Longmont periodontist wins humanitarian award

Longmont periodontist Dr. Craig Hovick received the 2014 Humanatairian Award for helping those in most need of help at the annual meeting of The American Academy of Periodontology. He is pictured working in Uganda in 2013. (Courtesy photo) 

At the annual meeting of The American Academy of Periodontology, Dr. Craig Hovick was honored with the 2014 Humanitarian Award for helping those in most need of help. The meeting was held in San Francisco from Sept. 19 through Sept. 22.

Dr. Hovick has been volunteering his time and dental expertise to patients in Third World countries since 2004. For more than a decade, he has participated in programs in Costa Rica, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Ecuador, Liberia, Uganda and Cameroon.

He operates his own private practice in Longmont, where he often donates dental exams and other services to needy children and the handicapped. He earned his doctorate of dental surgery from the University of Iowa and his certificate in periodontology from the University of Nebraska. He became a diplomate of American Board of Periodontology in 1993.