Meet Dr. Laureen Langer

Both of our doctors are Board Certified Periodontists and limit their practice to the specialty treatment of diseases of the teeth, gums, implants and oral diagnosis.

LAUREEN LANGER, D.D.S.

Dr. Laureen Langer, received her dental degree from Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery in 1982, where she also obtained her Certificate in Periodontology in 1984. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, and a Fellow of the Academy of Osseointegration.

She held the rank of Associate Clinical Professor of Dentistry at Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery and was Co-director of the Implant Program in the Post-Graduate division of Periodontics where she  taught implant surgery for over 18 years.

Dr. Langer was honored to be one of three periodontists to be chosen to give the first live video surgical demonstration to the Academy of Periodontology in 1993. In this "Afternoon with the Masters" series, Dr. Langer performed periodontal plastic surgery by live broadcast to over 1200 periodontists. She was recently featured in Women in Dentistry.

Dr. Langer has been published in the Journal of Periodontology, The International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry, the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Implants and has authored chapters in five textbooks on the subject of periodontal surgery, gingival recession and implants. She has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally in over 20 countries from Europe to Egypt and Asia.

She was President of the Osseointegration Foundation from 2001-2002 and President of the Northeastern Society of Periodontists in 2002.

 In 2006 she received the Hirschfeld Award for Clinical Excellence from the Northeastern Society of Periodontists.

Laureen Langer - Associations

• Diplomate -  American Academy of Periodontology
• Fellow – Academy of Osseointegration 
• Past President - Academy Of Osseointegration Foundation
• Past President – Northeastern Society of Periodontists
• American Academy of Facial Esthetics
• American  Dental  Association
• The American Board of Periodontology
• New York State Dental Association

 FOR MORE INFORMATION VIEW THE PUBLICATION AND AWARDS PAGES.

Drs. Langer were among the first trained to place dental implants. Over the last 30 years they have placed more than 45,000 dental implants in over 8,000 patients with a documented success rate of 97%. There is not a dental situation that these doctors have not seen nor already treated in their careers.

One of the most frequently asked questions that we hear is "What is the difference between the degrees of D.D.S. and D.M.D. ?" The answer is that they are educationally the same. DDS is the abbreviation for Doctor of Dental Surgery, DMD is the abbreviation for Doctor of Dental Medicine. It only depends upon which institution granted the degree in dentistry.