Dr Daniel M. Kunihira

Dr. Daniel Kunihira has practiced periodontics in the Inland Empire since 1982. After finishing his residency training in periodontics at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University (1982), he taught as a full-time faculty member at Loma Linda University School of Dentistry. He currently lectures on a part-time basis and was recently recognized for 35 years of dental education. Dr. Kunihira was born in St. Helena, California, and raised in the Bay area, south of San Francisco. After completion of an undergraduate college education at La Sierra University in 1970, he entered Loma Linda University, School of Dentistry, and graduated with a DDS degree in 1974. At his graduation, he was awarded the Loma Linda University Periodontology Award, the American Academy of Periodontology Award, and inducted into Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the national honor society in dentistry. Dr. Kunihira volunteered for overseas mission work in Okinawa, Japan for a 4 year period. This was followed by his periodontal residency and return to Loma Linda University. Dr. Kunihira has the unique privilege of having both of his children pursuing careers in the dental field. Angie, his daughter, is a dental hygienist. Mark Kunihira joined the group as a periodontist in 2008. Dr. Kunihira and his wife, Linda, enjoy pursuing an active lifestyle with snow skiing and snowshoeing in the winter as well as off-roading on quads and side-by-sides, mountain biking, hiking, and canoeing during the summer months. He also has a great passion for photography. Currently, Dr. Kunihira is working less in the practice, having turned the reins of responsibility to Dr. Mark Kunihira and teaching more in the residency training program at Loma Linda University School of Dentistry.