Dr. Robert R. White received his bachelor's degree from Colgate University and his DMD from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his internship at the University of Rochester, followed by service as chief resident at the New York University Brookdale Hospital. His endodontic certificate was granted by Tufts University, where he remained in full-time academics for 17 years. During that tenure, he served as director of both pre- and postdoctoral programs, as well as acting department chair. He joined the faculty at HSDM in 1996.

Dr. White is a diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics and a founding member of the College of Diplomates. He has served as the chair of the American Association of Endodontists Research and Scientific Affairs Committee and the Evidence-Based Endodontics Committee. He is a past president of the Massachusetts Association of Endodontists and a former consultant to the ADA Commission on Accreditation.

Dr. White and his residents have numerous publications, and he is an editor for the Journal of Endodontics. Dr. White maintains an active practice limited to endodontics at the Harvard Dental Center at HSDM.

Fields of Interest

Dr. White’s varied research interests embrace sealers and filling materials, endodontic microbiota, and root resorption. With his residents, he is also involved in a multicenter clinical study of nonsurgical endodontic outcomes.