Doctor Alexandre Dostie is a native of Saint-Lambert, on the south shore of Montreal. After receiving his doctor of dental medicine degree from Université de Montréal (1998) he completed a multidisciplinary residency at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital (1999). His training then took him to the United States where he did an internship at the Sinai Hospital in Detroit, Michigan (2000), and his oral and maxillofacial surgery residency training at the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis, Indiana (2004). A significant portion of Doctor Dostie’s training was devoted to dental implantology and to conscious sedation. He is one of few Canadian specialists to be certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ABOMS). Doctor Dostie taught his specialty at McGill University for more than seven years and is an examiner for the Royal College of Dentists of Canada (RCDC). He is an active member of the Quebec, Canadian and American associations of specialists in oral and maxillofacial surgery (ASCBMFQ, CAOMS and AAOMS) and of the International Team for Implantology (ITI).