Meet Dr. Cantor
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Dr. Owen Cantor earned his D.M.D from the University of Pittsburgh and entered private practice in 1973 in Downtown Pittsburgh. In 1991 he founded Cantor and Masterson Dental Associates, which became Cantor and Pounds Dental Associates in 2006.
Dr. Cantor was a staff member of Allegheny General Hospital, where he helped to begin development of the General Practice Residency in the Department of Dentistry. Dr. Cantor taught for many years in the Behavioral Sciences Department in the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, where he won the Chancellor's Award, the annual university-wide prize recognizing outstanding teaching.
Dr. Cantor is listed in America's Top Dentists and was recognized as one of Pittsburgh's Top Dentists in Pittsburgh Magazine, where he was recently voted Pittsburgh's "Best Cosmetic Dentist" in the magazine's reader's poll.
Dr Cantor is certified in TMJ Appliance Therapy, Dental Sleep Apnea Appliance Therapy and Invisalign, a system of computer-designed invisible Orthodontics for adults.
Dr. Cantor is a volunteer doctor for Cities of Asylum, a sheltering organization offering international writers and poets fleeing dictatorships and life-threatening political persecution with food, housing and medical care. In 2008, Dr Cantor was honored by Pittsburgh Cities of Asylum as "Humanitarian of the Year".
In his Arts Community work, Dr Cantor was founder and music director of the Summerfest Chamber Music Festival, which presented fourteen summers of wonderful chamber music under the stars in Fox Chapel, PA. Before and during his early years as a practicing dentist, Dr. Cantor was a free-lance French horn player performing and teaching in many local venues as well as the Chamber Music and Composers' Forum at Bennington College in Vermont. Dr. Cantor has served as a board member and advisor to many of Pittsburgh's musical organizations including the Pittsburgh Symphony, Opera, Renaissance and Baroque Society, Chamber Music Project, New Music Ensemble, and Chamber Music Society. He has also been active in Calliope, Pittsburgh's folk music society, and recently, The Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra at August Wilson Center.
Dr. Cantor has been an Artist-Lecturer in the Music Department of Carnegie Mellon University, and has taught popular, often over-subscribed, courses in Classical music and culture at CMU's Osher School for Lifelong Learning for the past ten years.
Dr. Cantor raised two daughters who now live and work in New York City.