Dr. Mark Benavides' Education:

Carleton College, Northfield Minnesota 1977

Marquette University Dental School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1986

He belongs to the following organizations while practicing in Ottawa, Illinois:

• American Dental Association

• Academy of General Dentistry (more than 4,500 hours of Continuing Education since graduation!)

• Illinois State Dental Society

• American Academy of Restorative Dentistry (AARD)

• International Congress of Oral Implantology (ICOI)

Kois Center:

2006 - Achieved "Clinical Instructor" status at the Kois Center (having been a student since 1996, and considered one of the “Originals”)

2016-2018: Kois Center Advisory Board

2019 - Current: Scientific Advisor – Computer Technology

2008

Graduate from the Misch Implant Institute, AND passed the Fellowship exam for the ICOI

AARD: 

2008: Active member of the AARD (Restorative Academy)

2012 - 2025: Web Chair (design, maintain the website, etc) for the AARD

Seattle Study Club (another international group of dentists known for continuing their Dental Education)

Contempory Dental Forum (CDF): the local Seattle Study Club component which meets monthly in the Joliet/Aurora area – for more than 20 years!

Illinois State Dental Society

“Illinois State Dental Society” TRUSTEE 2016-2019

*Illinois Valley Dental Society (the local dental component)

Program Chairperson (1993-1994)

Program Chairperson (2005 - 2006)

Dent-IL-PAC Director (1990-1999)

President of the "Illinois Valley Dental Society" 1990-1992, and again from 2008-2015.  And YET AGAIN 2025---

American Dental Association

2016-2023 - “SnoDENT” committee, ADA

2017- 2020

Member of iXorg (only Dentist to be a member)

iXorg member companies consult, design, and support a wide variety of complex environments with the latest in hardware and software solutions, including Networking and Cloud Backup and Services. The expertise is centered around Xinuos Unix (SCO OpenServer & UnixWare), BSD Unix, Linux, OmniOS, VMWare and other Operating Systems.

Dr. Benavides has been married to his wife Angela more than 40 years!