Dr. Spivey is an experienced practitioner and dental educator. He has worked as a clinical instructor teaching dental students in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Michigan subsequent to graduating from dental school. This experience included extracting wisdom teeth, providing biopsies, and intravenous sedation. After completing a postdoctoral masters degree at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, he was appointed professor in Periodontics. He taught dental implant surgery to residents and worked in the faculty dental practice. In addition, he mentored, published and presented several classifications of dental research. At the University of Iowa he was co-chair of the Interdepartmental Dental Implant Team and introduced several new implant systems to the Periodontal department, while providing interdisciplinary periodontal services throughout the dental college. Since 1995, Dr. Spivey has been in full-time private practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His practice centers on periodontics and dental implant services. He is known for his exceptional interpersonal skills, while excelling at clinical surgical care. As an experienced board certified specialist in periodontics, he provides traditional mucogingival, resective, and regenerative periodontal surgeries. He routinely performs dental implant care from a simple single tooth replacement to the most complex sinus lift, bone grafting, and full arch dental surgery. His passion includes providing high quality, innovative periodontal services to the surrounding communities and professional services to national dental organizations. His goals involve working with the dental community to expand the concept of interdisciplinary health care, which encourages dentists and physicians to collaborate with periodontal specialists to provide comprehensive diagnosis and treatment. This emphasizes dental care that is evidence based, high quality, cost effective, and choice centered.Specialties: Board Certified in PeriodonticsDiplomate of The American Board of PeriodontologyDiplomate of The American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant DentistryFellow of The American Academy of Oral Implant DentistryFellow, American College of Dentist