Dr. Gary Michels

Dr. Gary Michels has been serving the public of eastern North Carolina for over thirty years. He has been involved in the community by serving on church councils and chairing school boards. He is co-founder of the Dream Factory of North Carolina. This charity has granted over 250 dreams to seriously ill children in eastern NC. Dr. Michels has lectured to dental societies and founded a learning center in the area of post graduate education. He has authored a book, Unusual Success in Dentistry, which has allowed Dr. Michels to lecture across North Carolina and to train other dentists at his facility here in Greenville.

Currently, aside from running a state-of-the-art clinical dental practice in Greenville, North Carolina, Dr. Michels is also passing on his passion for dentistry and clinical knowledge to younger dentists in his position as adjunct professor at the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine.

His prominence in the dental profession began as early at his graduation, from dental school at Emory University in 1980. At the graduation ceremony he was honored with clinical awards, inducted as a member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon, a national dental honor society, and “With Honors,” signifying a class rank of number two out of ninety-three dentists.

Dr. Michels is a member of the American Dental Association, the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, and the North Carolina Dental Society. He is also a member of the most prominent group, Advanced Dental Implant Studies. Dr. Gary Michels recently earned an Associate Fellow in the American Academy of Implant Dentistry as well as a Fellow in the International Congress of Oral Implantology.

Decades ago, Dr. Michels began his cosmetic dental training with a man many consider to be the founder of cosmetic dentistry, Dr. Ronald Goldstein. More recently, Dr. Michels has continued his studies with the most noted cosmetic dentists in the United States including, “the dentist of the stars” Larry Rosenthal of New York.

Dr. Michels has dedicated himself to becoming uniquely qualified to assist his patients in having the brightest, healthiest smiles imaginable. Today, Dr. Michels is more passionate than ever about putting smiles on the faces of his patients. Visit our new office, and ask to see slide shows and testimonials from his patient family. You will be both moved and impressed.