Dr. Philip B. Conti
Clinical Director & General Dentist
Dr. Philip B. Conti was born in Everett, Massachusetts, and raised in Malden, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Malden High School and attended Brandeis University from 1953 to 1957. He graduated with a bachelor’s in biology. During 1958 and 1962, he simultaneously attended the New England Conservatory of Music (special voice student) and Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, achieving his Doctor of Dental Medicine degree. Dr. Conti worked at the Cancer Research Department at Tufts Medical Center from 1958 to 1962 as a biologist, screening steroids on a National Institute of Health Grant and co-authored many research publications.
Dr. Conti is a member and past president of the East Middlesex District Dental Society. He is also a member of the Massachusetts Dental Society, serving in the House of Delegates as a past Chairman of the Liaison Committee of Dental Auxiliaries. He is a lifetime member of the American Dental Association (ADA) and represented Massachusetts at ADA conferences on dental auxiliaries in Anaheim, California, and Chicago, Illinois.
From 1970 to 1980, Dr. Conti was the dental instructor at the Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School for the post graduate dental assisting and dental laboratory technology programs. It was the only dental auxiliary program to be nationally accredited in it's first year.
Dr. Conti was voted by Reader’s Choice Best Dentist in Malden 2012 and 2013, and honorably mentioned in 2014 and 2015.
Dr. Conti has been married to his high school sweetheart, Ruth Dockendorff Conti, for over 60 years. They have two daughters, Laura Conti Zink and Annalise Conti, and three granddaughters, Rebecca C. Munro, Emma C. Munro and Charlotte E. Zink.
Outside Interests:
Since his junior high school years, Dr. Conti has had a passion for music and theater. As a tenor soloist, he has been in numerous performances including opera, operetta and in church. He has sung in England, Portugal, Ireland and Canada as well as throughout New England, Pennsylvania and New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Community Service:
In 1971, Dr. Conti was instrumental in starting Project Triangle, a vocational rehabilitation program for individuals with disabilities in an abandoned church in Malden with five clients and one paid staff person. He was their first President of the Board of Directors for 15 years and then was an active board member for another 20 years. Now called Triangle, Inc., it currently serves over 3,000 individuals on an annual basis with North and South Shore satellite facilities, 10 community residences and a budget of approximately $20,000,000.
Dr. Conti has been a member of the Board of Governors at Tufts Medical Center for over 10 years. And for over 65 years, he has been a dedicated member and current Moderator of the Maplewood Baptist Church in Malden.