Doctor Becker graduated from Marquette Dental School in 1961 with a D.D.S degree and completed his specialty training in periodontology and a M.S.D. at Baylor College of Dentistry in 1966. In November of 1996 he received an Honorary Doctorate in Odontology from Gothenburg University in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and served as a Board Director. He is Past President of the Southern Arizona Dental Society and the American Academy of Periodontology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Dentists and a member of the National Academy of Practitioners. Doctor Becker is a clinical professor of periodontology at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry in Los Angeles, California. He was the Schluger Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle during 1993-94 and is presently an affiliate Professor at the University of Washington. Becker has authored over 60 studies relating to periodontal therapy or dental implants and has lectured throughout the United States, Europe, the Far East and the Middle East. He is co editor of, Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research and is in full time private practice in Tucson, Arizona.