Graduate Program Director - Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
University of North Carolina
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Professor Don Tyndall has been the Director of Radiology for the UNC School of Dentistry from 1988 to 2019 and serves as the course director for pre-doctoral radiology courses. Dr.Tyndall has also served as a commissioner on the North Carolina Radiation Protection Commission from 1988 to 2005 and was founder and program director of the Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Graduate Program at the School of Dentistry from 1993 to 2006. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology and was a director and past president of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology. Professor Tyndall has served two terms as the Councillor for Scientific Affairs and Public Policy on the Executive Council of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology. He is currently President-Elect of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology.
His research interests include: Caries detection, applications of cone beam computed tomography in dentistry, cone beam CT interpretation and deep learning for automated detection of abnormalities. Dr. Tyndall has been lead author or co-author in over 125 journal articles.