Full Time
Likith V. Reddy, DDS, M.D., FACS, Associate Professor, Department Head and Head of the Department of Dentistry at Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (MSLNO)
John N. Kent, DDS., Boyd Professor
Michael O'Brien, DDS., J.D., Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Jon Perenack, DDS, M.D., Assistant Professor and Director of Residency Training
Part-Time
Michael S. Block, D.M.D., Clinical Professor and Director of Research
Charles G. Hornsby, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor and Chief, Earl K. Long Hospital (EKL Hospital)
Dale J. Misiek, DMD, Clinical Professor and Residency Director Charlotte, NC
Richard K. Akin, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor
Craig Brandner, DDS, Clinical Assistant Professor
Michael Casadaban, DDS, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor
Brian Dyess, DDS, Clinical Assistant Professor
Anthony A. Indovina, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor
R. Leo Regan, DDS, Clinical Assistant Professor
Tooley M. Towns, DDS, Clinical Associate Professor
Mark A. Welch, DDS, Clinical Assistant Professor
Randy Wilk, DDS, MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor
Brent D. Kennedy, DDS, MD , Clinical Assistant Professor
Daniel B. Spagnoli, DDS, Clinical Professor
Myron Tucker, DDS, Clinical Professor
Likith V. Reddy D.D.S., M.D., FACS
Department Head
Dr. Likith Reddy joined the LSU School of Dentistry in August, 2008, as associate professor and Chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
Prior to moving to New Orleans, he served for three years as director of the oral and maxillofacial surgery residency training program at the University of Cincinnati. He increased the profile of the residency training program at the national and international levels. He was instrumental in expanding the scope of and training in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Within five years, he increased the operative volume by 300%.
Dr. Reddy received his DDS from Case Western School of Dental Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, and his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. In 2003, he completed his internship and residency training in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is a diplomate in oral and maxillofacial surgery and a fellow of American College of Surgery.
He has published book chapters and numerous articles in the scientific literature. In collaboration with neurosurgeons at the Mayfield Clinic in Cincinnati, he has been instrumental in developing transorbital key hole access via the upper blepharoplasty incision. This provides surgical access to intracranial tumors and aneurysms for the anterior cranial fossa.
He lectures regularly at national meetings for the AAOMS and the AO North America.
In addition, he is involved actively in oral and maxillofacial surgery resident education and training. Dr. Reddy specializes in facial trauma, surgical reconstruction of skeletal deformities, craniofacial cleft lip and palate repair, obstructive sleep apnea and facial cosmetic surgery.
He is actively involved with charity care and contributes a significant amount of his time with international outreach programs. He returns to his hometown in India once every year and renders complex surgical treatment free of cost. He was featured on the Discovery Channel and Discovery Health Channel in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. In Cincinnati, he was featured multiple times on television discussing oral and maxillofacial conditions.
Full-time education and research have occupied the career of Dr. John N. Kent since he received his bachelor’s degree from Hasting College, Nebraska, and DDS in 1963 from the University of Nebraska. After three years in the United States Public Health Service, he completed his residency training in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Texas in Houston. He subsequently served as a member of the full-time faculty in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Texas in Houston and at University of Iowa.
He then joined the LSU School of Dentistry and served as chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Charity Hospital in New Orleans from 1973 to 2002 and again from 2003 to 2008.
In 1983, he was appointed Boyd Professor which is the highest academic rank of the LSU system. He served as president-elect of the medical staff at University Hospital and president of the Louisiana Society and the Southeastern Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.
In 1988, the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery received the first $1,000,000 endowed chair given to the LSU Medical Center. It is called the James R. Peltier Endowed Chair. Dr. Kent occupies the chair as its first eminent scholar.
As a result of his distinguished career in teaching and research, he is considered an authority in orthognathic surgery, reconstructive surgery, dental implants and biomaterial. He has authored 15 textbooks, 40 research reports and over 250 journals, and abstract publications, including the first textbook on orthognathic surgery in the United States.
He received the AAOMS Research Recognition Award, the Geis Foundation Award, the Simon P. Hullihen Award, the Louisiana Dental Association's Distinguished Service Award, The American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon's Harry Archer Award. He is a Fullbright Scholar.
