Dr. Parker Mahan (1927-2010) was a visiting faculty Member of the LD Pankey Institute and teaches head and neck anatomy at the Institute for Advanced Dental Studies. After receiving his Ph.D in physiology, he taught at the Emory University School of Dentistry from 1962 to 1971, but left that position to become the founding chairman of the University of Florida's Department of Basic Dental Sciences. In 1984, Dr. Mahan was named the Director of the Dental Occlusion and Facial Pain Center at the University of Florida.

To honor his service, the university renamed the center the Parker L. Mahan Facial Pain Center in 1992. Among his many accolades, Dr. Mahan has received the Jerome Schweltzer Research Award in Prosthodontics, and Honorary Membership in the American College of Prosthodontics and Academy of General Dentistry.

Dr. Henry Tanner (1923-2003) pioneered acrylic resin provisional restorations and invented the 5-T Tanner amalgam carver. After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1945 with his dental degree, Dr. Tanner joined the faculty at his alma mater. Dr. Tanner left USC in 1954 to assume a teaching post as lieutenant commander at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He returned to USC in 1956 to serve as the chairman of the Department of Fixed Prosthodontics until his retirement to private practice in 1965. From 1974 to 1980, Dr. Tanner was the Assistant Director of Education at the L.D. Pankey Institute for Advanced Dental Education in Miami, Florida.

Dr. Tanner established a full-time restorative practice in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1986 that he maintained while continuing to teach and lecture extensively. Dr. Henry Tanner retired from practice in 1994, but continued teaching and consulting providing valuable insight and and skills acquired over an illustrious and pioneering 50-year career.