David A. Galbraith, D.M.D.

David was born in Miami, Florida on October 21, 1949. Initially raised
as a native Floridian, he moved eventually to Port Washington, New York
in 1960 where he completed junior and senior high school. From New York,
David moved on to Pennsylvania where he obtained a B.A. degree from Gettysburg
College. Prior to formally entering professional school David went on
to graduate school at Rutgers University in New Jersey where he spent
a year attending a Masters Program in Medical Physiology.
He began his formal professional training when he entered dental school
at Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Dentistry in 1972. Upon
graduation summa cum laude in 1976 he received the D.M.D. degree.
David completed his training by attending a residency in Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery at the University of Connecticut Health Center Affiliated Residency
Program between 1976 and 1979. From that point forward he has worked
in the private medical and dental community of Northern Connecticut
in a practice limited to the practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery.
He is currently a partner and the "managing partner" of Connecticut Maxillofacial
Surgeons, L.L.C. He only recently retired from a position as Director of the
Section of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the Department of Dentistry at
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center which he held for more than twenty
years. On the academic side of the specialty David
has received one of the highest honors in the profession by having served
a full six year term on the Advisory Committee of the American Board
of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons where he also acted as a Co-Chairman
for the Major Surgery Section examining on orthognathic surgery, facial
trauma, aesthetic surgery and craniofacial surgery. David has lectured
abroad and at home extensively on the topics of temporomandibular joint
disease and orthognathic surgery.
He enjoys a part-time faculty appointment in the Department of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Connecticut and is a Senior Active
Attending at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. He is also on the Courtesy
Staff at Hartford Hospital.
As a pass time David enjoys playing golf, being with his twin sons and
living with his wife Carol.