Welcome to Root Dental Lab
Dan Root went to work for Holman Dental Lab at the age of 16 in 1955.   In 1960, Dan entered the army reserves for a brief tour of active duty as a dental assistant.  For 6 years, he chair-sided for dental students, including Boyd Harris, from the UMKC Dental School.  Boyd encouraged Dan to open Root Laboratory in 1964 and convinced Dan that implants were the upcoming thing in dentistry.  In 1971, Dan made a full arch of fixed prosthetics for Boyd’s mouth over the Linkow-placed four blade implants.  Through Boyd’s influence, Dan started the manufacturing of subperiosteals.

In 1973, Dan attended the Alabama Implant Study Group Congress and has attended every one since.  He became a member of the AISG in the 1970’s, as well as a supporting member of the AAID, ICOI and most implant groups.  Root Lab videotaped the AISG meetings and surgical placement of implants at Dr. Ford Turner’s office.  Dan and Boyd developed the Harris-Root O-Ring Sub technique which was presented live at the AAID, AISG, and various dental schools.  For five years, at three times a year, Root Lab and Boyd taught the live surgical sub course in Fayetteville, Arkansas. For the next ten years, at six times a year,  endosseus implant and sub courses were held at Root Lab’s surgical suite and 4000 square foot lecture room in conjunction with the Dental Implant Diagnostic & Treatment Center, owned and operated by doctors Boyd Harris, Dean Doyle and James Byland.  Approximately 1500 dentists attended the Harris-Root Sub Course.

Root Lab has received numerous awards of recognition from virtually every implant association in the US.  Dan has lectured in England, France, Japan, Columbia, Mexico and Venezuela on implants and prosthetics.  Root Lab has pioneered many techniques for implant prosthetics and has for the past fifteen years been on the faculties of the Maxi Course for NYU with Dr. Norman Cranin, Medical College of Georgia with Dr. Terry Reynolds, now Dr. Ed Mills, Howard University with Dr. C. Benson Clark and other Maxi Courses.  He also has been involved with the Misch Institute, the Midwest Institute and the Scripps Institute.

Root Lab has had the benefit and pleasure of working for many members and past presidents of the AAID, as well as members of other implant organizations.  To date, Root Lab has manufactured over 20,000 subperiosteal implants, 54,000 fixed units on blades, and restored more than 108,000 root forms.  Root Laboratory has worked for 28 universities and institutions, 23 foreign countries and all 50 states.  Root Lab has several employees with 30 years of individual lab experience; the combined experience of all lab technicians totals more than 1600 years.  Dan has been married  for 43 years and has 2 sons, 1 daughter, and twin grandchildren (age 6).  All but the grandchildren are in the dental lab business.