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Dr. Chris Kammer

Integrative Dentistry For Aesthetics and Systemic Health
Education: Graduated from Marquette School of Dentistry, Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.), 1981.

Years at CCD: 1981- Present

For more than 20 years, Dr. Chris Kammer has been at the forefront of emerging technologies and approaches in dentistry, and has become America’s most active advocate for the "oral systemic" approach of disease prevention. A founding member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, Dr. Kammer has spent his career introducing and implementing technologies that have revolutionized dental treatment – changing lives, improving systemic health, and creating beautiful smiles. His work with the oral systemic approach, a recent movement in medicine and dentistry that improves general health by optimizing oral health, has helped many of his patients gain increased resistance to chronic disease, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, some types of cancer, and Alzheimer’s, as well as pre-term birth, and obesity. His work in cosmetic dentistry has helped to change dental protocol in America and abroad.

Dr. Kammer’s work has been presented at numerous dental conferences, conventions, and seminars, and has been published in leading dental journals. He is also on the technology team for Dental Products Report. In recent years he has been a passionate educator in the media and in professional forums about the importance of the oral systemic approach. His Hygiene Transformation seminar was the first in the country to train dentists on performing in-office blood testing and how it relates to dentistry and systemic health.

Dr. Kammer also trains dentists to serve as media spokespersons through his Dental Media Power seminars, is a former chief dental consultant for Reader’s Digest, and has been quoted in many publications, including USA Today, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and Woman’s Day. Madison Magazine did a cover story on him (“Chris Rocks!”) for their issue about the top dentists in the Madison metro area. He has also appeared widely on regional television and radio programs, as well as on CNN, Fox Television’s Fox and Friends, and CBS MarketWatch, with brief appearances on The Today Show and Late Night with David Letterman. He is a member of the National Dental Network’s “Who’s Who of Dentistry,” and has been recognized by his peers as “America’s Favorite Dentist.”

Dr. Kammer was one of the first clinicians in America to develop a protocol for disease prevention with the oral systemic approach, using his comprehensive “Gums of Steel” program. He was an early practitioner of laser dentistry, and has lectured on it since 2003. He also regularly gives dental implant lectures that include live patient surgeries that he performs. His implant and immediate crown technique is the most popular dental presentation on YouTube. He was one of America’s first dentists to offer sedation dentistry, ozone decay reversal, air abrasion, “invisible” braces, single-session teeth whitening, and accelerated orthodontics, which straightens teeth in a few months, rather than years. He has investigated the link between oral health and systemic health, jaw dysfunction and migraine headaches, and chronic snoring and sleep apnea.

He has helped bring the practice of oral systemics from its early clinical stage to its current widespread recognition as an important healing approach that integrates medicine and dentistry. Oral systemics is based upon evidence that oral bacterial frequently enter the system and give rise to inflammation factors that become significant risk factors in a wide range of health problems. This condition occurs when people suffer from periodontal disease, which often occurs without symptoms, and is now present to some degree in approximately 80% of adult Americans according to the U.S. Surgeon General. This disease is also present in a moderate to severe degree in 30% of adults, according to studies. Oral systemics was the subject of the keynote address at the 2009 International Association of Dental Research Convention, and was the sole subject of a 2006 special edition of Scientific American, sponsored by Proctor & Gamble, the makers of Crest toothpaste.

Dr. Kammer’s work was internationally recognized in 2001 when Proctor & Gamble distributed results of his orthodontic and cosmetic work to thousands of dentists throughout the world, and became early supporters of the oral systemic approach. He has won the Innovator Award from the Invisalign Corporation, and finished in third place in one of the first International Cosmetic Dental Results Competitions, sponsored by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. In 2003 he received the Dental Hall of Fame Award from Generation Next, in recognition of his role in the communication of the expanded scope of dental practice in integrative medicine.

Certifications and Professional Membership
Founding Member, American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry
American Dental Association
Academy of General Dentistry
Dental Organization for Conscious Sedation
American Orthodontic Society
International Association for Orthodontics
Wisconsin Dental Association
Dane County Dental Society




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Lifetime Family Dentistry, formerly Center for Cosmetic Dentistry, Middleton, Wisconsin.
8313 Greenway Blvd Ste. 150 · Middleton, WI 53562 · (608)827-6453 (82-SMILE)

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