[Fort Lee, NJ - January 2008] - Nobel Prize nominee Leonard I. Linkow's life has been one of tribulation and triumph. Since starting a career in dentistry, he went on to discover the process of Implantology and through the years he nurtured and refined it into what is now a dental innovation. Follow his incredible journey with the release of his compelling new book How Green Were My Mountains?

The text delves into the young life of Lenny Linkow as a young boy, his love for baseball, his closeness with his family, his enlisting in the Air Force during World War II, his graduation for NYU College of Dentistry and the history he made afterwards. As a dentist, Linkow found no supporters to help him in his quest to change dentistry. Using his skills and knowledge, the author alone turned completely around the backward, archaic profession and created the most advanced didactic, clinical and research discipline the world has ever known today. Along the way, he faced fierce opposition to his creation of the entirely new discipline of Implantology. Today, Linkow is often called the "Father of Implantology" and he believes that millions of people worldwide will greatly benefit from the implants they receive.

Richly-layered and inspiring, How Green Were My Mountains? tells a tumultuous and triumphant personal story of one man who made a tremendous difference in the world of dentistry. To order a copy of this book, feel free to visit your local bookstore or log on at www.Xlibris.com today!

About the Author
Dr. Leonard Linkow became a dentist in 1952 after graduating from New York University College of Dentistry, and soon discovered the rapidly evolving field of tooth implants. He mastered advanced implant techniques by taking existing, often inadequate American and European methods and, through trial and error, transforming them into elegant and practical systems. Consequently Dr. Linkow also became a proponent of life improvement; he knew his work could often improve a patient's appearance and bring an end to their dental suffering. And he grew into a public relations warrior; for thirty years many vested interests of the profession strongly opposed the revolution of implant dentistry. Dr. Linkow vowed to relieve them of their bias, and at times did so single-handedly.

Dr. Linkow has practiced in New York City throughout his career, but in the 1960s he began worldwide journeys to spread the gospel of implantology through lectures and/or surgery. He has been feted in many of the world's great cities and countries - Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, St. Petersburg, Milan, Rome, Madrid, Paris, Shanghai, Tokyo, Zurich, Moscow, Manila, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, South Korea, and India. He recounts life-long friendships with some of the most renowned, loyal and eccentric people in the dental profession. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Linkow was a radio operator in the U.S. Air Force in the final days of World War II, was once a candidate for professional baseball, having tried out for the New York Giants under Carl Hubbel and Mel Ott, and twenty-five years later was stunned to learn he was on a list of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

How Green Were My Mountains? by Dr. Leonard I. Linkow
Published: January 5, 2005
Trade Paperback: $22.90; 380 pages; 978-1-4010-7913-0
Cloth Hardback: $32.99; 380 pages; 978-1-4010-7914-7

Coming Soon:
The History of Transplantology and Implantology – with the Legends who helped to create it
Dr. Linkow’s fifteenth book on implant dentistry will be published in a few months. This masterpiece contains over eight hundred pages and hundreds of pictures with the CV’s of over 150 pioneers.

Linkow Seminars:
52 implantology seminars accredited by the AAIP with 74 CE credits. With over 7500 slides and 16 video clips, the seminars offers a wealth of information covering such topics as "Endosseous Root Form Implant Systems", "Bilateral Sinus Elevations with Subantral Bone Augumentation", "Tripodal Subperiosteal Implants", "Anatomy and Morphology of the Edentulous Maxillae and Insertion..." and many others.