Meet the clinicians
Learn about current topics and trends in dentistry and the importance of oral health as it relates to overall health from our team of experts.

Dr. Eileen Crespo
Eileen Crespo, MD
Dr. Eileen Crespo is the Vice President of Medical Services at Delta Dental of Minnesota. She is a practicing pediatrician of over 30 years. She graduated from Syracuse University with a BS in Biology and received her medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is currently a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Co-Chapter Oral Health Advocate (COHA) of the Minnesota American Academy of Pediatrics, and a member of the Board of Directors of Children’s Dental Services, and the Minnesota Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. Cindy McGregor
Cindy McGregor, DDS
Dr. Cindy McGregor is the Vice President of Dental Services at Delta Dental of Minnesota. Dr. McGregor is a 1998 graduate of the University of Minnesota-School of Dentistry. She has been a hygiene instructor and practiced in both a small and large group practices in the Metropolitan area of Minnesota. Dr. McGregor has been a member of the Minnesota Dental Association as well as the American Dental Association for over 25 years.

Dr. James O'Meara
James O'Meara, DDS
Dr. James O’Meara is the Vice President of Dental Services at Delta Dental of Nebraska. Dr. O’Meara is also an Associate Professor of Adult Restorative Dentistry at the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry. He practiced General Dentistry In Des Moines, Iowa for thirteen years and also was an Associate Professor of General Dentistry at the Creighton University School of Dentistry for 21 years.

Dr. Bruce Templeton
R. Bruce Templeton, DMD
Dr. Bruce Templeton is an oral surgeon and has served both on the board and as a medical consultant for Delta Dental of Minnesota since 2011. Dr. Templeton has served as both the Chief of Dentistry and Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, and as a clinical professor at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry.

Dr. Peggy Gramates
Peggy Gramates, MD
Dr. Gramates is the Vice President of Vision Services at Delta Dental of Minnesota. She is a graduate of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed ophthalmology residency at the University of Illinois Chicago Eye and Ear Infirmary and a cornea and external disease fellowship at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a practicing ophthalmologist at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
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