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Steven D Bender (Steve)

Texas A&M School of Dentistry  Clinical Associate Professor
Dallas, TX
stevenbenderdds@gmail.com
214-828-8299

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Dallas, TX
stevenbenderdds@gmail.com
214-828-8299
972-898-1943
(214) 874-4504
Texas A&M School of Dentistry
Clinical Associate Professor
Texas A&M College of Dentistry
3302 Gaston Ave.
Dallas, TX 75246
USA
4/1/2004

Additional Information

DDS, FAAOP, FAHS, FACD, DABOP
TX, USA
Yes
Diplomate ABOP

Biography

Dr. Bender is a Clinical Associate Professor in the department of Comprehensive Dentistry, Texas A&M School of Dentistry in Dallas Texas and serves as the director of Facial Pain and Sleep Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain and has earned Fellowships in the American Academy of Orofacial Pain, the American Headache Society, and the American College of Dentists. He earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas, Texas in1986 and practiced general and comprehensive restorative dentistry for 14 years. He then studied orofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders at the Parker E Mahan Facial Pain Center at the University of Florida College of Dentistry.

From 2000-2015, Dr. Bender maintained a private practice limited to pain management of the head and face, as well as sleep disorders before transitioning to a full-time faculty member at the School of Dentistry in 2016. He is a past president of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain as well as the Fourth District Dental Society of Texas and the Dallas Academy of General Dentistry.