Dr. Damone Smith is a Board Certified Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon who is well trained, compassionate, and dedicated to the care of his patients. He is proficient and knowledgeable in many advanced areas of oral and maxillofacial surgery, including dental implantology, facial cosmetics, head and neck trauma, ambulatory anesthesia, dentoalveolar disorders, temporomandibular joint disorders, corrective jaw surgery, dental extractions (wisdom teeth), management of pathology and many other disorders.

Why is Dr. Smith being a board certified Oral and Maxillofacial surgeon, or a Diplomate of the America Board of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery important? Not every Oral surgeon is board certified.

What does being board certified mean? This is the certifying board for the speciality of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the United States and is recognised and approved by the council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association. This means that he has successfully completed and passes a rigorous peer evaluation. This national examination includes both a written and a verbal component, and must be recertified with a new exam every ten years. This examination assure that Dr. Smith has maintained appropriate professional credentials, is proficient and current with all aspects of oral surgery, and is practising with standards at a national level.

Dr. Smith completed dental school at University of Michigan in 1996, and completed his surgical training at University of California Los Angles in 2000 with an emphasis in implants, orthognathics (corrective jaw surgery), and trauma. Dr. smith was an active adjunctive professor at Nova Southeastern University Dental school from 2006 to 2017. Dr. Smith has been in private practice in Florida since 2003.