Board Certified Endodontist- Clinician and Author

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

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Dr Sondra Avant has 28 years of experience as a Board-certified clinical endodontist in a highly-rated private practice in Port Orange, Florida. She has been an associate professor and taught endodontics to dental students at the University of Louisville. Dr Avant has been published in the Journal of Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics. As a recognized expert in root canals and root canal surgery, she is the preferred referral of not just general dentists, but regularly receives patients from other endodontists for more difficult and complex cases. Her skills and experience extend to extractions, grafting and placing implants in non-restorable cases for the last 21 years. She is an expert on diagnosing dental pain and dealing with anxiety. She is certified in, and provides IV sedation to patients who require it to help them get the treatment they need. Dr Avant has previously been an expert witness on several cases involving standard of care, misdiagnosis, chronic pain and infection, malpractice that involved nerve injury, and malpractice that caused loss of teeth and facial damage. She is responsive, experienced, likeable, and extremely thorough. She has a rare ability to easily connect with people on their level. She has been married to a trial lawyer for 28 years, and is the mother of an Army officer and an aerospace physiologist. She regularly competes at the international level as a singer, and has sung at the MGM Grand Arena as well as Carnegie Hall. She is poised in the spotlight whether that be on the stage or in court.