A Dallas area native and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Southern Methodist University, Dr. Bell received his dental degree in 1979 from the Baylor College of Dentistry,
and completed Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery training at
Baylor University Medical Center in 1984.
As an active member of the American Dental Association
and the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons, he currently serves in the AAOMS House of
Delegates. He has previously completed terms as president of both the Texas Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the Southwest
Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Most recently, Dr. Bell served as the
Chairman of the Oral and Maxillofacial Political Action Committee Board of Directors,
and recently was elected President of the American Board of Oral Maxillofacial
Surgery.
Dr. Bell serves as a Clinical Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Baylor
College of Dentistry; Texas A&M University Health Center. He holds fellowship status
in both the American and International College of Dentists.
Dr. Bell maintains an active private practice. He is married and has two sons. He enjoys
all types of outdoor activities, snow-skiing and woodworking.
Dr. Douglas J. Dingwerth
Douglas J. Dingwerth, DMD, MD joined Oral Surgery
Associates of North Texas in 2002. Dr. Dingwerth was
born and raised in southern Illinois. He received his
bachelors degree from Washington University in
St. Louis in 1991, where he played collegiate basketball.
In 1995 Dr. Dingwerth earned his Doctor of Dental
Medicine from Southern Illinois University. During dental
school, he was elected to the Omicron Kappa Upsilon
and Phi Kappa Phi honor society.
He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Texas Tech in 1998. After which, he
completed his internship in General Surgery and his Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Residency at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Dingwerth is an adjunct assistant professor at Baylor College of Dentistry. He is
also a staff physician at Baylor University Medical Center. He is Board Certified by the
American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and holds licenses in both medicine
and dentistry in Texas.
He is a very active in oral and maxillofacial surgery professional societies as a member
of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Southwest Society of
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Texas Society of OMS, North Texas Society of OMS
and a fellow of the International Team for Implantology (ITI). His surgical interests
include dental implants, wisdom teeth, corrective jaw surgery, dental extractions, facial
trauma, and oral pathology.
Basketball continues to be one of Dr. Dingwerth’s favorite past times while he also
enjoys golf, fly fishing and traveling. He and his wife, Karla, have two children. The
family enjoys being active members of their church and community.
Dr. Maxwell D. Finn
Dr. Finn joined Oral Surgery Associates of North Texas
in 1997. With an interest in health care dating back to
his early teenage years, he was chosen to attend the
High School for Health Professions magnet school in
Houston, Texas. He later received a B.S. degree in biology from Baylor University. He went on to earn his
D.D.S. degree from Baylor College of Dentistry and an
M.D. degree from Texas Tech. He has additionally
earned certificates for internship in both oral and
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maxillofacial surgery and general surgery as well as a certificate for residency in oral
and maxillofacial surgery, all from Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.
He is currently an attending physician at Baylor University Medical Center and a Clinical
Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Dentistry. He is licensed in Texas in both dentistry and medicine and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery and a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.
He is very active in his field as past president of the Texas Society of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgeons, the North Texas Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
and the Oak Cliff Dental Study Club. He also received the high honor of being
appointed by the Governor to the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners in 2008. He
frequently lectures on a variety of topics in oral and maxillofacial surgery.
Dr. Finn’s surgical interests include dental implants, wisdom teeth and reconstructive
jaw surgery and grafting. His outside interests include anything his children are doing.
He was once the national unicycle trick-riding champion and appeared in various
shows, parades and TV commercials with his brother and sisters.
Dr. Finn and his wife Tiffany, who is also a dentist, are active members of the community and their church and are the proud parents of their daughters Lily and Ava.
Dr. Phillip R. Newton
Phillip R. Newton, DDS, MD is a Cum Laude graduate
of Tulane University with a Bachelor of Science Biomedical Engineering Degree. He received his DDS degree
from Baylor College of Dentistry and completed his
Doctor of Medicine degree at Texas Tech Health
Science Center.
Before joining our practice, Dr. Newton fulfilled his Oral
and Maxillofacial Residency at Texas A & M Health Science Center as we