Kenneth Abramovitch
Professor and Chair of Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine
Rm 3114
Phone: 816- 235-2664
abramovitchk@umkc.edu
Dr. Abramovitch is Professor and Chair of the Department of Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine at the University of Missouri -Kansas City School of Dentistry. In addition to administrative responsibilities, he teaches at all levels of the dental didactic and clinical curriculum; doctoral, predoctoral, advanced education and dental hygiene.
He has held similar appointments as full professor at Loma Linda University and at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Prior to these appointments, he was also a member of the Faculty of Dentistry at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Dr. Abramovitch also maintained a private referral-based specialty practice limited to oral radiology and oral medicine that served the greater Houston metropolitan area for over twenty years.
He received his D.D.S. from McGill University and a certificate in Dental Diagnostic Sciences and an M.S degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology and a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine. Dr. Abramovitch served numerous executive capacities in organized dentistry including positions as a past president of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology and the Southwest Society of Oral Medicine.
He has been an invited speaker at over 130 international (China, Brazil, Mexico, Canada and Saudi Arabia), national, state and local professional meetings. In addition, he has presented over 150 hours of university-based, accredited continuing dental education programs.
Dr. Abramovitch has published 31 scientific abstracts and contributed over 60 articles to refereed or peer reviewed journals such as Journal of Endodontics, Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, Dentomaxillofacial Radiology and the Journal of Forensic Sciences. From 1989 to 2009, he published a popular monthly continuing series of case reports entitled “Roentgen Ray Anomalies” in the Journal of the Greater Houston Dental Society.
He recently co-authored Chapter 3: Endodontic Radiology in Endodontics: Principles and Practice 6th Ed. (Elsevier, 2020). Torabinejad M, Fouad A, and Shabahang S.
He was also one of four authors of Cone Beam CT of the Head and Neck: An Anatomical Atlas (Springer, 2011).