{"id":452227,"date":"2021-09-03T11:11:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northernvirginiamag.com\/best\/%listing_categories%\/francisco-t-carlos\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:09:21","slug":"francisco-t-carlos","status":"publish","type":"listings","link":"https:\/\/northernvirginiamag.com\/best\/dentists\/francisco-t-carlos\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco T. Carlos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon completing his periodontal training, Dr. Carlos joined the United States Air Force as a commissioned officer, where he treated our active duty military members and taught periodontics to the Advanced Education in General Dentistry residents. 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In addition, he is a Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Laser Dentistry, and is a co-founder and co-leader of the Northern Virginia Periodontics Synergy Study Series, the Northern Virginia Periodontics Spear Study Club, and the Northern Virginia Periodontics Hygiene Study Series.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Carlos was selected as a 2016 Top Dental Specialist by the Washington Consumers\u2019 Checkbook, was nominated by his peers as a Top Periodontist in Virginia Living Magazine for 2017, 2018, and was selected as a 2019 Washingtonian Top Dentist.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Carlos has offices located&nbsp; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernvaperio.com\/contact-our-periodontists\/\">Falls Church<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernvaperio.com\/contact-our-periodontists\/\">Alexandria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","listing_categories":[53892],"areas_of_focus":[53920],"class_list":["post-452227","listings","type-listings","status-publish","hentry","listing_categories-dentists","areas_of_focus-periodontics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.2 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Francisco T. 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