He has served on the editorial board of several surgical and dental journals including the Journal of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery. He is a fellow of the American College of Dentists and International College of Dentists and a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ABOMS). He served on the ABOMS Advisory and Examining Committee for six years and on
the Board of Directors for seven years. From 1987-88 he was president of ABOMS.
Dr. Kent and his wife, Virginia, have raised five children. Their son, John, is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in North Carolina.
Dr. Kent enjoys golf and sailing, and many family trips to Nebraska, Colorado, and Texas.
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E-mail: jkent1@lsuhsc.edu
Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Education
Dr. O’Brien was born in New Orleans and grew up in neighboring St. Bernard Parish.
He received his pre-dental requirements from Louisiana State University after just two years and remained on the Dean’s list, while he was there.
Dr. O’Brien attended Loyola University Dental School and graduated in1970 near the top of his class with a DDS degree. His honor societies included C. Victor Vignes, O.K.U. and Alpha Sigma Nu.
He then completed an internship and residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Charity Hospital in 1973 and was the chief resident in his final year. Dr. O’Brien is a diplomate of the Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the Board of Dental Anesthesia and is a fellow of the American, Southeastern, and Louisiana Societies of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is also a member of the American, Louisiana, and New Orleans Dental Societies and the American Dental Society of Anesthesia.
He has been associated with the Louisiana State University Dental School in various part-time capacities for the past 25 years. He now has the full-time appointment of clinical associate professor. He is director of the undergraduate program, which includes all didactic courses and clinics.
He has published in the Triple-O Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
Prior to teaching full time, he was in full-scope private practice as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon for 27 years. While still in private practice, Dr. O’Brien also graduated from Loyola Law School in 1998 and has served as an attorney for the Louisiana State Board of Dentistry. He still does some work with the board including the inspection and certification of offices for the administration of intravenous conscious sedation. He also serves as a consultant to the board on difficult and complicated dental disciplinary cases.
Dr. O’Brien also teaches a variety of continuing education oral surgery courses including all types of anesthesia, medical emergencies in the dental office, and malpractice lectures.
Dr. O’Brien is active in St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic Church in Slidell, Louisiana, which is north of New Orleans and where he now lives. He gives all credit for his accomplishments to his beautiful wife, Lyndall, and his proudest accomplishments are his three children: Dawn, Michael, and Katie.
Dr. Perenack is a native of Alberta, Canada, has been a full-time faculty member since 2003. He assumed the duties of residency director in May, 2005.
Prior to this, he completed his residency training in oral and maxillofacial surgery at LSU-New Orleans in 2002. The following year, he completed a one-year fellowship in full body cosmetic surgery in Texas under Dr. Howard Tobin.
In 1992, he received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Alberta. In 1996, he received his DDS from Loma Linda University in California where he was named to the OKU and Alpha-Omega honor societies. He completed his medical degree from Louisiana State University Medical School in New Orleans, graduating AOA, in 1999.
He has focused his efforts primarily in the field of cosmetic facial surgery. Board certified by both the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery and the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, he has rapidly developed a surgery practice that is almost exclusively focused on facial cosmetics. Always interested in expanding the scope of other surgeons, Dr. Perenack has become a regular lecturer at the national meetings for the AAOMS and American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He has published numerous articles in the scientific literature and has received several awards including the AAOMS Faculty Educator Development Award.
Dr. Perenack is married to Cherie and has two children. He is an avid oil painter and enjoys reading in his spare time.
Clinical Professor and Director of Research
Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans
Dr. Block graduated from the University of Rochester in 1975, attaining both a bachelor of arts degree in biology and a bachelor of science degree in biomedical engineering. He completed his dental training at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1979, receiving his DMD cum laude in a special field.
In 1983, he completed his residency program in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the LSU School of Dentistry. He served as a full-time faculty member for 23 years. He is currently clinical professor and director of research.
Dr. Block is the editor-in-chief of four textbooks on dental implants, Endosseous Implants for Maxillofacial Reconstruction, Implants in Dentistry, Color Atlas of Dental Implant Surgery – edition 1, and a new edition of the Color Atlas of Dental Implant Surgery - edition 2 which was released in 2007. He is past president of the Academy of Osseointegration and has been program chairman for three of their annual programs.
