Dr. T. Matthew Jacks, DDS

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More about Dr. T. Matthew Jacks, DDS

Dr. T. Matthew Jacks attended Indiana University School of Dentistry from 1993-1997 on full scholarship via the US Navy. After graduation, he and his family moved to Chesapeake, VA where Dr. Jacks completed his one-year internship in Hospital Dentistry at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, VA. In 1998, he and his family received three-year order to the US Naval Hospital in Okinawa, Japan. There, Dr. Lieutenant Jacks ran the most productive dental practice in the US Navy. He authored and published multiple articles and was a featured lecturer at military conferences as well as television interviews. He was ranked the number one surgeon throughout the entire hospital command. In 2001, Dr. Jacks embarked on his residency training at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. He completed his medical and surgical training in 2005 with emphasis in the areas of craniofacial, micro-neurosurgical, TMJ and reconstructive surgery. While at UNC, he became a researcher and lecturer for the most ambitious clinical study by the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (AAOMS): The Third Molar Clinical Trials (under mentorship of Raymond White, DDS, PhD). Dr. Jacks authored and presented three abstracts at three annual meetings for AAOMS, with four concomitant publications in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He was awarded "Best Abstract" from AAOMS/Syntheses in 2004. In 2005, Commander Dr. Jacks was sent to the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC), Bethesda, MD. He was the first Navy Oral Surgeon to become an attending surgeon at "The President's Hospital immediately following residency training. Within one year , he assumed the role of Director over the Navy Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) residency training program after receiving his board certification. In 2007, Dr. Jacks became the Chairman of the OMFS Department at The Naval Postgraduate Dental School. He worked closely with the prosthodontic and periodontic staff and residents with heavy emphasis on dental implants and graft augmentation to the jaws. That year, he authored a key chapter in the most important contemporary reference collection in the OMFS community: Fonseca's Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 2nd edition. Additionally, Dr. Jacks directed four week-long CE course for over 200 dentists and surgeons from 2007 to 2008 and directed and taught the most successful (highest par-rate) board review course for OMFS. From 2005 to 2007, Dr. Jacks was the most prolific and productive Oral Surgeon at NNMC. With over 400 main operating room cases including the surgical reconstruction and rehabilitation of 60 casualties of war, Dr. Jacks has the unique experience of using the most cutting edge technology to restore the facial skeleton to ideal form and function. In dozen of cases, he has recreated upper and lower jaws through grafting and augmentation procedures and restored function with the latest dental implant technology. These cases have also benefited from Dr. Jacks' full-scope experience in facial cosmetic surgery. In 2008, Dr. Comandar Jacks became the Head of Department of Maxillofacial Surgery and Hospital Dentistry at NNMC

Education & experience

Education

Indiana University

University of North Carolina, Residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

University of North Carolina, Internship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Practice

Friendship Smiles

Certifications

American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Background

Languages spoken

English

Gender

Male

NPI number

#1568442820

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