Welcoming New Faculty: Nicholas Kaleel

Dr. Nicholas KaleelOn August 25, 2018, Nicholas Kaleel joined the faculty of the University of Florida College of Dentistry as a clinical associate professor in the Department of Restorative Dental Sciences Division of General Dentistry.

Kaleel earned his bachelor’s degree in 1975 from Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1980 he graduated with his dental degree from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry where he also completed a general practice residency in 1982 at the Veterans Affairs Hospital.

Kaleel was in private practice from 1980 to 1984 in Ohio, and then moved to Boynton Beach, Florida, where he ran a practice specializing in complex restorative dentistry, implants, periodontal therapy and esthetic dentistry from 1984 to 2011. From 1995 to 2011, he was also a dental consultant to the Bethesda Memorial Hospital Department of Surgery.

After selling his practice in Boynton Beach, he joined the faculty of the University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Louisville, Kentucky, in the Department of General Dentistry and Oral Medicine, where he was an assistant professor from 2014 to 2018 before joining UF.

Kaleel’s role in our college is as team leader in the predoctoral clinics and will spend most of his time working with the dental students and overseeing their treatment planning and delivery of patient care.


Becoming a Patient at UF Health Dentistry

If you would like to make an appointment for your dental care in our Faculty Practice General Dentistry Center, please call 352-273-7654.

For an appointment with one of our faculty practitioners in Endodontics, Orthodontics or Periodontics, call 352-273-7690.

For an appointment with one of our faculty practitioners in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, call 352-273-6731.