About Oswald I. Cameron-Morales, DDS
Dr. Oswald Cameron-Morales was born in 1951 in Trinidad and Tobago, migrating with his parents to Puerto Rico soon after. The second of five children, he followed his father's footsteps by starting a career in dentistry. He grew up watching his father practice dentistry with a great sense of quality, care, humility, and professionalism. He demonstrated that dentistry was a mission to promote prevention, restoration, and maintenance of oral health. After graduating from Howard University's® College of Dentistry in 1979, he practiced dentistry in Puerto Rico until moving to Washington, D.C. in 1987, where he established a private practice. Dr. Cameron's dental practice has a mission to serve the community by providing not only clinical services, but also guiding those in need to area facilities that can provide dental or medical healthcare at an affordable or free cost. Fluent in Spanish and English, his practice serves a multicultural community. Other than his clinical practice, Dr. Cameron has expanded his profession to include: Dental Director for Advantage Health Plans, Inc.; President of the Hispanic Dental Association of the Washington Metropolitan Area; volunteer at the Spanish Catholic Center; and many outreach programs with the Latin American Youth Center, Bell multicultural and Lincoln Middle School, Bancroft and other community schools. Participant in numerous community organizations. In 1999, he was appointed by the city's mayor to the Board of Dentistry, ending his third term in January 2008. He is a member of the Commission on Dental Competency Assessment (former North East Regional Board of Examiners) which administers the licensing exam for dentistry and dental hygiene for 15 northeastern states. Since 1998, he served as a volunteer in ECUADENT, a non-profit organization and presently is Dental Director for The Healing Hands Foundation, providing dental care to children in need overseas. More than 17 years volunteering in medical missions has taken him to Ecuador, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Dominican Republic , British Guyana, Cuba and Panama.
