J. William Robbins, DDS, MA, maintains a private practice in San Antonio, Texas, and is an adjunct clinical professor in the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry at the University of Texas Science Center at San Antonio Dental School.

He has published over 80 articles, abstracts, and chapters on a wide range of dental subjects and has lectured worldwide.

Dr Robbins coauthored Global Diagnosis: A New Vision of Dental Diagnosis and Treatment Planning (Quintessence, 2016) and its new edition, Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning: The Global Diagnosis (Quintessence, 2026) as well as coedited the first two editions of Fundamentals of Operative Dentistry: A Contemporary Approach (Quintessence, 1996, 2001), which is now in its fourth edition.

He has won several awards, including the Presidential Teaching Award at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Texas Dentist of the Year Award, and President’s Award from the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry, among others.

Dr Robbins is a diplomate of the American Board of General Dentistry, the Academy of Operative Dentistry, the Southwest Academy of Restorative Dentistry, and the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry.

Jeffrey S. Rouse, DDS, maintains a private practice limited to prosthodontics in San Antonio, Texas.

He received his specialty certificate in prosthodontics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2004 and is a past president of the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry and the Southwest Academy of Restorative Dentistry.

Dr Rouse has written numerous journal articles, including for 4 years a portion of the “Annual Review of Selected Dental Literature” published each summer in the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry.

He has contributed chapters on porcelain veneers and anterior ceramic crowns to three editions of a dental textbook.

Dr Rouse lectures nationally and internationally on a wide variety of topics ranging from dental esthetics to airway prosthodontics and is a coauthor of Global Diagnosis: A New Vision of Dental Diagnosis and Treatment Planning (Quintessence, 2016) and its new edition, Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning: The Global Diagnosis (Quintessence, 2026).