Dr. Stuart A. Feldman, BS, D.D.S, FACD, is originally from Washington, D.C. He received both his BS in 1965 and D.D.S. degree in 1969 from the University of Maryland. He served as lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Dental Corps from 1969-1971. He received his certificate in periodontics from Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery in 1973. Dr. Feldman has served as assistant clinical professor of graduate periodontics in the department of periodontology at the University of Florida School of Dentistry for over thirty years. He served as past president of the Palm Beach County Dental Association and the Florida Association of Periodontics. Dr. Feldman served for six years as a member of the executive council of the Southern Academy of Periodontology.
Dr. Feldman has been a very active member and has presented programs for the American Academy of Periodontology, Southern Academy of Periodontolgy, Florida Association of Periodontics, Florida Dental Association, Palm Beach County Dental Association, Palm Beach State College Dental Research Clinic, Department of Periodontology (chairman) and many study clubs.
Dr. Feldman completed his initial implant training in endosseous implants in 1984. He has placed over 15,000 endosseous titanium implants since that time. A special interest has been placement of immediate implants with restorations as well as implants in the esthetic zone. Dr. Feldman is a member of both the Academy of Osseointegration and The International Congress of Oral Implantology.
Dr. Feldman has presented continuing education programs on a variety of subjects including autogenous and alloplastic bone grafting in periodontal defects, interdisciplinary therapies to achieve optimal esthetics, long term results of implant therapies, and periodontal regeneration with enamel matrix proteins. Dr. Feldman is a fellow of the American College of Dentists and the Pierre Fauchard Academy. He has been in private practice in West Palm Beach and Jupiter, Florida since 1975.
Dr. Karina F. Leal, D.M.D is originally from New York. She received both her D.M.D. degree and her certificate in Periodontology from Temple University School of Dentistry in Philadelphia, where she received numerous honors. Dr. Leal is a Diplomate, of the American Academy of Periodontology.
Dr. Leal has served on the board and has been past president of both the North Palm Beach and Central Palm Beach Dental Societies. She has been and is involved with the Palm Beach State College Research Clinic and various study clubs. She holds active memberships in the American Academy of Periodontology, Board of Periodontology, American Dental Association, Florida Dental Association and Academy of Osseointegration, among others. She is member of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, an invitation only organization.
Dr. Leal has co-authored and has been sited in numerous journals. She has contributed to lectures and programs highlighting the use of periodontal procedures to optimize dental esthetics, as well as implant dentistry to maximize esthetics and function.
Dr. Leal limits her practice to periodontics and implant dentistry. She not only strives to provide the best outcome in periodontal health using regenerative procedures, but utilizes conservative techniques to obtain excellent esthetics in implant dentistry. Utilizing digital dental cat scans, she is able to preplan surgical treatment in a three dimensional environment to ensure optimal results. Implants can often receive temporary crowns the day of placement. Dr. Leal is passionate about incorporating the advances in digital dentistry to provide her patients with the most advanced dental technologies.