Our Doctor

Robert E. Gillis Jr., DMD

Dr. Gillis is a 1966 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross. He earned his DMD degree in 1970 from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He completed a rotating internship in the U.S. Public Health Service and served as a staff officer for two additional years at Norfolk, Virginia. He completed a three year combined residency in Prosthodontics and Maxillofacial prosthetics at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and received an MSD from the University of Minnesota. From 1976-1978 he was on the faculty at UC San Francisco funded by a national Cancer Institute grant. From 1978-1983 Dr. Gillis served as Director of Dentistry achieving the rank of clinical associate professor at UC Davis, School of Medicine department of Otorhinolaryngology. He continued a part time appointment until 1988. He has had a private practice in Sacramento from 1978 to the present. Dr. Gillis is a member of a number of prosthodontic organizations including the American College of Prosthodontics, the Academy of Prosthodontics, the American Academy of Maxillofacial Prosthetics (past president) and the Pacific Coast Society for Prosthodontics (past president). He is a diplomat of the American Board of Prosthodontics. He is a member of the Sacramento District Dental Society, California Dental Association and American Dental Association. He is a Fellow of the American College of Dentists. 

He has served on the board of Directors for numerous organizations including the Greater Sacramento Cancer Council and the American Cancer Society.  Dr. Gillis served for seven years on two councils of the California Dental Association and is a past president of the Sacramento District Dental Society. He and his wife Mary Lou have served World Wide Marriage Encounter for fifteen years both nationally and locally. Dr. Gillis served on the Editorial Council of the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry for five years.  He served on the council for the affairs of the American Board of Prosthodontics. He currently serves on the  board of directors of the Maxillofacial Foundation and the Sacramento District Dental Foundation.