Dr. Andrew Kary

At fifteen, he was vacuum-laminating carbon fiber and fiberglass into composite skateboards in central Maine. At eighteen, he was running the ceramics program at a summer camp, teaching wheel throwing and handbuilding. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado, where he tutored physics and general chemistry. He has worked with computer-aided design (CAD), 3D printing, and milling since 2007. After college, he and his wife served as Peace Corps Volunteers in Lesotho, where he taught high school math and science. He then enrolled at the New York University College of Dentistry on an Army scholarship. At NYU he tutored biochemistry, raced on the cycling team, earned honors in periodontics and implantology, and published research on local anesthesia training. One project, an algorithm that recognizes dental plaque from clinical photographs, won Best Educational Poster at NYU’s Research Day. Another, a proof-of-concept system for recording and playing back tactile textures for dental hand-skills training, won HackNYU. Dr. Kary spent six years in the Army Dental Corps. His training included an Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) residency at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and an internship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Madigan Army Medical Center. The Army classified him as an Advanced Clinical Practice General Dentist (63A9F), a proficiency designation reserved for general dentists trained to handle complex surgical, prosthetic, and endodontic cases. The foundation is more than twenty years of precision work by hand and by machine. The culmination is Kary Dental. Dr. Kary lives in Washington, DC with his wife and three children.