Associate Professor Jonathan Leichter

Associate Professor Jonathan Leichter is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Oral Sciences at the University of Otago. Associate Professor Leichter joined the faculty after 20 years in fulltime private practice in New York and Boston, 18 of which were spent in specialist practice limited to periodontology and implant dentistry. Trained at Tufts University and obtaining his specialist training at Harvard University, he has been actively involved in clinical dental implant practice since 1984. Since 2002, he has supervised and mentored postgraduate students in periodontology, endodontics and prosthodontics. His research interests and publications are in the field of periodontology, dental trauma and laser applications in dentistry.

Associate Professor Leichter provides expert commentary for Oral Health Research Review.

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