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Dr. Konvalinka provides professional family dentistry services to the greater Kalamazoo Michigan area. Keith began his career in 1981 as the Dental Director for the Migrant and Rural Community Health Association in Bangor, Michigan. He opened his general dentistry practice in Kalamazoo the next year and has grown it from a one-employee [his wife] start-up in a crowded medical complex to a stand-alone dental practice with a staff of seven in its current location on Stadium Drive. His enthusiasm for the evolving technology of dentistry has meant an ever-growing list of improvements in the instruments and techniques that benefit our patients. From lasers to CAD/CAM to digital radiography, his aim is to incorporate “the new” into “the tried and true” to make our patients’ experience better, easier, faster, more comfortable, and less stressful than we were able to provide the day before.

Connections

Keith’s been a member of the American Dental Association and the Michigan Dental Association since his first year in dental school and was co-editor of the Kalamazoo Valley District Dental Society’s quarterly journal. Keith currently sits on the Michigan Dental Association’s Peer Review/Ethics Board and has written articles for the MDA Journal and other publications on the issue of professional ethics.

He was Chairman of the Kalamazoo Investigational Review Board, which oversaw drug research conducted at Westside Medical Center. He’s Past-President of the Kalamazoo Valley District Dental Society, a past board member of the American Civil Liberties Union and he belongs to the Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy, the Kalamazoo Audubon Society, and Trout Unlimited among many other organizations.

Education

A 1981 graduate of the University of Michigan ’s Dental School , Keith has taken numerous and varied continuing education seminars and has been trained to use the latest dental technology including the Waterlase laser and Sirona CEREC Crown/Inlay CAD/CAM System.

Fun

You’ll note the many bird feeders around the windows of the office and the occasional Keith-with-a-big-fish picture on the No Cavity Club Board in the waiting room since Keith has been an avid fly-fisherman for almost as long as he’s been a dentist and a bird watcher for even longer. Try quizzing him on the music playing throughout the office – he’s only rarely wrong on artist, album, year of release, and who’s covered the same tune of the eclectic mix of music we play [wait five minutes and you’ll hear something you love … or scratch your head in puzzled wonder].