Dr. O. Hilt Tatum
Co-founder of the JU Comprehensive Oral Implantology Residency Program
Hilt Taum, Jr, DDS has been instrumental in the development of The AAID/JU 3year residency in "Comprehensive Oral Implantology". He has devoted his 65year dental career attempting to serve his patients and share what he has learned with others. He has introduced many of the foundation components which are utilized in COI and he hopes to continue this service during the development of this residency program. Tatum graduated from the now defunct Emory University Dental School in 1957. He had several University faculty appointments in the USA and for 25 years was on the faculty of The Lille University School of medicine in France. Dr. Tatum also served as President of both the American Academy of Implant Dentistry and the American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry. On June 16, 2003, he was awarded The French Legion of Honour by President Jacques Chirac in Paris, France. Following this, he established a training course in Birmingham, England where he trained multiple dentists on how to expand bone, place implants and graft sinuses. He continues to work into his eighth decade.