The Academy of General Dentistry announced that Bryan C. Edgar, DDS, MAGD, of Federal Way, was elected as the association’s speaker of the house during the academy’s annual meeting, which took place June 18-21 in San Francisco.

A member of the Academy of General Dentistry since 1977, Edgar has been involved on both the local and national levels for many years. He has served the Washington Academy of General Dentistry as membership chair, secretary, treasurer, vice president, president-elect and president and is currently the constituent’s legislative chair. Nationally, Edgar served on the Academy of General Dentistry Constitution, bylaws, and Judicial Affairs Council from 2005 to 2011, and spent six of those years as its chair.

As a member of the Academy of General Dentistry Investment Committee since 2007, Edgar helped grow the organization’s investments to approximately $15 million. As a result, a large part of the new Academy of General Dentistry headquarters building in Chicago was paid for with investment earnings.

Edgar is a 1976 graduate of the University of Washington School of Dentistry. He went on to complete the U.S. Army general practice residency program at Fort Riley in Kansas.

He and his wife Linda have a full-time private practice in Federal Way.