Azeem K Lakha, DMD
Dr. Lakha is a Board Certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon who has limited his practice to Osseointegration Surgery (dental implants) and Osseous (bone) Grafting. Dr. Lakha has extensive experience in implant surgery having been involved in it since the inception of the technology in the United States 25 years ago. He is one of the few surgeons in the world to have been trained in advanced osseointegration surgery by Professor Branemark of Sweden, the inventor of the technology used in today’s implants.
Dr. Lakha has pioneered several innovative grafting techniques and instrumentation in the field of osseointegration surgery and bone transplantation. Over the last 20 years he has gained extensive experience in routine and complex cases including bone and implant reconstruction of victims of cancers, tumors, facial trauma, gun shot wounds, cleft lip and palate cases, and unusual congenital syndromes of the head and neck such as Riegers’s syndrome, Cliedocranial dysostosis, Osteogenesis Imperfecta and related syndromes.
In addition to his busy surgical practice, Dr. Lakha devotes time to teaching and participating in clinical trials and research. He places a high level of emphasis on an evidence based practice and using methods and products that have undergone extensive scientific scrutiny. Based on these principles, the practice has consistently been on the cutting edge of new technologies and often the first in the region to introduce new surgical methods and restorative components (PIADS).
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Undergraduate:
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
BA (Bacteriology)
Graduate:
University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine
Doctor of Dental Medicine
Post-Doctoral:
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Long Beach
General Practice Residency
University of California Irvine, Medical Center
Residency in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Fellowships:
University of Southern California
Fellowship in Oral Pathology
University of California at Los Angeles
Fellowship in Head & Neck Surgery and Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Board Certification:
American Board of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons
Academic Appointments
Stanford University School of Medicine: Clinical Faculty, Dept. of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (1996-Present)
VA Medical Center, Palo Alto, California: Lecturer (1987-1990)
VA Medical Center Loma Linda, California: Lecturer and Staff Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon (1985-1987)
Loma Linda University Medical Center: Lecturer, Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (1985-1987)
Hospital Appointments:
Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California
Lucille-Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, California
Academic Interests:
Osteology, Scientific aspects of Tissue Integration and Healing response, Bio-molecular medicine, Infectious diseases of the Head & Neck region
Non-Academic Interests:
Hiking, Travel, Photography, Current Events, Indology, Africology, History of Medicine and Surgery, Religion & Spirituality, and Macintosh Computers
Personal Background:
Born to Indian parents in Kenya and lived in the U.S. since the age of 19. Residence is in Menlo Park with his family.
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