Adjunct Professor

Dr. Scott Benjamin is a graduate of SUNY Buffalo, School of Dental Medicine and has been in full-time private practice in the Tri-Town area for over 35 years. He has been a leader in advanced dental technology and dental lasers since their infancy and is an internationally recognized authority, author, and educator on lasers, dental technologies, diagnosis, and Oral Cancer and its early detection. He has presented internationally at major dental meetings, universities, workshops, study clubs, and user meetings and has authored more than 200 articles, textbook chapters, and ADA-ANSI Technical Reports and Standards on topics ranging from Oral Cancer and enhanced diagnostic modalities to computerization, lasers, and other advanced dental technologies. Dr. Benjamin is presently the Technology Section Editor for The Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry, and was the Technology Editor of The Journal of Practical Hygiene, and the Section Editor of Advanced Technologies for The Journal of Practical Procedures & Aesthetic Dentistry, and is currently on the editorial board of Inside Dentistry and, Dentistry Today.

Dr. Benjamin is an active member of ADA Standards Committee on Dental Informatics (ADA-SCDI), and is the chairman of three separate Working Groups on: Data Redundancy, Archiving, and Storage; Digital Imaging, Photography and Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM); and The Electronic Patient Dental Record and was appointed to the Task Force on the National Healthcare Information Infrastructure (NHII). He is also a member of the ADA Standards Committee on Dental Products (ADA-SCDP) and serves as the Working Group Chairman for Dental Lasers. As the only practicing dentist that serves on both standards committees Dr. Benjamin also is the co-chairman of the Joint Working Group of both the ADA-SCDP and ADA-SCDI that acts as the liaison that connects the two standards committees together especially in the areas of CAD-CAM dentistry and terminology. He is a past member of the National Dental Electronic Data Interchange Council (NDEDIC) Board of Trustees. He is also the Immediate Past-President of the Academy of Laser Dentistry (ALD), a member of ANSI Sub-committee Z-136 on Laser Safety, and President of the Tri-County Dental Society and is a past President of the Sixth District Dental Society of the New York State Dental Association. He has served as the Scientific Program Chairman for the Academy of Laser Dentistry in 2007 and again in 2010. In 2014 Dr. Benjamin was honored by the ADA as “The Outstanding Volunteer” for his dedication to dentistry, especially as it relates to his efforts in the development of the ADA/ANSI Standards.