Dr. Chapman is originally from San Antonio, Texas and completed his undergraduate studies at Texas A&M University. He obtained his dental education in his hometown of San Antonio at the University of Texas Health Science Center, graduating in 1998. He moved to middle Tennessee to take his first associate dental position in Madison and join the songwriting scene in Nashville.

In 2004, Dr. Chapman chose a different path in dentistry, and he began working as a missionary for the organization Mercy Ships, and continued working with them for the next eight years. It is here that Dr. Chapman began to gain extensive surgical experience under Mercy Ships’ long term oral surgeon Gary Parker and developed a passion for oral surgery. After his four years aboard Mercy Ships, Dr. Chapman and his family moved full time to Liberia and co-founded Trinity Dental Clinic. He is very happy that, to this day, the clinic continues to provide affordable dentistry to thousands of patients a year in Liberia and has trained several Liberians as assistants, lab technicians, and practitioners.