Hilton Israelson, DDS, former president of the Texas Dental Association and trustee of the American Dental Association, passed away on May 19, according to a May 24 news release from the ADA.
Dr. Israelson was a periodontist who had served the Dallas area since 1981. He was also a past president of the Dallas County Dental Society.
To help educate and train dental assistants, he founded the Dallas County Dental Society Dental Assisting School.
Dr. Israelson also served as a clinical instructor of periodontics at the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston from 1977 to 1979, assistant clinical professor at the Texas A&M College of Dentistry in Dallas from 1979 to 1989 and associate clinical professor at Texas A&M from 1989 to 2000.