William A. McHale

Bill McHale recently retired as Senior Vice President for Product Development at the Premier Dental Products Company. His career spanned nearly thirty years introducing a number of innovative products to the professional dental marketplace. His focus included remineralizing technologies featuring ACP fluoride treatments, remineralizing dentifrices as well as a suite of popular whitening products. He developed the world market leading hemostatic agent Traxodent® and introduced a novel dental resin sealant utilizing the first application of a fluoride/calcium/phosphate releasing microencapsulation system to assist in the inhibition of caries. His latest product to enter the marketplace was a light-weight cordless prophy hand piece, AeroPro®. He holds 16 patents and has co-authored numerous papers and delivered multiple presentations on dental materials. He also has extensive experience in both US and international regulatory affairs, successfully negotiating clearances for sundry medical devices. Prior to joining Premier, Bill was the co-founder and President of Accumin Analysis, a contract analytical laboratory in Houston, Texas, specializing in scanning electron microscopy and powder X-Ray diffraction analysis. Bill received his BS in Biology from Penn State University and attended graduate studies at the University of Houston, specializing in Geophysics.