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MARTIN C. NAGER, D.M.D., F.I.C.D.

Dr. Martin C. Nager (born April 8, 1958)is a periodontist in private practice in Warwick and Narragansett, Rhode Island. Dr. Nager graduated from the University of Rochester with a BA in Spanish in 1980. He attended Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine receiving his dental degree in 1985 and his periodontal Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in 1987. He is presently a Faculty Attending at the Samuels-Sinclair Dental Center at Rhode Island Hospital. For eight years he taught as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Periodontology and Oral Biology at Boston University, and is a former clinical instructor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at the University of Rhode Island.

Dr. Nager is a Fellow in the International College of Dentists and a member of the Pierre Fauchard Honor Society. He became a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology in 1993. He is one of five Rhode Island periodontists to become Board Certified. Dr. Nager is a long-standing member of the Rhode Island Dental Association, serving as its President in 2004, and continuing on as a current trustee and Chair of the Council on Communications, the American Dental Association, and American Academy of Periodontology, American Board of Periodontology, Academy of Oral Medicine, Academy of Osseointegration, and the American Association of Implant Dentists. He is President of the Rhode Island Foundation for Dentistry for the Handicapped (Donated Dental Services).

Dr Nager is a nationally recognized speaker having lectured at dental meetings for the past 21 years. In addition, he has published a number of papers on periodontics and dental implants. He was voted one of the Top Five Periodontists in Rhode Island by his peers in both issues of Top Docs, Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, September, 1999, and May 2005. In March 2003, Dr. Nager was awarded the Blue Angels Community Heroes Award for a decade of treating the homeless at Travelers Aid in Providence.

Dr Nager is married to a fellow periodontist Denise Shapiro, DDS and lives in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

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