Dr. Atassi received his Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from Tufts University, School of Dental Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1996, and his certificate in the specialty of Prosthodontics from the University of California, San Francisco in 2000. In June of 2000, Dr. Atassi was awarded a Scholarship, and received further surgical and restorative training in implant dentistry at Harvard School of Dental Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.