Dr. Barry F. McArdle graduated from Boston University's College of Arts and Sciences in 1980, majoring in Biology with minor concentrations in Art History, Latin Language and Literature. For the next 18 months, Dr. McArdle served as a research associate at University Hospital's Naval Blood Research Laboratory in Boston, where he worked with Dr. C. Robert Valeri, who originated frozen storage as a method for preserving human blood products. He then attended Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, where he earned a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree in 1985. He has been practicing general dentistry on the New Hampshire Seacoast ever since. Dr. McArdle has served on the active medical staff in dentistry at Concord Hospital in Concord, NH where he played a key role in the start of that institution's Family Health Center dental clinic. The FHC dental clinic serves disadvantaged patients in the greater Concord area. He is currently on the advisory board of the Seacoast Dental Coalition, which coordinates care for the underserved population of the southeastern New Hampshire area and he volunteers at the Families First dental center in Portsmouth, NH. Dr. McArdle has served on the board of directors of Priority Dental Health, Inc. (the New Hampshire Dental Society's Direct Reimbursement entity) and also on the editorial board of the New Hampshire Dental Society's Granite State Dentist newsletter. He has authored articles both nationally and internationally in such peer reviewed publications as THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION, DENTAL ECONOMICS, CONTEMPORARY ESTHETICS & RESTORATIVE PRACTICE, DENTISTRY TODAY, DENTAL PRACTICE REPORT, DENTAL COLLABORATIONS, THE COMPENDIUM OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN DENTISTRY and the British journal DENTISTRY. One of these appeared in the May 1997 issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association detailing the procedure he pioneered for administering painless injections to the palate. Dr. McArdle is a member of the American Dental Association, the New England Dental Society and the New Hampshire Dental Society. He is also a member of the Seacoast Dental Implant Study Group and co-founded the Seacoast Esthetic Dentistry Association (SEDA) of Portsmouth, NH in August, 2000. Dr. McArdle is an alumnus of The Pankey Institute for Advanced Dental Education as well.