Dr. Howard A. Popper is a life-long New Yorker.  He grew up in New York City and attended the prestigious Stuyvesant High School.  His college education was at Brooklyn College, followed by his dental education at Howard University School of Dentistry in Washington D.C.  He graduated in 1971 and received the American Academy of Periodontology award for excellence in Periodontics.  He continued his dental education in the graduate program in Periodontology at Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry, graduating in 1973.  In 1979, he achieved the status of Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology.

He is a member of numerous dental organizations, including the American Academy of Periodontology, the Academy of Osseointegration, the Northeastern Society of Periodontists, the American Dental Association, New York State Dental Association, and the Suffolk County Dental Society.  For more than thirty years he was the program chairman of the Western Suffolk Dental Study Club, providing hundreds of hours of continuing dental education for local dentists.  He has lectured both locally and nationally.  Dr. Popper has been practicing Periodontics since 1973, with offices in Melville and Port Jefferson Station in Suffolk County.

In 1985, Dr. Popper received his Branemark Training Certificate, which was the first U.S. dental implant course.He has placed thousands of dental implants since 1985.

Dr. Popper has published articles in the International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry, the Journal of Periodontology, and the Annals Dentistry, in the areas of Implant Dentistry, Periodontal Surgery, and Oral Medicine.

In 2004, he received the much coveted 25 year certificate as a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology.  In 2001, he completed the Branemark Novum Certification Course and placed the first Branemark Novum implant case in Suffolk County.

In 2006, Dr. Popper completed the Teeth-In-An-Hour course and he placed the first Teeth-In-An-Hour cases in all of Long Island.

He is one of the pioneers of the Immediate Load Procedure where the dental implants and teeth are placed in one day, including the new All-On-Four procedure.  Most of the implant treatment is done with a flapless, minimally invasive approach.  The vast majority of his patients are treated in conjunction with a Board Certified medical or dental anesthesiologists, providing intravenous conscious sedation, so that the patients are monitored in a safe and comfortable environment.  All of the procedures are done in a state-of-the-art surgical suite in his office.

His daughter, Dr. Marlisa Popper, has been in practice for five years and is entering the Prosthodontic Graduate program at New York University.  Marlisa’s husband, Dr. Evan Lynn, is an Endodontist, currently practicing in New York City.  He graduated from the New York University Endodontic Graduate Program in 2005.  In addition,  Evan is currently a fellow at the NYU Department of Implant Dentistry.