Marc Ackerman, DMD, MBA, FACD
Director of Orthodontics; Senior Associate, Department of Dentistry
Assistant Professor, Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
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Marc Ackerman, DMD, MBA, FACD
Director of Orthodontics; Senior Associate, Department of Dentistry
Assistant Professor, Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Medical Services
Languages
English
Education
Undergraduate School
Bucknell University
1994
Lewisburg
PA
Graduate School
University of Pennsylvania
1998
Philadelphia
PA
Residency
Orthodontics
University of Rochester
2000
Rochester
NY
Fellowship
Medical Ethics
Harvard Medical School
2014
Boston
MA
Professional History
Dr. Ackerman has provided clinical care to patients in full-time private practice in Bryn Mawr, PA from 2000-2007, taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University’s dental schools during the same period, taught full-time at Jacksonville University Department of Orthodontics from 2007-2010 ultimately serving as Chair in 2010 and then came to Boston Children’s Hospital at the end of 2010.
Approach to Care
I am a third-generation orthodontist. Orthodontics is a branch of dentistry that aims primarily to enhance appearance affecting psychosocial fitness and in a small subset of cases improve physical oral health as it is affected by congenital or acquired pathology. Orthodontic practice much like cosmetology exists to satisfy patients’ desire to become better than normal to whatever degree they wish.
Publications
Disruptive Innovations. View Abstract
Rapid Coating Process Generates Omniphobic Dentures in Minutes to Reduce C. albicans Biofouling. View Abstract
Leadership in a time of disruption. View Abstract
Do what I say and not what you do. View Abstract
Specialist envy: Is special care dentistry a dental specialty or a dental special interest group? View Abstract
Analog to digital: special care in dentistry 2015. View Abstract
Indebted to the bank or the profession? New doctor debt and its effect on access to care. View Abstract
What is the difference between health and disability? View Abstract
Why perform a literature review? View Abstract
Dentistry at crossroads: the access to care crisis for patients with special needs. View Abstract
Six keys for making orthodontics a sustainable dental specialty. View Abstract
People with intellectual disabilities must be designated a medically underserved population. View Abstract
First impressions: how to "wow" students into special care dentists. View Abstract
Technology, evidence and the future of Special Care in Dentistry. View Abstract
Longitudinal trends in discharge patterns of orthognathic surgeries: is there a regionalization of procedures in teaching hospitals? View Abstract
The human capital crisis in orthodontics. View Abstract
E-space preservation. View Abstract
Clinical research for the good of the specialty: bravo! View Abstract
Posttreatment compliance with removable maxillary retention in a teenage population: a short-term randomized clinical trial. View Abstract
Technology and the art and practice of orthodontics. View Abstract
Selling orthodontic need: innocent business decision or guilty pleasure? View Abstract
Microsensor technology to help monitor removable appliance wear. View Abstract
Hard- and soft-tissue contributions to the esthetics of the posed smile in growing patients seeking orthodontic treatment. View Abstract
Deconstructing evidence in orthodontics: making sense of systematic reviews, randomized clinical trials, and meta-analyses. View Abstract
A Philadelphia fable: how ideal occlusion became the philosopher's stone of orthodontics. View Abstract
Pitch, roll, and yaw: describing the spatial orientation of dentofacial traits. View Abstract
A Philadelphia fable: how ideal occlusion became the philosopher's stone of orthodontics. View Abstract
ABO certification in the age of evidence and enhancement. View Abstract
Orthodontics and its discontents. View Abstract
Evidence-bolstered orthodontics. View Abstract
Evidence-bolstered orthodontics. View Abstract
Buccal smile corridors. View Abstract
Obsequies for an opinion masquerading as fact. View Abstract
Gatekeepers of scholarship. View Abstract
Orthodontics in the age of enhancement. View Abstract
Orthodontics and its discontents. View Abstract
The apically repositioned flap and unerupted teeth. View Abstract
Evidence-based orthodontics for the 21st century. View Abstract
An evaluation of dynamic lip-tooth characteristics during speech and smile in adolescents. View Abstract
Dynamic smile visualization and quantification: Part 2. Smile analysis and treatment strategies. View Abstract
Dynamic smile visualization and quantification: part 1. Evolution of the concept and dynamic records for smile capture. View Abstract
The myth of Janus: Orthodontic progress faces orthodontic history. View Abstract
Smile analysis and design in the digital era. View Abstract
A morphometric analysis of the posed smile. View Abstract
The full coverage restoration in relation to the gingival sulcus. View Abstract
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