Dr. Rex Cockrell, MD, DDS
Meet Dr. Rex Cockrell
Rex D. Cockrell, MD, DDS is an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon with over 22 years of clinical experience.
He is Board Certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and is licensed as both a Physician and a Dentist.
Dr. Cockrell earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Dentistry, graduating cum laude in 1998.
He then attended Medical School at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine earning his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in 2001.
In 2002, he completed a one-year internship in General Surgery at Methodist Hospital in Dallas, where he participated in a broad range of surgical care including appendix and gallbladder surgeries, limb amputations, penetrating trauma management and surgery for Gun Shot and Stab wounds and all other forms of acute surgical care.
He then completed his specialty training in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2004 at Baylor University Hospital's Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
In addition to his surgical residency, Dr. Cockrell completed formal Anesthesia training for Level 4 Licensure in the delivery of all levels of anesthesia-including General Anesthesia through Parkland Hospital and Baylor University Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
Prior to his anesthesia training and his two doctoral degrees, Dr. Cockrell completed his undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology with an emphasis in Marine Biology.
During his undergraduate years he lived and studied abroad in Israel and Egypt, contributed to molecular genetics research on G6PD polymorphism in ancient Egyptian human populations, and worked as a scientific scuba diver in marine biology research and specimen collection at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey, California.
Dr. Cockrell lectures and trains other clinicians in both the clinical and professional aspects of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. His work has been published in two textbooks and in The International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Implants on cutting-edge topics including dental implants, distraction osteogenesis, and tibial bone graft harvesting for sinus lift procedures and other craniofacial bone augmentation.
Dr. Cockrell is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, a member of the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the Texas Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the Seeds Scientific Research & Performance Institute and The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
