Capital Dental Centre

Dr. Amar Kuruganti grew up in the lovely small city of Brockville, Ontario. He began his journey towards becoming a dentist at the University of Guelph where he graduated with his Honors Bachelor of Science in Human Kinetics and a Master of Science in Human Biology and Nutritional Science. Deciding to further develop his social science background, he then went on to complete an Honors Bachelor of Health Sciences degree from the University of Ottawa and graduated with highest honors (Summa Cum Laude). Dr. Kuruganti then moved to London, Ontario where he completed his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from Western University. Upon graduation, he was awarded the prestigious Canadian Dental Association’s Student Leadership Award for demonstrating outstanding leadership, scholarship, character and humanity and the Dr. John McLister Service Award for demonstrating exceptional leadership and service to the profession of dentistry. Throughout his undergraduate, graduate and dental school career Dr. Kuruganti was a prominent student leader who was involved in a vast array of volunteer and extracurricular activities. He is a member of the Canadian Dental Society, Ontario Dental Association, Ottawa Dental Society and the Academy of General Dentistry.

Dr. Mark McCullough received his DDS from the University of Toronto, and his B.Sc from the University of Western Ontario. His lifelong passion has been dentistry; a goal he set at the young age of 12, and finally realized in 2002. Relocating to Ottawa from Peterborough in 2004, his main focus has become the implementation of cutting edge technology as well as educating dentists nationally and internationally on these technologies. Dr. McCullough is one of a handful of dentists in Canada that have been trained on Integrated Implantology. Using 3D cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) and combining it with intraoral scanning, allows Dr. McCullough to produce a 3D model of the patient. Now the dentistry and surgery he performs can be simulated first on a virtual model, resulting in definitive precision within fractions of millimeters. Another technology, CEREC (Chairside Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramics), allows him to use CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design/Computer Assisted Manufacturing) to design a tooth (crown or onlay), so that teeth can be restored in a single appointment, rather than multiple appointments. Dr. McCullough has a continued passion for learning, both educating himself and educating other dentists. His more recent qualifications have been in IV sedation, microscope enhanced dentistry, digital dentistry, and integrated implantology. He is also one of the only dentists in the country qualified to place full zirconia dental implants (Ceraroot) in addition to common titanium dental implants. Dr. McCullough has been teaching at Algonquin College since 2005 and sits on the college’s Dental Advisory Committee. He also lectures both nationally and internationally on dental technology and integrated implantology. With his colleague and close friend of over 30 years, Dr. Winlow, they helped establish a program with CHEO (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario) where they re-establish the oral health of cancer survivors in need of treatment. Dr. McCullough is an active member of the Ottawa Dental Society Council, established the Ottawa CEREC study club, co-founded Capital Dentistry and the Capital Dentistry study club, and beta tests materials and methods for many major dental companies in digital implant, restorative and sleep dentistry.