Dr. Craig Duren grew up in Spring Valley, Wisconsin. He attended undergraduate school at the University of St. Thomas and earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree from Northwestern University School of Dentistry in Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He also received advanced continuing education in orthodontics in November 1997. Dr. Duren is a member of the American Dental Association, the Minnesota Dental Association and the St. Paul District Dental Society. He was voted one of the Mpls/St Paul Top Dentists in 2005 by his peers. He has received the American Top Dentist Award in 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 , 2015 and 2019. He has also been recognized as a Top Invisalign Dentist for 2019.