Dr. Robert W. Gordon has a passion for art and facial aesthetics. This passion shines through in his unique approach to lip and perioral augmentation: a direct result of his background in art education. Dr. Gordon lectures often, instructing oral/facial augmenters on his classification, diagnostic and reconstructive lip and perioral augmentation techniques. Dr. Gordon is an associate researcher in the Department of Dermatology at the University of South Florida medical school. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in clinical and translational science in the area of cosmetic dermatology. Dr. Gordon graduated from Marquette University School of Dentistry in 1997 and continued his education in a residency program in periodontics, as well as additional oral/surgery training. In addition, Dr. Gordon was accepted to one of the nation's top-ranked art schools: Savannah School of Art and Design, where he was accepted into the master's program of Fine Arts in Painting prior to relocating to Florida . While practicing predominantly cosmetic dentistry, he became aware of the intimate correlation of dentistry and cosmetic and perioral augmentation. It was this find that led him to author Vermilion Dollar Lips: a groundbreaking textbook that addresses the science and art of lip and perioral augmentation. Dr. Gordon's mission is to optimize lip and perioral aesthetics through the advancement of current techniques, dissemination of cutting-edge knowledge and the union of the vast body of practitioners participating in oral/facial augmentation.