Meet your Doctors

At ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, the Oral Surgeons and Prosthodontists perform more Implant procedures in a month than most dental practices do in year. At ClearChoice, we believe that the doctors' experience, combined with State-of-the-Art equipment and an On-Site Dental Implant Lab, allows them to provide the highest level of patient care possible.

Steve Parel, DDS

Prosthodontist

Dr. Parel received his dental degree from The Medical College of Virginia in 1969. He became a faculty member in the University of Texas System in 1975, rising to the rank of full professor in the San Antonio Medical and Dental Schools in 1978. He served as head of the Maxillofacial Prosthetics Division in the Department of Prosthodontics until 1991. Dr. Parel was formerly a professor at Baylor College of Dentistry—Texas A&M University System Health Science Center and director of the Center of Oral Maxillofacial Prosthodontics in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Pharmacology.

Dr. Parel is a Diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics, the American College of Dentists, and is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Dental Association, the Academy of Prosthodontics, and the American College of Prosthodontics. He recently received the Andrew J. Ackerman Award for meritorius lifetime service in the field of Maxillofacial Prosthetics and the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the American College of Prosthodontics, the Dan Gordon Award for Lifetime Acheivement from the ACP, and was elected as Examiner for the Board of the American Board of Prosthodontists in 2003.

William R. Phillips, DDS, MD

Oral Surgeon

Dr. Phillips received his dental degree from Baylor College of Dentistry in 1997. He then went on to obtain his medical degree at Texas Tech University Health Science Center, after which he completed an intern year in general surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the VA hospital. He then returned to Dallas and finished his Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency at Baylor College of Dentistry and Baylor University Medical Center. Since completing his residency in 2003, he has maintained a private practice in Dallas, Texas.

As a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, he specializes in the treatment of diseases, injuries and malformations involving functional and aesthetic aspects of the mouth, teeth and facial regions. His practice is focused on providing surgically advanced dental implant techniques.

He is currently an attending surgeon at Baylor University Medical Center, where he is involved with the training of residents in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery program at Baylor College of Dentistry. He is also a clinical professor at Baylor College of Dentistry in the undergraduate Oral and Maxillofacial surgery department where he is involved in the teaching of dental students.

Dr. Phillips is a fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He is an active member in the local and national associations of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dentistry and Medicine. He has served on the board of directors of the Dallas County Dental Society along with being editor of their newsletter. In addition, he has held multiple officer positions in the local Oral and Maxillofacial Society. He lives in Dallas with his wife and two children.