Study Club

Dr. Natalie Wong

Dr. Natalie Wong graduated from the University of Toronto with her Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1996 and received her Certificate in Prosthodontics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2007.

She is one of 20 Canadian dentists that have attained their U. S. Board Certification in Implant Dentistry (receiving her Dipolmate from the American Board of Oral Implantology in 2003).  She holds Fellowships with the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD), American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID), and the Misch International Implant Institute of Canada for which she is also a Faculty Member.

Dr. Wong currently serves as a part time Clinical Instructor in the Graduate Prosthodontic Clinic and Implant Prosthetics Unit at the University of Toronto and is a Guest Lecturer with the Radiology Department at the University of Toronto.  She also serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Oral Implantology, Department of Peridontolgy, Temple University.  She presides as Co-Chairman of the 9th annual ICOI/IPS symposium in Montreal, is currently President of the Central District of AAID, and Founder and Director of the Toronto Implant Institute Inc.  Dr. Wong lectures nationally and internationally on implant dentistry while maintaining a private prosthodontic and implant surgical practice in Toronto.  She is concurrently completing a Masters of Science in Dentistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dr. Su

Dr. Su is a board certified Oral and Maxillofacial Pathologist.  As one of nine dental specialties recognized by the American Dental Association, there are less than 400 such specialists nationwide.  Dr. Su received five years of extensive training in the Department of Oral Medicine and pathology at Guy’s Hospital, University of London, England, after her dental degree was received.  She completed a three-year residency in Oral, Head, and Neck Pathology at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, and a one year fellowship in Orofacial Pain and TMJ Disorders at UCLA School of Medicine and Dentistry.

She is a clinical associate professor in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at UCI Medical Center, on the faculty in Orofacial Pain, Oral Medicine and Pathology at UCLA School of Dentistry, and is a consultant at the VA Long Beach Hospital.  Dr. Su has a chair on the editorial board of the Journal of Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology, and is the past president of the Southern California Academy of Oral Pathology.  She is well published in international and national peer-reviewed journals.

While these services are traditionally available only in dental schools, Dr. Su has had the training and expertise to integrate all three separate divisions (Oral Pathology, Oral Medicine, and Orofacial Pain) into one private practice.  Her mission is to make these services more easily available to the community and to deliver the highest standards of care with her uniquely specialized services and to allow each and everyone of her patients to achieve a higher quality of life.

Dr. Ziv Simon
Dr. Simon maintains a private practice limited to periodontics, dental implants and reconstructive surgery in Beverly Hills, California.  He obtained his dental degree and Bachlor of Medical Sciences degree from Tel Aviv University, where he held a teaching position in the Department of Prosthodontics.  He received his periodontal graduate degree from the University of Toronto where he obtained a Master of Science degree in Periodontology.  He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada.

Dr. Simon is the founder of the Beverly Hills Multidisciplinary Dental Study Group and a director of the Beverly Hills Academy of Dentistry.  Dr. Simon publishes and lectures nationally as well as internationally on smile design, implant dentistry and tissue reconstruction.

Arthur W. Curley
Mr. Curley is a senior trial attorney in the San Francisco based health care defense firm of Bradley, Curley, Asiano, Barrabee & Gale, P.C.  After graduating from UC Berkeley with honors in 1970, he obtained his JD in 1974 from the University of California, Hastings School of Law in San Francisco.  As a trial attorney he has been defending doctors for over 30 years and has given risk management courses throughout the United States.  He is an associate of the American Board of Trail Advocates.  Mr. Curley has published several articles on risk management and authored chapters in text books:  Babbush (Implants), Peterson (Oral Surgery), Cohen (Endodontics) and Block (Implants).