Dr. Ronald Gallerano - Orthodontic Specialist

Dr. Gallerano earned his DDS degree, graduating as valedictorian from Louisiana State University dental school in New Orleans in 1972. He served in the United States Navy as a Dental Officer for two years immediately following graduation. After his honorable discharge, he enrolled in the orthodontic residency program at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he received his Masters of Science Degree in 1976. His Master's thesis examined crowding of the lower front teeth, ten years or more after completion of treatment. He subsequently moved back to Houston, where he was in private practice until 2010. In 1981 he opened his Santa Fe office, which is now his primary office.

The American Dental Association (ADA), American Association of Orthodontists (AAO), and state and local dental societies have been a part of his professional affiliations since he was able to belong. He served on multiple committees and held multiple offices in the Greater Houston Dental Society.  In addition, he was a founding member and has continued to be actively involved in the Bayou City Orthodontic Study Club since it's inception in 1981. From 1989 to 1994 , he served on the AAO Council on Scientific Affairs. He has won numerous awards for clinical cases in the "Texas Tweed" study club, and served as its president during the name transition to "Texas Orthodontic Study Club" in 2005. He has given presentations to that study group and also to the Southwestern Society or Orthodontists and has had the honor of lecturing at the national AAO meetings in 2007, 2011, 2016, 2017 & 2019.   In 2021, Dr. Ron Gallerano was awarded the Martin Dewey Award, which is the highest honor of the Southwest Society of Orthodontists (SWSO), recognizing outstanding contributions and advancements to the field of Orthodontics.

Dr. Gallerano joined the University of Texas Orthodontic Faculty in 1991 at the request of Dr. Dan West, then Department Chairman. He is currently a Clinical Associate Professor, being responsible for both lecturing and clinical case management with first and second year residents. He has directed the Ten Year Post-Treatment case presentations since its inception in 1997. His areas of teaching interest are in diagnosis and treatment planning, cephalometrics, post-retention cases, mixed dentition treatment and Class III treatment.

Family is an important part of his life.  Dr. Gallerano and his wife (a dental hygienist) have been blessed with three married children, and four grandchildren. All three children have obtained a college degree. Their youngest daughter, Natalie Gallerano Willis, graduated with honors from dental school at UT School of Dentistry in Houston in 2019 and subsequently completed her Master’s Degree in orthodontics at UT in 2021.  Dr. Gallerano Willis joined Dr. Gallerano in practice in Santa Fe in September 2021. She is now the third generation of dentists in the Gallerano family.