Dr. Block serves on the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) Committee on Continuing Education. He has been an examiner for the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is a section editor on dental implants for the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
Dr. Block is particularly interested in reconstruction of the jaw to provide ideal bone for implant placement and esthetic replacement of missing teeth, the use of multiple techniques and implants to reconstruct significant atrophic conditions, and interceptive strategies for rehabilitating extraction sites with implant restorations.
His hobbies are golf, skiing, road cycling, nutrition, science fiction and computer technology.
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E-mail: mblock@lsuhsc.edu
Clinical Professor and Residency Director in Charlotte, NC
Dr. Misiek is a native of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, and attended the University of Connecticut in Storrs graduating in 1974 with a bachelor of arts degree in biology. He completed his dental training at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine and received his DMD in 1978.
He then moved to New Orleans where, in 1982, he completed a four-year residency program in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the LSU School of Dentistry (LSUSD). He the practiced full time in New Orleans for two years and then returned to LSUSD to serve as a full-time faculty member for 14 years. In 1998, he resigned his full- time position at LSUSD to return to private practice, this time in Charlotte, North Carolina.
He has maintained a part-time position as clinical professor and directs the resident rotation in Charlotte at Carolina’s Medical Center.
During his tenure at the dental school, he participated in the full scope of scholarly activity with research, publications in textbooks and journals, and numerous presentations at national and regional meetings on the subjects of orthognathic surgery, cosmetic surgery and implant reconstruction. He was an examiner for the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from 1990-1996 and served as a section chairman for two years during that interval.
Dr. Misiek continues to practice the full scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery in his private practice in Charlotte. Of particular interest is the utilization of human recombinant BMP for bone grafting in the maxillofacial region. He has lectured at national meetings on this topic and continues to actively pursue clinical research in this area.
He and his wife, Pat, have been married for 32 years and currently live in Belmont, a suburb of Charlotte. While practice has occupied the majority of his time, he has had the opportunity to enjoy three grown children, a daughter and two sons, as well as four dogs at home in Belmont.
Hobbies include traveling, fishing, and the futility of golf.
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E-mail: drdjm1@aol.com
Clinical Associate Professor and Chief, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Earl K. Long Hospital in Baton Rouge
Charles “Grady” Hornsby, DDS, is a native of Denham Springs, Louisiana, and a graduate of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He attended the LSU School of Dentistry and received his DDS in 1975.
Upon graduation, he began a three-year residency in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the LSU School of Dentistry (LSUSD). He has been in private practice in Baton Rouge, Louisiana since 1978.
Dr. Hornsby is presently a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He is on staff at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and Earl K. Long Hospital, both of which are located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dr. Hornsby regularly lectures for the local dental population. He is the chief of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Earl K. Long Hospital in Baton Rouge where the surgeons treat all facial trauma. They also provide a significant amount of pathology and reconstruction, facial deformities and cosmetic surgery for the LSU residents.
Dr. Hornsby is a member of the American Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, Sixth District Dental Association, Louisiana Society of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, Southeastern Society of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, American Dental Association, and the Louisiana Dental Association. He is also a member of the C. Edmund Kells Society.
Dr. Likith Reddy joined the LSU School of Dentistry in August, 2008, as associate professor and Chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 
Full-time education and research have occupied the career of Dr. John N. Kent since he received his bachelor’s degree from Hasting College, Nebraska, and DDS in 1963 from the University of Nebraska. After three years in the United States Public Health Service, he completed his residency training in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Texas in Houston. He subsequently served as a member of the full-time faculty in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Texas in Houston and at University of Iowa. 
Dr. O’Brien was born in New Orleans and grew up in neighboring St. Bernard Parish. 
Dr. Perenack is a native of Alberta, Canada, has been a full-time faculty member since 2003. He assumed the duties of residency director in May, 2005. 
Dr. Block graduated from the University of Rochester in 1975, attaining both a bachelor of arts degree in biology and a bachelor of science degree in biomedical engineering. He completed his dental training at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1979, receiving his DMD cum laude in a special field. 
Dr. Misiek is a native of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, and attended the University of Connecticut in Storrs graduating in 1974 with a bachelor of arts degree in biology. He completed his dental training at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine and received his DMD in 1978. 
Charles “Grady” Hornsby, DDS, is a native of Denham Springs, Louisiana, and a graduate of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He attended the LSU School of Dentistry and received his DDS in 1975.