UF College of Dentistry appoints new director to advanced education program in prosthodontics

Glenn E. Turner, D.M.D., has been appointed director of the advanced education program in prosthodontics at the University of Florida College of Dentistry. The appointment is effective July 1, although Turner will serve as acting director beginning with the June 15 retirement of Carl A. Hansen, D.D.S., the program’s director of four years.

Turner has served as the director for maxillofacial services at the University of Florida since 1984 and will continue in this role, providing prostheses for otolaryngology, plastic surgery, and oral and maxillofacial surgery.

A 1970 graduate of the University of Alabama, Turner completed specialty training in prosthodontics in 1980 and a one-year fellowship in maxillofacial prosthetics in 1981 to earn a master’s of science degree in dentistry from the University of Alabama. Turner is the secretary-treasurer of the American Association of Maxillofacial Prosthetics, and has served as a member of the AAMFP board of directors for the past 12 years. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics, a fellow of the American College of Dentists, International College of Dentists and the American College of Prosthodontics. He is past president of the Florida Prosthodontic Association.