Jeril R. Cooper III, DMD, is a professor in the Department of General Dentistry at the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University. He maintained a full-time general dentistry practice for 30 years before joining academia, where he has an active faculty practice in addition to providing clinical supervision and serving as a member of the Augusta University Esthetic Team. A member of the Pierre Fauchard Academy and Hinman Society, as well as a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry, Cooper received Augusta University’s Judson C. Hickey Award in 2008.