A Lenoir Rhyne College graduate of 1991 with a B.S in Biology.  In 1995 Dr. Wayne King then graduated with a Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry at Chapel Hill. 

He served as Dental Director for the Catawba County Health Department before establishing his own dental practice in Hickory, NC in 1996. Eleven years later, he returned to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for his Master of Science in endodontics graduating in 2008.

Root canals at Russo Dentistry in Raleigh are performed exclusively by the Triangle’s experienced and UNC-trained endodontist, Dr. Wayne King.