Jason W. Kwok D.D.S., Eric Carl Appelin D.M.D. & Ricardo J. Wassmer D.D.S., M.S.

Our goals:

• To provide the highest quality endodontic care possible.
   
• To provide patients individualized care that will meet their unique dental needs.
    
• To explain all procedures and treatment options in detail.

• To foster open communication, optimizing treatment outcomes. 
   
• To be the endodontic leader on the Monterey Peninsula.

• To extend specialty care into our Salinas Valley.

Originally from San Diego, California, Dr. Jason Kwok graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2011 from the University of California Irvine with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Management.

Dr. Kwok then attended the University of California San Francisco School of Dentistry, where he graduated with honors and in the top 10% of his class in 2016. It wasn’t long into his initial training, where he fell in love with the root canal specialty. After his training in dental school, Dr. Kwok went on to complete a General Practice Residency at Harvard School of Dental Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Kwok then worked as a general dentist for a year prior to matriculating into his Endodontics residency at the University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry. Upon matriculation, he was quickly chosen as the chief resident for the program. Dr. Kwok was also selected by the American Association of Endodontists Outreach Foundation and Henry Schein Cares Foundation to attend the Jamaica Health Outreach Program in 2019.

Dr. Kwok has several publications, most notably in the Journal of Endodontics and in the Journal of Oral Health and Dental Research. For his most recent publication, he was on the cover of Journal of Endodontics and received an honorable mention award.

Dr. Kwok has also been a part-time Endodontic Faculty at the Univeristy of Connecticut and Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Dr. Kwok is a board eligible active member of the American Association of Endodontists, the American Dental Association, and the California Dental Association.

A California native, Dr. Wassmer was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences with a minor in Music Industry from the University of Southern California before pursuing his Doctor of Dental Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, where he graduated with honors.

Upon completing dental school, Dr. Wassmer commissioned as a United States Naval Officer and completed an Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. His naval career has taken him all over the country and across the globe, serving the dental needs of Marines and Sailors aboard amphibious warships and austere environments. His efforts during deployment earned him the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal and special recognition from the Surgeon General of the United States. It was during this time that he discovered his passion for Endodontics—helping patients get out of pain and back in the fight.

This led him to pursue advanced specialty training in Endodontics at the Naval Postgraduate Dental School in Bethesda, Maryland, where he also earned a Masters in Oral Biology. For the past two years, he has served as the Staff Endodontist at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point while also working in private practice in eastern North Carolina. Now, Dr. Wassmer is thrilled to return home to California with his wife and daughter to lay down roots and serve the Monterey County community. He is committed to providing compassionate, personalized, high-quality endodontic care, always prioritizing his patients; comfort and well-being.

Dr. Wassmer is fluent in Spanish, a board eligible member of the American Board of Endodontics and an active member of the American Association of Endodontists.

Dr. Appelin received his DMD from Tufts University and completed a General Practice Residency at the Malcom Randal V.A. Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida.  Dr. Appelin went on to earn his Postdoctoral Certificate in Endodontics from New York University. 

Dr. Appelin has proudly been serving the Central coast for the past fourteen years. He is proficient in all areas of Endodontics: including microsurgical technique as well as surgical tooth extraction, bone grafting and site preservation for implant restorations. Dr. Appelin is also CBCT Level one certified by the AAOMR. His knowledge and skills diagnosing and determining prognosis while utilizing 3D CBCT technology make him a valued asset when determining if your tooth should be saved or if alternative treatment is more appropriate.   (Click here to read more about saving your tooth.)

Dr. Appelin remains at the forefront of procedures to retain the natural dentition and most recently has started to use the Gentlewave system for complex root canal treatments. Click here to learn more about Gentle wave.

Dr. Appelin prides himself on saving difficult to treat teeth but when appropriate, offers Dental Implants for situations that cannot be remedied with Root Therapy. Dr. Appelin completed an additional Fellowship with California Implant Institute in 2014. In 2015 he participated in the Level I and Level II surgical externships. Dr. Appelin also volunteered his time as a member of the faculty for the live surgical externship. 

Dr. Appelin prides himself in constantly adding to his growing digital library of images and video taken from procedures and surgeries, he has performed. This HIPPA compliant collection has served as introduction for many dental students, specialty residents and general practitioners to the number of innovative surgical procedures performed in the specialty practice of Endodontics.

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