Dr. Kyle McCrea is a graduate of Texas A&M University and the Dental School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He broadened his training by participating in a General Practice Residency Program at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He has practiced in the greater Houston area since 1990 and in Richmond since 1994. The practice provides the full range of dental services for adults and children.

Dr. McCrea has studied orthodontics for its ability to allow a patient’s own teeth to be used to improve their smile. He offers both conventional braces, with wires and brackets and now recently started offering clear aligner therapy using Clear Corrects technology.

He teaches part time as a Clinical Assistant Professor for the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program at the Dental Branch in Houston. He provides residents with talks concerning denture and partial denture impression technique, associateships, Lumineers, insurance, budgets, exams, etc. Dr. McCrea also helps the residents in clinic with procedures they are learning and with the development of treatment plans for their patients.

He is a fellow in the Academy of General Dentistry, an award earned by participating on over 500 hours of continuing education and is well on his way to earning Mastership in the Academy. He is a Pankey Institute Alumnus. He has completed Continuums I, II, IIE and the Special topics program on Dentures at the Pankey Institute in Florida. The Pankey Institute is an independent educational institution that emphasizes the role of occlusion (the way teeth fit together) and comprehensive treatment. Dr. McCrea has a category II laser certification, and he uses an ND:Yag laser for soft tissue procedures. He completed a two year program on differential straight wire technique (Tip Edge) with the Academy of the General Practice Orthodontics in 2007. Building on that program, Dr. McCrea completed a one week Mini ‘Residency’ in February 2008 with Tip Edge instructor Ron Austin DDS. Dr. McCrea and several of his classmates from the two year program meet on a bimonthly basis to review information and to discuss Tip Edge technique.