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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®.
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