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A graduate in Honours Biochemistry from McMaster University, Dr. Filo earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Toronto in 1984. He successfully completed a course in Dental Education for the Care of the Disabled from the School of Dentistry, University of Washington in 1995. Dr. Filo became a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry, in 1996, and completed a Post Graduate Program in Esthetic Dentistry, in 1997, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 2003 he received his Diplomate status from the American Board of Hypnosis in Dentistry. In 2008 he was inducted into the Pierre Fauchard Academy as a Fellow. The Academy is an honour society recognizing leadership in the dental community.

He maintains membership in a variety of dental and allied professional organizations including the Canadian and Ontario Dental Associations, the Hamilton Academy of Dentistry, the American and International Societies of Clinical Hypnosis, and the Wilderness Medical Society. He is also a member of the Academy of General Dentistry.

Dr. Filo is actively involved in the dental community serving on various committees. Formerly an Executive Member and Past President of the Hamilton Academy of Dentistry, Dr. Filo was a General Councilor of the Ontario Dental Association where he received their service Award in 2010 for his many years of commited leadership. He has been on the teaching staff of the Dental Internship program at the Hamilton General Hospital, as well as providing dental service at the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital. He has taught hypnosis internationally to dentists and other healthcare professionals for the clinical hypnosis societies. As an experienced laser dentist, he has also lectured on the subject.