Dr. Powers has been practicing dentistry for more than 40 years. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, receiving his dental degree in 1980. After a general practice dental residency, Dr. Powers began practicing in Greenbelt, Maryland in 1981. He was Chairman of the Dental Department of a Washington, D.C. Area Trauma Hospital for more than a decade. There he was involved in training dental residents that graduated from dental schools across the United States.