1965 – National Math Contest Award – top ten scores among high school students in Minnesota
1966 – National Merit Scholar
1966 – Minneapolis district high school debate championship (as a member of the 4-person team) and best speaker award (as an individual award)
1966 – Bausch & Lomb Science Award for his graduating class at Washburn High School
1966 – Paid organizer for Young Americans for Freedom for the state of Minnesota
1967-69 – State chairman, Utah Young Americans for Freedom
1968 – State chairman, Utah Youth for Nixon
1969-71 – One of first six missionaries in Spain for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1973-75 – Member of the team that created the LDS edition of the Bible, with its expanded footnotes and accompanying topical guide
1974 – B.S. in Chemistry and Secondary Education, Brigham Young University (Magna Cum Laude), with minors in math and physics
1977-78 – Instructor, Radiology Department, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry
1979 – D.D.S., University of Minnesota
1979 – Elected to membership in Omicron Kappa Upsilon (national dental honor fraternity)
1979 – Award of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons for being the most outstanding oral surgery student in his graduating class
1990 – Became one of the first fifty dentists in the world to be accredited by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry
1990-91 – Listed in Who’s Who in the Midwest
1991 – Published landmark research on tooth whitening, “Should etching be performed as a part of a vital bleaching technique?” Quintessence International, September 1991. In this widely quoted research, he established that the then prevalent practice of etching teeth prior to bleaching them was unnecessary. In accomplishing this research, he invented the split-arch technique for evaluating bleaching effectiveness, a technique that has since been widely copied.
1991-92 – Listed in Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America
1992-96 – Director of Public Affairs for eastern Iowa, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he pioneered LDS membership in local interfaith organizations
1993 – Spanish translation of above tooth whitening research published in Barcelona, Spain
1994-95 – Chaired the first Public Relations Committee of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry
1994-97 – Founded and chaired “Friends of the AACD,” an organization within the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry that reformed and restructured the AACD, in response to serious internal conflicts that threatened to destroy the organization
1994-95 – Listed in Who’s Who in Dentistry
1995 – Published one of the first cosmetic dentistry websites. This site became mynewsmile.com and in 2006 it became the most highly trafficked cosmetic dentistry website on the Internet
1996 – Elected a Fellow, International Academy for Dental-Facial Esthetics
1997-2002 – Official cosmetic dentist of the Miss Iowa USA and Miss Teen Iowa USA pageants
1999-2000 – Listed in Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare
2000 – Listed in National Registry of Who’s Who
2002 – Founded Mapletree Publishing Company
2002 – Developed and published the LDS board game, Mortality
2002 – Lecture at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, “Saving teeth with fractured roots”
2003 – Published “Eliminating fear in dentistry,” Dental Economics, February 2003
2003 – Launched mynewsmile.com as an international cosmetic dentist referral service
2004 – Published “Restauração de dentes fraturados um estudo prolongado de 4 casos,” Revista Paulista de Odontologia, Janeiro/Febereiro 2004, jointly with Sergio A.M. Ourique, chairman of the Department of Prosthodontics, University of Sao Paulo
2004 – Published “Restoration of fractured teeth, a long-term study,” Colorado Dental Journal, Fall 2004
2007 – Lecture, “Internet Marketing,” Publishers Marketing Association University at Book Expo America, New York
2009 – Founded Infinity Dental Web, Mesa, Arizona
2014 – Lecture, “Marketing your practice on the Internet in 2014,” American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry Annual Scientific Session
2017 – Lecture, “How to Harness the Power of Subconscious Marketing for Your Dental Practice,” American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry Annual Scientific Session
