Dr. Abdi Sameni is a Clinical Associate Professor of Dentistry at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of the University of Southern California, where he earned his DDS in 1991, and maintains a practice limited to restorative dentistry, WLA Dental Center, in West Los Angeles, California.

He specializes in restorative and esthetic dentistry, including indirect porcelain veneers, with an emphasis on conservative and interdisciplinary treatment approaches.

He is chairman and developer of the USC International Restorative Dentistry Symposium, which he led for eleven years before founding its successor, the Los Angeles Dental Symposium, in 2019. He is a Fellow of the American College of Dentists (FACD) and a member of the Bio-Emulation study group, the Pierre Fauchard Academy, the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry, and Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the national dental honor society.

He lectures nationally and internationally on restorative and esthetic techniques, interdisciplinary dentistry, and digital photography in clinical practice.

At Dental Leaders Academy, he teaches evidence-based approaches to indirect restorations and esthetic case planning.