Meet Our Dentists
Dr. David Gibson, DDS
Dr. Gibson has practiced dentistry since 1967. He opened a home office in Woodbridge in 1969 after serving with the U.S. Public Health Service from 1967 to 1969 on an Indian reservation in Arizona.
Dr. Gibson received both his Bachelors and his DDS degree from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Gibson is a member and past President of the New Haven Dental Association. Dr. Gibson is a member of the Connecticut State Dental Association, the American Dental Association, and he has achieved lifetime member status in the Academy of General Dentistry. Dr. Gibson routinely participates in continuing education; in 2007 Dr. Gibson attended the Lumineer™ course and is certified in Lumineer™ porcelain veneer restorations.
Dr. Dean Cloutier, DDS
Dr. Cloutier received his dental degree from the University of Illinois and went on to do a general practice residency at Yale New Haven Hospital where he currently teaches as an adjunct faculty member.
Dr. Cloutier is a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry and is currently pursuing his Master’s level. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Dentistry and a member of the Pierre Fauchard Society, OKU (National Honorary Dental Society), and Connecticut’s Horace Wells Society.
Dr. Cloutier is past president of the New Haven Dental Association and the Connecticut State Dental Association. He has represented Connecticut at a national level on many occasions. Dr. Cloutier provides volunteer service for Yale New Haven Hospital, Hill Health Center and Columbus House. He has also participated in foreign dental mission work and was voted one of Connecticut’s top dentists in the 2008 Connecticut Magazine survey of Top Doctors.
Dr. John Plachtyna, DDS
Dr. Plachtyna has been in private practice with the New Haven Dental Group since 1984. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Merrimack College and his DDS from Northwestern University Dental School.
Dr. Plachtyna is a Fellow in the Academy of General Dentistry and is a candidate for the Mastership level. The Academy promotes continuing education in all areas of General Dentistry. Dr. Plachtyna has invested more than 1100 hours in continuing education in an effort to provide the utmost in patient care.
Dr. Plachtyna has taught at the Yale New Haven Hospital Residency Program as an adjunct faculty member. He is currently on leave from this position.
Dr. Plachtyna is a member of the New Haven Dental Association, the Connecticut State Dental Association, the American Dental Association and is a Fellow in the Academy of General Dentistry.
Dr. Joseph Forrester, DMD
Dr. Forrester has practiced dentistry since 1996. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Niagara University and his DMD from Temple University.
Dr. Forrester completed a residency program in Oral Surgery at Albany Medical Center and he is a Fellow in the Academy of General Dentistry.
Dr. Forrester belongs to the New Haven Dental Association, the Connecticut State Dental Association, and the American Dental Association.
Dr. Diana Hede, DDS
Dr. Hede has practiced dentistry since 1984. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Manhattan College and her DDS from the Medical College of Virginia. She has proudly served in the U.S. Navy.
Dr. Hede is member of the New Haven Dental Association, the Connecticut State Dental Association, the American Dental Association, the Academy of General Dentistry, the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, and the Fairfield Dental Study Chapter.
Dr. Harvey Cedarbaum, DDS
Dr. Cedarbaum has practiced dentistry since 1953. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Yale University, his DDS from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed his residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Cedarbaum has taught dentistry since 1973 at Yale University School of Medicine. He is co-director of the General Practice Residency program at Yale New Haven Hospital. He is a Fellow at the Academy of General Dentistry. He belongs to the New Haven Dental Association, the Connecticut State Dental Association, and the American Dental Association.
Dr. Milton Wallack, DDS
Dr. Wallack has practiced dentistry since 1968. He received his Bachelor’s Degree from Brandeis University, his DDS from Temple University School of Dentistry, and his Specialty Degree in Periodontology at Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry.
Dr. Wallack has taught at Yale University School of Medicine and the Connecticut School of Dental Medicine as an adjunct faculty member. He serves as President of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, has served on the Board of Governors at the University of New Haven, and currently sits on the Board of Governors for the State of Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee.
Dr. Wallack belongs to the New Haven Dental Association where he served as past President, the Connecticut State Dental Association where he served as past Vice President, and the Connecticut Society of Periodontists where he served as past President.
Dr. Harold L. Horton, DMD, FACD
Dr. Horton’s specialty is Periodontics and implants. He graduated from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and completed his residency in Periodontics at Tufts under Dr. Irving Glickman. He is a former Air Force Veteran and has practiced in the Greater New Haven Area for over 30 years.
Dr. Horton was formerly Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Connecticut Dental School and is presently Associate Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine as well as Associate Chief of the Department of Dentistry at Yale New Haven Hospital.
He is an active member in the American Dental Association, Connecticut State Dental Association, Connecticut Society of Periodontics, Northeastern Society of Periodontics and the American Academy of Periodontics.
Dr. Horton is currently a Fellow and member of the American College of Dentists, the American Academy of Oral Medicine, the Academy of Osseointegration and the American Academy of Implantology. He is also a trustee of the New Haven Dental Association.