Dr. Michael Ellis is a clinical associate professor at TAMU College of Dentistry and Baylor University Medical Center with a wealth of experience in the military, the private practice of general dentistry, prosthodontics, and oral and maxillofacial surgery, along with a proven career in academics. Raised in Dallas, Texas, he attended SMU and Baylor College of Dentistry prior to owning a well-established practice of general dentistry in Dallas for 6 years. Returning to Baylor College of Dentistry, he then completed consecutive residencies in prosthodontics and oral and maxillofacial surgery before entering onto active duty in the U.S. Army. He has served as the program director and chief in multiple advanced education programs in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and has managed the most difficult of patients to include acute combat-related injuries, critically-ill transplant and cancer patients, acute facial trauma from motor-vehicle accidents, interpersonal violence, sports injuries, severe odontogenic infections, facial deformities requiring orthognathic surgery, and challenging ablative pathology requiring multiple forms of reconstruction.
