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Holiday Closure - 

UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry will be closed Wednesday, Dec. 24, through Friday, Jan. 2, in observance of winter break. The School of Dentistry will reopen Monday, Jan. 5, and clinical operations will resume that afternoon. The Urgent Care Clinic is by appointment only.

photo of Chun-Teh Lee

Chun-Teh Lee

DDS, DMSc, MS
Professor
Director of Periodontics Research
SOD 6426
713-486-4384
[email protected]

Dr. Chun-Teh Lee’s research focuses on the interaction between inflammation and oral microbiota in health and disease. Dr. Lee is also active in evidence-based dentistry and wrote several articles of systematic review and meta-analysis. He is an active member of the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP), American Dental Education Association (ADEA), and International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR).

In 2020, he was appointed director of research for the Department of Periodontics and Dental Hygiene. He is holder of the John M. Powers Professorship for Pre- & Postdoctoral Student Research.

Education

DDS | National Taiwan University School of Dentistry, Taipei, Taiwan, 2007
MS and Certificate in Periodontics | Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, NY, 2012
DMSc in Oral Biology | Harvard School of Dental Medicine, 2015

Research

Clinical Interests

Periodontal treatments and implant treatments

Languages Spoken

English, Chinese