Dr. Croft was Utah's first American Dental Board of Anesthesia Diplomate and specialist in dental anesthesiology. Before earning his DDS at the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine, Dr. Croft graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah. He completed a hospital-based, CODA-accredited, residency in Dental Anesthesiology at the Stony Brook University Medical Center and is licensed to provide all levels of sedation/anesthesia. He also is leading the charge in pushing educational offerings and standards in pain and anxiety management into the 21st century by heading a joint effort by the AGD and the ASDA to create a national, top-to-bottom curriculum and course offerings in all things pain and anxiety management. He is also Director at Large for the American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists and the Dean of the Institute for the Management of Pain and Anxiety, also known as "The IMPA."