Nov. 16, 1937 – May 26, 2023
Dr. Ronald H. Jarvis, who helped make breakthroughs in reconstructive dentistry and applied those new discoveries in his clinical work, died May 26 in Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Amherst, after a brief illness. He was 85.
A consultant to Williams Gold Refining Co. for more than 20 years, he played a key role in developing the Renaissance Crown for individual false teeth, an alloy of gold, ceramic and palladium.
Introduced in 1985, it was less than half as thick as a standard replacement crown. Dr. Jarvis made first clinical use of the crown in the mouth of a relative in 1984.
Evolution Dental Sciences, which started as a dental lab in a back room in Dr. Jarvis’ Amherst office in the 1990s, gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award for his commitment to digital dentistry, the advancement of CAD/CAM dentistry and better patient care.
The citation noted that without his clinical support, “AvaDent digital dentures would not have happened.” The award has been renamed the Ronald Jarvis DDS Excellence in Dentistry Award.
Born in Buffalo, Ronald Henry Jarvis was a 1955 graduate of Lackawanna High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Buffalo in 1959 and was a member of Alpha Phi Omega fraternity.
He completed his degree in dental surgery at the UB Dental School in 1963 and received the Dr. George B. Snow Award for Fixed Prosthodontics.
He served in the Navy as a lieutenant in the Dental Corps from 1963 to 1965 and was stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, then earned a master’s degree in dentistry in 1967 from Indiana University Bloomington, where he was honored with Dr. John F. Johnston Award of outstanding proficiency in fixed and removable partial prosthodontics.
He established a private dental practice specializing in prosthodontics and restorative dentistry in Amherst in 1970 and opened an office on Sweet Home Road in 1976. He retired in 2022.
Dr. Jarvis was a consultant…
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