Greg J. Vigoren, DDS, has had a leading-edge dentistry practice in Newport Beach for more than 40 years. He has lectured nationally and internationally on his innovative approach to the comfort of the patient, long-term elimination of tooth decay and leakage failure, correcting poorly done or failed restorative dentistry from outdated methods, and avoiding catastrophic failures...while promoting great, natural esthetics. His reputation attracts patients from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
46 years of clinical practice; 43 years in the same location, the last 31 years as a general restorative dentist in a collaborative multidisciplinary group practice, with full-time in-house laboratory support from multiple internationally recognized ceramists. 38 years of experience using high magnification, and the last 26 years with the surgical microscope.
Long-term participation in airway/sleep, esthetic dentistry, implants, treatment planning, head and neck pain, TMJ treatments, practice management, occlusion, and full-mouth reconstruction/rehabilitation study groups--Over 4,500 hours of continued education.
Faculty positions in restorative dentistry, diagnosis and treatment planning, endodontics, and esthetic dentistry at USC and UCLA. The first one in dentistry is to introduce, transition, and compare digital imaging to film.
Ed Mclaren, Don Cornell, Bob Winter, and Peter Wohrle are among the better-known international lecturers who have practiced with him in his office. Design porcelain by Ivoclar, the Noble Perfect implant, and 3:1 digital projection aspect ratio presentations for dental continuing education meetings were developed in his office.
Dr. Vigoren has maintained a private general practice in Newport Beach, California, for the past 43 years. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, spending two years in the U.S. Air Force while stationed in Japan and completing four 6-month rotating internships in endodontics, oral surgery, periodontal surgery, and pedodontics.
He is a member of the AAED, PCSP, NHAD, AMED, ADA, CDA, and OCDS. He was a prior CRA dental evaluator for 28 years and is a current or prior consultant for KavoKerr, Air Techniques, Apple, Canon, and ESPE, all major dental manufacturers.
In comparison to the norm, his techniques demonstrate extremely long survival rates and extremely low failure rates all documented with large volumes of data with 90% of all procedures having been photographed over the last 37years. He has multiple major re-constructions done in dental school on family and friends over 45 years ago, without failure.
Dr. Vigoren has held offices and committee leadership positions in many professional organizations. Professional society memberships include the American Dental Association, California Dental Association, Orange County Dental Society, Newport Harbor Academy of Dentistry, Pacific Coast Society for Prosthodontics and American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry.
Dr. Vigoren believes that unnecessary patient discomfort and fear of dentistry is caused by outdated dental methods. The unfortunate result is the cascading failure of dental health among too many adults. He specializes in restorative dentistry with maximum patient comfort.