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Dr. Mark H.E. Lin graduated from the University Of Toronto in the Biochemistry Specialists honours program. He received his dental degree from the University of Detroit Mercy in which he was on theDean’s list for 4 consecutive years and finished within the top 5% of the class. As a senior dental student, he was selected to participate in the world-renowned Oral Maxillofacial Surgical Externship program at the Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas. He then completed a 1-year General Practice Residency program at the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, where he received his training in hospital dentistry, intravenous sedation, and advanced surgical procedures.

He practiced general dentistry for 13 years, then returned to complete his postgraduate training in the specialty of Prosthodontics at the University Of Toronto. He served as an associate in dentistry surgical demonstrator in the postgraduate Periodontics discipline, at the Implant Prosthodontic Unit (IPU) and Surgical/Prosthodontic demonstrator in the graduate Prosthodontics discipline. He was a former assistant professor at the faculty of dentistry and a former codirector of the postgraduate Prosthodontics program and the implant Prosthodontics unit (IPU), the discipline of Prosthodontics at the University of Toronto. Currently, he serves as a part-time instructor at the post-graduate prosthodontic clinic, continuing to provide surgical and prosthodontic training to the prosthodontic residents.

He conducted clinical research on the topic of “Advanced Anterior Implant Aesthetics” for his Master of Science thesis. He is also a coinvestigator for three additional scientific studies at the Faculty of Dentistry Prosthodontics discipline. He has authored and published articles in highly acclaimed peer review scientific journals. He is currently a contributing editorial board member in Prosthodontics for the Oral Health Journal. He also reviews the submitted articles to the International Journal of Oral Maxillofacial Implants (IJOMI).

He maintains a full-time specialty practice as a Prosthodontist at the multidisciplinary dental specialist center (M.D.D.S.) with a focus on full mouth reconstructions, dental implant surgery, various grafting procedures, implant prosthetics and management of implant complications. Within his specialty private practice, Dr. Lin provides mentoring to dentists for live-patient procedures performed under his direct supervision.

He is a Fellow and Diplomate with the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI) and an Associate Fellow and Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID) and also a graduate and Fellow with the Misch Implant Institute. He is a Diplomate with the American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry (ABOI).

He is a faculty member of the International Team for Implantology (ITI) in Canada and co-director of the University of Toronto’s Aesthetics residency program. He is a Fellow and serves as an Examiner with the Royal College of Dentists of Canada in the specialty of Prosthodontics. He is the founder and the director of T.I.D.E.

Dr. Lin has given numerous lectures, presentations and courses on the topics of Implant Dentistry (Surgical/ Prosthetics), live surgical and prosthetic demonstrations with patient treatment, human cadaver surgical and implant courses, anterior implant aesthetics, implant complications and practice management. Over the past 35 years, he has given more than 500 lectures at various different professional and scientific meetings in Canada, U.S.A, Taiwan, Germany, India, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, Korea, Japan and over 10 different cities in China.

Dr. Stephen Ing graduated in 1999 with his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Toronto. In 2008, he completed his three year postgraduate training in dental anesthesia at the University of Toronto. This program is unique in that it is the only one of its kind in Canada that provides focused training in sedation and general anesthesia for dental treatment. In fact, Dr. Ing is one of only a small group of dentists in Canada who have received training in both dentistry and anesthesiology. He is a diplomate of the American Dental Board of Anesthesiology and a certified specialist in dental anesthesia registered with the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario.