Jay S. Seibert (August 18, 1928 – December 20, 1997) was a board-certified
American
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periodontist who served as
professor in and
chairman
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of the periodontics department at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine.
Education
Seibert was born in
Livingston, New Jersey, and raised in nearby
West Orange, graduating from the West Orange public high school. After matriculating from Bucknell University in
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, he attended the
University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, graduating in 1953. He completed his training in periodontics at
Baylor College of Dentistry
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in
Dallas, Texas, in 1960.
Career
Seibert served in the US Army dental corps from 1953 to 1973, retiring as a
full colonel
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from the
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in
Washington, D.C., and having held the position of chief of periodontics from 1967 until his retirement in 1973.
Seibert held the position of chairman of the periodontal department from 1973 to 1975 and then again from 1979 to 1982, and also served as the associate dean for academic affairs and director of the predoctoral program from 1975 to 1979 and then again from 1982 to 1984. He also led the postdoctoral periodontal department from 1979 to 1981 and then again from 1990 until he died in 1997.
[Penn Dental: News & Event]
Thomas Evans Achievement Award Honors Jay S. Seibert (D’53)
June 5, 2006
He contributed to dental literature in the form of textbook chapters and independent academic research papers. In 1983, he published a classification system for deficiencies of the
alveolar ridges.
Seibert died of December 20, 1997 of complications due to
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most comm ...
.
[''Philly.com']
Obituary: Jay S. Seibert, 69, Of Penn Dental School
December 23, 1997
References
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Periodontists
1928 births
1997 deaths
American dentists
University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine alumni
Bucknell University alumni
20th-century dentists