ClearChoice Dental

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Meet your Doctors

At ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, the Oral Surgeons and Prosthodontists perform more Implant procedures in a month than most dental practices do in a year. At ClearChoice, we believe that the doctors' experience, combined with State-of-the-Art equipment and an On-Site Dental Implant Lab, allows them to provide the highest level of patient care possible.

Todd Eggleston, DMD
Oral Surgeon

Dr. Todd Eggleston is a graduate of Texas Tech University (1986) and The University of Texas Dental School in San Antonio (1990). Dr. Eggleston has completed 5 years of post-graduate residency training including an AEGD (advanced education in general dentistry, or internship) program and a certificate of specialty in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery from The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Eggleston was also a decorated officer in the United States Army from 1990 to 1994.

Dr. Eggleston has authored or co-authored several articles about facial reconstruction and surgery in refereed professional journals. Dr. Eggleston has been placing implants since 1994, and has focused much of his practice in recent years on implant reconstruction and implant dentistry. Dr. Eggleston participated in the very first training in the country offered by Nobel Biocare on their CT-guided implant placement, and performed the first guided surgery in Austin. Dr. Eggleston has also performed the first cases of the All-on-4 surgery in Austin.

Dr. Eggleston has been in Austin since 2001 and holds privileges at hospitals in the Austin area from both major hospital groups (St. David’s and Seton networks).

Roberto Velasco, DDS, PA
Prosthodontist

Dr. Velasco is a member of both the American College of Prosthodontists, and the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry.

He was born in Colombia, where went to dental school at Xaveriana University. After graduating in the top five of his class and practicing dentistry for eight years, Dr. Velasco went to Florida to pursue his dream of becoming a prosthodontist. He attended Nova Southeastern University and, after three years, graduated top of his class.

Dr. Velasco was then appointed to teach and became a full-time faculty member at Nova Southeastern University in both the Restorative and Prosthodontic Departments. He was in charge of the Dental Implants, Occlusion and Dental Bio-Materials Courses. He came to Austin in early 2003.

Dr. Velasco has lectured both nationally and internationally, mostly on implants. He has extensive training in high-tech dentistry and implant dentistry. He was one of the first dentists in Austin to train and implement in his practice, Teeth-in-an-Hour™, a state-of-the-art technology in which Dr. Velasco can provide a completely edentulous patient with implants and an implant retained prosthesis, all in under one hour. Dr. Velasco has also trained in Europe on the “All-on-4” implant procedure.