Meet Dr. Tony Michelakis

Dr. Anthony (Tony) Michelakis is a 1990 graduate of The Ohio State University College of Dentistry. After practicing 7 years in Warren, Ohio, Dr. Michelakis opened a practice on Oak Island, NC. Tony and his wife Laura, a registered dental hygienist, have two daughters, Lilly and Carly. Dr. Michelakis and his family love working and living in Brunswick County. From day one they felt welcomed into the community with open arms. “I thank God every day for the opportunity to live and work in such a wonderful community,” Dr. Michelakis said.

“We proudly deliver all phases of dentistry without patients having to leave Brunswick County.”

Dr. Michelakis enjoys all phases of dentistry, especially dental implants, root canal therapy, and crown and bridge work. He also holds a minimum conscious sedation license.

In November 2008, Dr. Tony completed 216 hours of continued education in a nine-month implant continuum taught by the Triangle Dental Institute in Research Triangle Park, NC. His training included lectures, workshops, and one-on-one mentoring on implant surgical placement and restoration, associated bone preservation and ridge augmentation grafting, and connective tissue grafting.

Most recently, Dr.Tony received a Fellowship Award from the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI). The ICOI was founded in 1972 and has 12,000 members worldwide in 89 countries. It is the world’s largest dental implant organization, as well as the world’s largest provider of continuing dental implant education and currently has 2,582 active Fellows in the United States. The awarding of Fellowship status is one of the highest honors a professional society, such as the ICOI, can bestow on a dental professional involved in oral implantology. Nominees achieve Fellowship status through their efforts in education, research and actual clinical experiences.

“We now have the capability to help people who thought they never could chew food properly again. We can place the titanium implant, and in a few short weeks
restore the implant with a porcelain crown giving the patient
a beautiful, functional long lasting restoration.”

These restorations include single crowns, bridges and implant supported over-dentures. He also enjoys CEREC dentistry. CEREC uses a CAD-system to produce quality, long lasting porcelain crowns and fillings in one appointment. CEREC eliminates the need for temporary crowns that can sometimes be problematic. The top CEREC instructors in the country have trained Dr. Michelakis.

Dr. Michelakis volunteers at the New Hope Clinic for low income residents.