06 April 2023

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Video: Dr. Taite Anderson, author of “The Art of Oral Surgery”

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Edra Publishing interviewed dental industry leaders and authors at the recent International Dental Show in Cologne, Germany. 

IDS organizers estimated that attendees numbered 120,000 throughout the convention. This year marked the 100th anniversary of the IDS, which premiered in 1923. The convention featured innovations and new technologies in digital dentistry.

In this interview, Dr. Taite Anderson talked about his background as a dentist and his forthcoming book on oral surgery. 

Anderson said that his father was a dentist, so he knew from a young age that he wanted to be a dentist. 

“More interestingly, I was bitten by the oral surgery ‘bug’ my second year in dental school,” he said. At the time, he was on a mission trip and realized that he could be more helpful on similar trips or at outreach events being competent in oral surgery. 

Anderson is currently the solo practitioner in his dental practice. He has 12 people on his dental team and they make the practice run, he said. The team performs extractions, exodontia, implantology, implant site preparation, infection management and they manage trauma cases. 

The oral surgeon, based near South Bend, Indiana, is currently working on a book that should be published in 2024. 

Anderson has nearly 400 pages written, and the book is being edited and in the refining stages, he explained. 

“There’s a lot that I didn’t learn in school, pearls and the practical tips that I’ve learned in the past decade,” he said, when describing what is in the book. These might be things that he learned in dental school or topics he’s realized he doesn’t use now that he’s been a practicing oral surgeon for 10 years.

His aim for the book was how to teach and share what in his busy practice has been efficient, works and is safe for patients and the dental team.

“As much as anything, it’s a book to inspire through art,” he said. The content is surgical and realistic, but it is also combined with the “art of oral surgery,” and includes works of art created by Anderson.   

He has created paintings in various styles of renowned artists, applying Van Gogh’s principles of painting to how you perceive an implant or looking at Rothko and applying that to a PRF (platelet rich fibrin) application.

The book also includes photos and details of oral surgery procedures. 

Learn more about his background and practice at: https://grangeroralsurgery.com/