Dr. Ronald H. Jarvis
November 16, 1937 - May 26, 2023
Ron Jarvis had a mission, he excelled in his profession, provided superb dental health to all his patients, became a Mentor to most of his students and enjoyed life to the fullest. An outstanding prosthodontist who practiced excellence in dentistry and guided his students to follow his footsteps in the field of Prosthodontics.
He got his DDS at the State University of New York at Buffalo, got married to Judy, spent a couple of years at Guantanamo Bay in the dental core of the US army and came back to the US to continue his education. He received his training in Fixed Prosthodontics and his Master of Science degree, at Indiana University and returned to Buffalo to start a very successful private practice.
It was through Dr Milton Brown that he was invited to the Prosthodontics Program at Eastman Dental Center, where he was introduced to Dr Allen A. Brewer, Program Chair and Director at that time, and he would be invited to lecture periodically. His relationship with Eastman lasted many years as he was invited to come back by the next Chair in Prosthodontics at EDC Gerald N. Graser, and the next Chair Dr Carlo Ercoli.
Our class (Charley Oster, Vagelis Rossopoulos and myself, were very lucky to have had him as our Fixed Prosthodontics Mentor once or twice a month. Forty years ago, the training in Fixed Prosthodontics was limited to diagnosis, tooth preparation, provisionals, final impressions, inter occlusal records, articulation and lab work, which we did ourselves!
Drs. Ross Tallents and Rafael Ganddini were also present in guiding us, but when Ron showed up on Fridays, it was fascinating to see those gifted hands on patients and his porcelain art work.
We enjoyed placing ceramic on those precious or semiprecious metal copings and took pride in showing Ron our work, his most common phrases were:
•Nice chicken scratches! •It looks like a tulip, now let’s make it look like a tooth. •Was it frustrating? You bet it was, but we learned! So it was back to the drawing board and keep on trying harder.
Golfing and spending time with him at the Park Country Club in Buffalo on Thursdays before the Allen A Brewer meeting was always a treat with my Mentor. Keith Ferro was present at these outings a couple of times, and we would spend dinner together at Salvatore’s Italian Gardens and later on at Russell’s steakhouse with Ross and Izchak.
Ron is survived by his two daughters, Jennifer and Pamela and four grandchildren, Max, Christopher, Parker and Carson.
I will finish with the first words of a poem- -Time is not slow or fast, it’s empty or plentiful, and Ron Jarvis lived a life of plenty!
Written by Dr. Antonio Bello
He got his DDS at the State University of New York at Buffalo, got married to Judy, spent a couple of years at Guantanamo Bay in the dental core of the US army and came back to the US to continue his education. He received his training in Fixed Prosthodontics and his Master of Science degree, at Indiana University and returned to Buffalo to start a very successful private practice.
It was through Dr Milton Brown that he was invited to the Prosthodontics Program at Eastman Dental Center, where he was introduced to Dr Allen A. Brewer, Program Chair and Director at that time, and he would be invited to lecture periodically. His relationship with Eastman lasted many years as he was invited to come back by the next Chair in Prosthodontics at EDC Gerald N. Graser, and the next Chair Dr Carlo Ercoli.
Our class (Charley Oster, Vagelis Rossopoulos and myself, were very lucky to have had him as our Fixed Prosthodontics Mentor once or twice a month. Forty years ago, the training in Fixed Prosthodontics was limited to diagnosis, tooth preparation, provisionals, final impressions, inter occlusal records, articulation and lab work, which we did ourselves!
Drs. Ross Tallents and Rafael Ganddini were also present in guiding us, but when Ron showed up on Fridays, it was fascinating to see those gifted hands on patients and his porcelain art work.
We enjoyed placing ceramic on those precious or semiprecious metal copings and took pride in showing Ron our work, his most common phrases were:
•Nice chicken scratches! •It looks like a tulip, now let’s make it look like a tooth. •Was it frustrating? You bet it was, but we learned! So it was back to the drawing board and keep on trying harder.
Golfing and spending time with him at the Park Country Club in Buffalo on Thursdays before the Allen A Brewer meeting was always a treat with my Mentor. Keith Ferro was present at these outings a couple of times, and we would spend dinner together at Salvatore’s Italian Gardens and later on at Russell’s steakhouse with Ross and Izchak.
Ron is survived by his two daughters, Jennifer and Pamela and four grandchildren, Max, Christopher, Parker and Carson.
I will finish with the first words of a poem- -Time is not slow or fast, it’s empty or plentiful, and Ron Jarvis lived a life of plenty!
Written by Dr. Antonio Bello