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other dental information and links. If you have any suggestions or
requests, please contact us. This website will continue to be a work in
progress, so that it will improve and give you the information that you
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Our Mission
We are one of the few specialty dental practices (licensed by the State
of Illinois) providing periodontal and implant care on the North Shore of
Chicago since 1981.
We teach internationally and locally provide to patients; state of the
art services, products and techniques in dental implant care and periodontal
care.
Our mission is to provide this in a "patient friendly", simple and
compassionate manner. We want to treat you in a way that is not only
effective, but is also affordable and comfortable, as humanly possible.
Profile: North Shore Periodontics
& Implantology, Ltd.
NSPI has been built on the many recommendations from
dentists and patients, not only in the Chicagoland area, but throughout the
United States. Since the early 1980's, the doctors of NSPI have been preserving smiles and dental function via innovative
techniques and products for many patients. Since the doctors of NSPI have
taught on some of the most prestigious dental school and foundation faculties,
they have a unique ability to early assess and gain vast experience in current
breakthrough care in Dental Implantology and Periodontal Therapy.
Organizations ( Affiliations of our doctors)
Our Doctors are closely involved in many dental organizations. We wish
to not only help our patients, but our profession, as well. Although we
have achieved various "ranking" in some of these organizations, we wish the
public to know that this does not imply superior ability and knowledge to other
periodontists and dentists. It simply means that we chose to demonstrate
our knowledge to our peers in that organization. Membership in these
organizations are simply what we give back to our profession.
The following is a partial list of organizations in which we participate:
American Dental Association, American Academy of Periodontics, Chicago Dental
Society, Illinois Society of Periodontists, Illinois Dental Society,
International Academy of Dental Implantology, American Academy of Dental Implantology,
Various Corporate Research and Education Boards
Our Staff Doctors
 Robert A. Bressman, DDS, MS (Founder and CEO,
NSPI)
As founder and CEO of NSPI, Ltd. I am very proud of our growth and accomplishments, since
my beginning in 1981. NSPI provides a home
for the practices of some of the finest Periodontists in our region. Each one of
us has demonstrated our abilities and judgment to our peers through our
academic and clinical practice capabilities. This translates to providing
solutions to the many patient periodontal problems that we have treated over the
last 20+ years.
Dr. Bressman attended the University of Illinois, receiving
his undergraduate B.S. degree in 1974. He graduated from Northwestern
University Dental School with honors receiving his dental degree, his master's
degree in Oral Biology (less than 1% of dentists attain this), and his
Periodontal Specialty. He was awarded the Student Periodontal Achievement Award
by the American Academy of Periodontics. He was nominated and inducted into the
Pierre Fauchard honor society in dentistry. Dr. Bressman was an Assistant
Professor of Periodontics at Northwestern University for seven years. He
then became the Chairman of Periodontics at the Illinois Masonic Residency
Program (affiliate program to the University of Illinois). In 1991,
he became the Chairman of US education for the Swiss based Mathys Foundation in
Dental Implantology (affiliate with the Swiss AO foundation, Davos). Dr.
Bressman has presented at numerous international and local venues, as an expert
on tissue and bone regeneration, non-invasive periodontal therapies, and dental
Implantology. He also has interests in periodontal cosmetic procedures. He
holds a US patent on dental implant designs and has been a consultant to a
number of dental manufacturing companies. He has also served on a number
of various positions with his local dental society.
Dr. Bressman and his wife, Karen, have raised four children
and are now "empty nesters." His personal interests involve travel,
photography and enjoying all that life has to offer with his friends and family.
Joseph Gluck, DDS (Associate Clinical Periodontist)
Dr. Joseph Gluck has been working with Dr.
Bressman since 1991. He graduated from the
University of Illinois in 1988 with a doctorate in dentistry, where he
received the Student Periodontal Achievement award and the Oral Pathology
award. In 1991 he received his specialty certificate in periodontics from the
University of Illinois. His research in the Department of Oral Pathology has
been published in the Journal of Dental Research. In addition to his private
practice, Dr. Gluck is also a clinical assistant professor at the University
of Illinois where he supervises students in the postgraduate periodontal
clinic. He is married and the proud father of three children. In his spare
time, Dr Gluck has completed eleven marathons, many triathlons and century
bike rides.
Fred Lucas, DDS (Associate Clinical Periodontist)
Dr. Fred Lucas graduated from Indiana
University in 1989. He received his dental degree from the University of
Illinois in 1993. He received his Certificate in Periodontics in 1995. He
has given many lectures on Periodontics. He has also been an Associate
Professor in Periodontics at the University of Illinois Dental School.
Besides private practice, he is currently the chief of Periodontics at the
West Side VA Medical Center in Chicago.
Dr. Lucas enjoys the White Sox and all Hoosier athletics. He
is married and has 2 sons, who also enjoy his enthusiasm for sports.
 Robert Bitter, DMD (Associate Clinical Periodontist)
Dr. Bitter received his D.M.D. degree from
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Dental Medicine in 1978. He
then completed a Dental General Practice Residency and an Anesthesia
Fellowship in Chicago at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, prior to
completing his Periodontal Specialty training at Northwestern University
Dental School. At Northwestern, he served as Director of the Undergraduate
Periodontics Clinic, before entering full-time private specialty practice.
Dr. Bitter was inducted into the International College of Dentists in 1995,
and the American College of Dentists in 2003. Dr. Bitter has served as
President of the North Suburban Branch of the Chicago Dental Society. In
2005, he served as the General Chairman for the Chicago Dental Society’s
Midwinter Meeting at McCormack Place. Dr. Bitter is married, and has two
children. His daughter, Katie, is attending Washington University Medical
School, and his son, Jeffrey, is a business major at Purdue University. Dr.
Bitter lectures on periodontal cosmetics, and CT imaging for implant
therapy—and enjoys digital photography, which he incorporates into computer
PowerPoint educational presentations.
Our Staff Hygienists
Sheri Popp, RDH
Sheri Popp attended Northern Illinois
University, and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Elementary/Special
Education in 1979. She attended Hygiene School at Harper College in Palatine
and received her dental hygiene license in 1996. Sheri has been with North
Shore Periodontics since 1996 Sheri is the mother of two daughters. She is a
volunteer at Children’s Memorial Hospital and enjoys devoting her time to
Area 18 Special Olympics.
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Office Personnel
 Ileen Critz, Manager
Business Office
Clinical Assistants
 Sophia Tsyrkina
 Susan Mutasa
Practice Relations Coordinator
 Karen Abrams
- Telephone
- 847-675-4867
- FAX
- 847-763-7058
- Postal address
- 9933 Lawler Avenue
- Skokie, Illinois
60077
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link to Mapquest
(Directly west of the Old Orchard Shopping Center at
Old Orchard Road and Lawler Road)
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- Electronic mail
- General Information:
info@northshoreperio.com
Patient Support:
manager@northshoreperio.com
Webmaster:
rbressman@northshoreperio.com
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