Practice History
PIAGW was legally incorporated as a Maryland Professional Corporation in November 1986. Prior to the formation of PIAGW, Dr Rose, the founder, had a solo practice in the District of Columbia on the corner of Nebraska Ave and Connecticut Ave.
The Connecticut & Nebraska Avenues office was the site of the beginning of the practice story. Dr. Rose had moved to Washington DC to take a teaching position at Georgetown University's dental school and to practice periodontics. During his early months in town (August 1980), he began receiving patients. He saw them temporarily in the general dental office of his friend Dr. Donald Kreuzer located in the Watergate Office Building. Since he could not find an existing periodontal practice that was able to offer him an opportunity to treat his growing practice, he found it necessary to build a practice facility. Thus, construction of his first office was started in January 1981. It was completed in May of that year.
During the early months of his time in Washington, and prior to the beginning of his private practice, Dr. Rose worked as a Periodontist at Sterling Dental in Lanham, MD. This was a necessity, for academics did not provide an adequate income for raising his young family. There he met Regina Parker, a certified dental assistant who had just delivered her first child, and who was returning to the work force. The two of them worked well together and shared a common vision of dental care and practice. Dr. Rose asked Mrs. Parker if she was interested in creating a new periodontal practice with him. Together did exactly that. With about 10 patients Regina Parker and Karl Rose began the practice that has grown to what it is today.
In 1985, Dr. Rose was presented a business opportunity for consideration. Dr. Jay E. Slotkin, a successful Periodontist who had been practicing in Chevy Chase MD (only two miles from Connecticut & Nebraska Avenues) Dr. Slotkin had become ill, with Lou Gehrig's Disease and needed to leave his practice; he was looking for a practice purchaser. Dr. Rose formed the professional corporation which bought Dr. Slotkin’s practice, and eventually became Periodontal Associates of Greater Washington (PAGW).
For eight months, both practice locations continued to operate while Dr. Rose and his staff provided periodontal services to the patients of both his and Dr. Slotkin’s practices. Then, in June 1986, Dr. David Schneider joined PAGW as an associate.
The two offices continued to operate for three years until March 1989. It was during that month that construction of the current, #620 suite was completed. The two original offices were closed, and the practice has operated from suite 620 in the Barlow Building since that time.
Dr. Schneider became a partner in 1990.
Moving from Boston, Dr. Georgann Apgar joined the practice in 1991. The trio of doctors worked hard and established their practice as a premiere, periodontal care institution. PAGW became known in the dental community as a practice of innovation, of forefront technical care, of unsurpassed excellence and profound dedication to its patients.
During the mid 1990’s, Dr. Schneider and Dr. Rose began developing a divergence in their philosophies about periodontal practice. In April 2000, Dr. Schneider left PAGW to practice periodontics, elsewhere. PAGW changed its name to Periodontal and Implant Associates of Greater Washington, (PIAGW), to reflect its intense involvement in implant dentistry.
To this day Dr. Rose and Dr. Apgar continue to pursue their original vision of delivering the best patient treatment possible, in an inviting environment, while servicing patients with kindness, respect and dignity, and doing all of this while having a good time.
We believe that our patients, our colleagues, and others with whom we have relations see us achieving our goals. We feel we do so, and are glad and proud that we do.
