Meet Dr. Robert Mitton
Chief, TRICARE Dental Care Branch

Dr. Robert Mitton, a dentist and Navy captain, is no stranger to TRICARE. Before his promotion to chief of the TRICARE Dental Care Branch in August 2008, he served as the department's deputy chief.

He is a 1989 graduate of the Dental School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and received a Master of Public Health from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 1997. In 1998, Dr. Mitton was named a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Public Health after completing his dental public health residency at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.

Dr. Mitton was commissioned as a Naval officer in 1990 and served as the dental officer aboard the destroyer tender USS Yellowstone from 1991 to 1993, and the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower from 1994 to 1996. CAPT Mitton has served ashore with the Naval Dental Center in Orlando, Fla., the National Naval Dental Center in Bethesda, Md., and with the Marine Corps as officer-in-charge of Detachment One, 22nd Dental Company, 2nd Dental Battalion at Camp Elmore in Norfolk, Va.

CAPT Mitton also completed a staff tour as a Senior Medical and Dental Healthcare Analyst at the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery just prior to his assignment with the TRICARE Dental Care Branch in 2004. He also serves as a Navy delegate for the American Dental Association^®.