Meet Dr. Howard Chasolen

Welcome to Chasolen Education ONLINE. I developed the Education Center in 2007 as the result of my perceived need to discuss and pass on the education, knowledge and experience I have accumulated in my 29 years as a student, clinician and educator. 

The Education Center provides dentists and their teams with evidence and clinical based information and interaction that allows the opportunity for the dental practitioner to achieve the highest level of treatment outcome for each individual patient in their practice.

I noticed that many of the lecture circuit gurus were no longer primarily making their living at the chair.

With that absence comes a disconnect from the issues that face clinical dentists every day.

My perspective is grounded in both clinical practice and academic experience. I maintain a busy clinical practice, spending approximately 150 days each year chairside and working directly with the complex clinical challenges dentists face today.

Throughout my career, I have reconstructed more than 1,500 full arches for patients with complex periodontal, restorative, implant, and TMD needs, frequently working within a multidisciplinary setting.

My academic experience includes a former part time faculty position at the University of Florida, where I worked with residents in the Graduate Prosthodontic Residency Program.

I have also trained private practice dentists in a variety of educational settings, including seminars, small group in office workshops, online programs, and one on one instruction. This combination of daily clinical experience and dental education allows me to teach from the perspective of both the practitioner and the educator.

I wanted to share my experiences with the profession: the principles and approaches that have allowed me to help thousands of patients, the experiences that have led to occasional compromised outcomes, and what I have learned from those experiences. The reality of the significance of occlusal philosophies and their impact on short term and long term treatment outcomes. Analog and digital implant prosthetics and the gamut of immediate loading. My experience with restorative materials and long term prognosis. Adhesive dentistry and the foundation that adhesive cores provide for all future restorative and cosmetic dentistry. Telescopic periodontal/prosthetic reconstruction when implant reconstruction is not an option. The management of parafunction post treatment. The integration of instrumentation and technology into simple and complex dentistry. And all of the components, including interpersonal patient management, that are needed in today’s restorative dental practice to make a successful dental practitioner and a successful treatment outcome.

The goal of ChasolenOnline is to educate dentists and their teams so that they may help their patients and provide appropriate evaluation, diagnosis, planning, treatment and management the FIRST TIME. Much of my clinical dental practice is treating the unfortunate referred patient that has already been unsuccessfully treated elsewhere several times. This just shouldn’t and doesn’t have to happen. My personal mission through ChasolenOnline is to influence as many dentists as possible, in a positive fashion, and help them incorporate principles of restorative dentistry that will enhance their lives and their patients lives.

Howard M. Chasolen, DMD, FACD, FAAID
Specialist in Prosthodontics

Dr. Howard Chasolen graduated from Rutgers University School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1991.

He continued his education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, earning a specialty certificate in Prosthodontics and a fellowship certificate in Implant Prosthodontics between 1991 and 1994.

He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Implant Dentistry and the American College of Dentists.

Dr. Chasolen is an active member of numerous professional organizations, including the American College of Prosthodontists, International College of Prosthodontists, Florida Prosthodontic Association, Academy of Osseointegration, American Academy of Implant Dentistry, International College of Oral Implantologists, American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, Florida Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, Pierre Fauchard Academy, and American Dental Association.

His leadership roles include serving as Past President of the Florida Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, Florida Prosthodontic Association, and Sarasota County Dental Association.

Dr. Chasolen previously served as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Florida School of Dental Medicine, where he taught residents in the postgraduate specialty program in Prosthodontics. He is also the founder of the Chasolen Education & Research Center, where he provides advanced education for dentists from around the world. He teaches throughout the United States and provides more than 75 hours of continuing education each year.

His private practice in Sarasota, Florida, focuses on prosthodontics, cosmetic dentistry, implant dentistry, and the restoration of patients with complex interdisciplinary needs. Throughout his career, he has restored more than 30,000 crown and bridge units and more than 17,000 dental implants.

Dr. Chasolen, his wife, Freedom, and their daughter, Madison, are proud members of the Sarasota community.