After graduating from Nair Hospital Dental College, Bombay, he completed Masters in Periodontology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA. In addition, he has a Masters in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Florida and a Masters in Public Health. He is the first Diplomate of the prestigious American Board of Periodontology to be practicing in India, and he holds adjunct faculty appointments in the Department of Periodontology at the University of Texas Health Science Center, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He is also the first ITI (International Team for Implantology) Fellow in India, and is a Registered ITI Speaker. In addition to being a reviewer for the Journal of Periodontology, and the Journal of Clinical Periodontology, he has been a KOL for dental implant and graft companies in Europe and US. His clinical interests are implant dentistry, mucogingival surgery and periodontal bioengineering. He also holds joint US – India dental licenses, and currently practices in Pune.
