Dr. Nathan Simcha Birnbaum, DDS CAGS
ProsthodonticsNPI: 1740206259
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Dr. Nathan Birnbaum is a prosthodontist with over 20 years of clinical experience and an impressive 40-year teaching career at leading dental schools including Boston University, Harvard, and Tufts University. He specializes in advanced restorative and esthetic dentistry, with particular expertise in digital impression technology and CAD/CAM systems—areas where he has published internationally recognized research alongside his daughter and colleague, Dr. Heidi Aaronson. A fellow of both the American College of Dentists and the International College of Dentists, Dr. Birnbaum brings extensive training from Northwestern University Dental School and Boston University's graduate prosthodontics program to his Wellesley practice. He is accepting new patients and speaks Russian in addition to English.
Specialties
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Education & Training
- A.B. from Harvard College
- D.D.S. from Northwestern University Dental School
- Specialty certificate in Prosthodontics from Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry
- Cme-prosthodontics-boston University School Of Graduate Dentistry1974
- Northwestern University-d.d.s.Medical School, 1972
- Harvard College-a.b.Undergraduate School, 1968
Board Certifications
- Fellow of the American College of Dentists
- CAGS (Prosthodontics)
- DDS
- Fellow of the International College of Dentists
- Omicron Kappa Upsilon membership
Credential: DDS CAGS
NPI registered: 07/15/2006
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Areas of Focus
Technology & Equipment
- Digital impression devices
- CAD/CAM systems
Professional Memberships
- American College of Dentists
- International College of Dentists
- Omicron Kappa Upsilon
- Alpha Omega International Dental Society
Awards & Recognition
- Trudy Birger Community Service Award
- Certificate of Merit from Alpha Omega International Dental Society
Beyond the Office
Teaching career of 40 years beginning in 1974 as Assistant Clinical Professor of Prosthodontics at Boston University
Clinical Instructor of Prosthodontics at Harvard University School of Dental Medicine
Associate Clinical Professor of Prosthodontics and Operative Dentistry at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Continuing Dental Education Faculty at Boston University for 12 years
Editorial Team of Esthetic Dentistry Research Group for over 30 years
Consultant to dental manufacturers
Founded Dental Aid for Russian Emigr in 1989, enlisting 70 dentists to provide low-cost dental care to Soviet emigr immigrants
Organized Dental Assistance for Survivors of the Holocaust, coordinating 123 dentists and laboratories to provide free dental care to over 100 Holocaust survivors
Works alongside his daughter, Dr. Heidi Aaronson, for the past 13 years
Co-authored articles with his daughter on digital impression taking, some reaching over 8,000 international reads and 140+ citations
Co-authored a chapter on 'Digital Impression Devices and CAD/CAM Systems' in the 3rd edition of a major esthetics dentistry textbook
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