Arnold Porges, former clinical associate professor in the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, died May 16. He was 88.

Dr. Porges graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and then University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 1959. 

Dr. Porges joined the faculty at Penn as an assistant instructor in operative dentistry upon graduating. He went to become an instructor and then associate professor in the same department before becoming an adjunct assistant professor in restorative dentistry in 1975. He stayed in that position for nine years before becoming an assistant professor in the same department. In 1987, Dr. Porges became an assistant clinical professor of preventative and restorative science in the Dental School. From 2014 to 2016, he served as a clinical associate professor. In 2007, he received the Alumni Award of Merit from the Dental School, an award “given to those graduates who have maintained their ties with the School through their support of alumni activities, demonstrated leadership in the dental profession, and fostered and maintained the ideals that the School of Dental Medicine has stood for since its founding.”

For over five decades, Dr. Porges also had a private dental practice in Wynnewood. He served as a second lieutenant and chemical engineer in the US Air Force. 

He is survived by his wife, Eileen; children, Stefanie (Gerald Lawrence), Jennifer (Joseph Manko, Jr.), Gregory (Diana), and Marisa (Scott Moore); and grandchildren, Nicole Wolfson, Tara Wolfson, Dean Manko, Alec Manko, Max Porges, Harrison Porges, Dylan Porges, and Isaac Moore.