Education & Board Certifications

Academic medicine shapes a clinician in ways that private practice alone does not. Teaching a procedure requires a different kind of mastery than performing it: every decision has to be explainable, every technique has to hold up to questioning from residents training at the edge of the literature, and every case becomes an opportunity to refine not just an outcome but a method. Fourteen years of university-based specialty training and nearly two decades of faculty practice gave Dr. Adatrow that kind of familiarity with the why behind each step of implant, periodontal, and prosthodontic care.

That academic grounding still informs the practice today. Protocols are drawn from current evidence rather than habit, complex cases are approached with the diagnostic discipline expected in a teaching setting, and continuing education remains ongoing — both as a learner and as a contributor to the field through research, publications, and lectures.

The recognitions that have followed this work come primarily from within the profession itself — from the institutions where he trained and taught, from the specialty boards that credential his fields, and from the peers who understand what the work requires. The sections below document that record.