Meet Dr. Harry Albers

Dr. Harry Albers has lived in the city of Santa Rosa, CA since 1978 and currently maintains his private practice where he provides impeccable dental implants, family, and cosmetic dentistry. Dr. Albers has received over a dozen prestigious awards for excellence in the areas of teaching dentistry, exceptional professional service, academic accomplishments, and significant professional contributions to the art and science of dentistry over the past two decades.

Dr. Harry Albers was born in Holland. At the age of two, after World War II when much of Holland was destroyed and the family was unable to find housing, he and his family emigrated to Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and then moved to Berkeley, California. It was there that Dr. Albers completed his secondary education. He then attended the University of Santa Clara, where he majored in mathematics, and then transferred to the University of California at Berkeley to complete his undergraduate education. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. While attending UCLA Dental School, Dr. Albers conducted research, provided community dental programs, served as student body president, and graduated with numerous awards for leadership and public service.

After completing a general practice residency at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in San Francisco, our Santa Rose dentist taught fixed prosthodontics at the University of California Dental School in San Francisco and operative dentistry at the University of the Pacific Dental School in San Francisco. In 1987, he limited his teaching to postgraduate dental education. During the past twenty-five years, he has written several dental texts and lectured extensively on cosmetic dentistry, tooth-colored restoratives, direct and indirect veneers, bonded posterior restorations, fixed prosthodontics, temporization, impression techniques, and other aspects of clinical dentistry. His best-selling text, Tooth Colored Restoratives, widely acclaimed as the most comprehensive clinical text on cosmetic and adhesive dentistry, is in its eighth edition and has been translated into two foreign languages.

Beyond clinical education courses, Dr. Albers offers numerous lectures and hands-on continuing education courses through various educational groups worldwide. Over the past twelve years, Dr. Albers has helped organize 550 dental graduates from these study groups into the Academy of Cosmetic and Adhesive Dentistry (ACAD). This allows long-term clinical monitoring of restorative materials in dental practices by similarly trained operators. They play an active role in evaluating materials and techniques through their participation. Dr. Albers is editor of the ADEPT Report, a highly acclaimed quarterly newsletter to update dental professionals on advances in adhesive and cosmetic dentistry.