We are pleased to welcome Dr. Lawrence Kent to our practice in October
2007.  Dr. Kent has an extensive background and will be an asset to our
community.  Dr. Kent went to college at the University of California-
San Diego and graduated from Baylor College of Dentistry in
1984.  He went on to the United States Air Force where he completed a
General Practice Residency in 1985.  He completed his Oral &
Maxillofacial Residency in 1992 at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center in
La Crosse Wisconsin.

Dr. Kent joined the faculty at Gundersen Lutheran in 1992. He  held the
position of Section Chief from 1994-2007.  He additionally served as Program Director of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency from 2001-2004 and 2007.
The Gundersen Lutheran medical system is a physician led,
not-for-profit health care system.  It is one of the nation’s largest
multi-specialty group medical practices. The system includes a 325-bed
teaching hospital with over 500 physicians and dentists that provide
care for a 19 county area of western Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa and
southeastern Minnesota. It is the Western Clinical Campus for the
University of Wisconsin Medical School.  Gundersen has been named among
the top 100 hospitals 10 times in the last 10 years.  Dr. Kent’s
section maintained two private clinics in western Wisconsin.

Dr. Kent’s commitments are not only to patient care, teaching and
research, but he has been a leader in organized dentistry.  He is a
member of the American Dental Association, a fellow of the American
Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, and American Dental
Society of Anesthesiology.  He is the past chairman of the Wisconsin
Society of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Membership and By-Laws
committees.  He is a past delegate to the Wisconsin Dental Association.
  He is the past president of the La Crosse District Dental Society and was a charter member of the La Crosse Implant Study Club.
 
Dr. Kent is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial
Surgery.  He has extensive experience, surgical skills, and interests
in Dentoalveolar Surgery, Dental Implants, Orthognathic Surgery, Facial
Trauma, Cleft Palate & Craniofacial Disorders, Facial Reconstruction,
and TMJ Surgery.