Coronation Dental Specialty Group is multi-site dental practice in south western Ontario with a practice limited to dental specialists including Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery,

Endodontics Endodontics (from the Greek roots ''endo-'' "inside" and ''odont-'' "tooth") is the dental specialty concerned with the study and treatment of the dental pulp. Overview Endodontics encompasses the study (practice) of the basic and clinical ...

Periodontics Periodontology or periodontics (from Ancient Greek , – 'around'; and , – 'tooth', genitive , ) is the specialty of dentistry that studies supporting structures of teeth, as well as diseases and conditions that affect them. The supporting ...

and

Anaesthesia Anesthesia is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical or veterinary purposes. It may include some or all of analgesia (relief from or prevention of pain), paralysis (muscle relaxation), a ...

. Coronation Dental provides services for removal of

wisdom teeth A third molar, commonly called wisdom tooth, is one of the three molars per quadrant of the human dentition. It is the most posterior of the three. The age at which wisdom teeth come through ( erupt) is variable, but this generally occurs betw ...

, dental implants, gum surgery, gum grafting,

root canal A root canal is the naturally occurring anatomic space within the root of a tooth. It consists of the pulp chamber (within the coronal part of the tooth), the main canal(s), and more intricate anatomical branches that may connect the root ...

s and anaesthesia. It employs 70 full and part-time people in Southwestern Ontario.

Services

Coronation Dental operates out of seven surgical centres and four hospitals with Cambridge being a central resource for all centres. Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and anaesthesia, supports each of the seven offices, while the other specialties are available in Cambridge and Waterloo. Four specialities serve with Coronation Dental Specialty Group including Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (surgery of the face and jaws including wisdom teeth, dental implants, bone grafting, trauma and pathology), Periodontics (gum surgery, laser gum surgery, gum grafting), Endodontics (root canal, apical surgery). There are 7 Oral Surgeons, 1 Periodontist and 2 Endodontists. All of the practitioners are registered with the

Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario The Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario (RCDSO) is the regulatory college for dentists in the province of Ontario, Canada. The college was incorporated on March 4, 1868, when royal assent was granted to ''An Act Respecting Dentistry'' in ...

as specialists and to provide anaesthesia during procedures. In addition, a medical anaesthetist, registered through the

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provides anaesthetics for more challenging medical requirements.

Community activities and hospital affiliations

Cambridge Memorial Hospital Woodstock General Hospital Stratford General Hospital/Huron Perth Alliance Alexandra Marine and General Hospital
Coronation Dental supports local charities through a charitable program in the practice.^,^,

Academic activities

Many of the doctors hold appointments to the

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, Faculty of Dentistry as clinical educators. Dr. Karina Roth is a former director of undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, Department of Endodontics. Drs. Ciavarro, Diamond and Cho hold appointments as clinical instructures in the Department of Oral Surgery. The group also provides continuing education within the local community through education nights and lectures at society meetings.^, Dr. Furst is an editorial consultant to the

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and spearheaded the JCDA OASIS (Web 2.0) platform with Dr. John O'Keefe. For primary research, a complete list of peer-reviewed publications can be found on

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through the

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website searching by the doctor's name.

History

Coronation Dental was founded by an Oral Surgeon transplanted from

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Cambridge, Ontario Cambridge is a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, located at the confluence of the Grand and Speed rivers. The city had a population of 138,479 as of the 2021 census. Along with Kitchener and Waterloo, Cambridg ...

. Dr. Harry Hersh had trained at

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where the various specialties in dentistry shared a clinic space and collaboration was commonplace. His goal was to recreate a private clinic environment where the same collaboration could occur. At the time, it was more common for specialists to practice alone. During the 1980s and 1990s Dr. Hersh expanded the practice to the cities of

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, Stratford, and Goderich and took on associates. In 2007 the Cambridge office was expanded. Later, satellite offices opened in Waterloo (2010),

Guelph Guelph ( ; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", Guelph is roughly east of Kitchener and west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Highway 6, Highway 7 and Wel ...

(2013) and

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(2013)^,^,^,

Pictures

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References

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