting mandibular third molar extraction sites: A comparison of bioactive glass to a nongrafted site. Oral Sur Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod Vo. 94 No. 4: 413-419,2002
- Throndson RR, Wright JM, Watkins D. Atypical Histiocytic Granuloma of the Oral Mucosa: An Unusual Clinicopathologic Entity Simulating Malignancy. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 59:822-826,2001
- Alexander RE, Throndson RR, A review of perioperative corticosteroid use in dentoalveolar surgery. Oral Sur Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 90:406-15,2000
- Leonetti JA, Rambo HM, Throndson RR, Osteotome sinus elevation and implant placement with narrow size bioactive glass. Implant Dent 9:177-182,2000
- Throndson RR, Walstad WR. Use of the Argon Beam Coagulator for control of postoperative hemorrhage in an anticoagulated patient. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 57:1367-1369,1999

E-mail: rrthrond@utmb.edu

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
301 University Boulevard, Galveston, Texas 77555-0531

Telephone: (409) 772-1546

Fax: (409) 747-7378