ABOUT ME
Dr. Melkers is in private practice in Hanover, NH but impacts students, clinicians and patients worldwide
Dr. Melkers is a 1994 graduate of Marquette University School of Dentistry & currently serves as Visiting Faculty at RÄ«ga Stradiņš University in Riga, Latvia & as Advisor and Visiting Faculty for The Pankey Institute in Key Biscayne, Florida.
Dr. Melkers is a Fellow & Master of the Academy of General Dentistry and holds additional Fellowships in the International Congress of Oral Implantologists and the American College of Dentists. He maintains a private clinical practice in Hanover, NH with a focus on comprehensive adult restorative care. Dr. Melkers balances his professional time between clinical practice, teaching, publishing and research.
In the past, he has been Director of Occlusion & Aesthetic Dentistry at the Pacific Northwest AEGD Residency Program and Visiting Faculty at The Spear Institute. He completed his tenure as Editor for the American Equilibration Society and received the 2018 AES President’s Distinguished Service Award for his service. He is the current AES Secretary, in the Leadership Track for Presidency. He has been involved with the Academy of General Dentistry at a local, state and national level for his entire career
Dr. Melkers has served as the Director for Educator Development for RIPEGlobal, as well as the Co-Director for their Fellowship in Restorative Dentistry.
His mission is to help students, teams and clinicians realize what is possible and improve the level of patient care, worldwide.
PASSIONS IN TEACHING
KEEPING YOUR RESTORATIONS & REPUTATIONS INTACT
Broken restoration can be easy to fix. Damaged reputations are difficult if not impossible to restore. I'd like to help keep them both intact!
ENGAGING LECTURES
Dr. Melkers is a seasoned presenter and has a gift for creating engagement with audiences large or small. He is not afraid to share his failures, challenges and solutions.
VALUE-BASED, PATIENT CENTRIC COMMUNICATION & CASE PLANNING
If we cannot understand and be understood, we cannot help our patients toward health. It is all about the way and where there is a why, there is a way,
REAL WORLD APPROACHES TO REAL WORLD CHALLENGES
I have worked in a welfare office, a DSO, an insurance based PPO practice, scratch started a FFS practice, sold it and purchased a FFS practice. There is not much that I cannot relate to and respect the challenges of.
PRACTICAL HANDS-ON PROGRAMS
Exercises are designed for all levels to take away useful knowledge and skills. Dr. Melkers regularly facilitates hands-on programs for AGD Mastertracks and private groups, aside from his own programs..
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES
IMPACTFUL WORKSHOPS
Whether in his Treatment Planning or Communication Workshops, attendees will build the skills and gain the confidence to put them to use when they get home. This is not a course about scripts but learning how to interact and engage with logical comfort and confidence.