From a young age, Dr. Boyajian worked in both his father’s and uncle’s dental practices. He received his Bachelor’s degree majoring in chemistry in 1975 from Salem College in West Virginia. Unable to attend dental school to follow in his father’s footsteps, he established Boyajian Dental Laboratory that year in Clarksburg, West Virginia with his wife, Jessica, and brother, Ben Boyajian, Ph.D. During the laboratory’s first ten years, it served over 100 dentists in the Northeast region of the United States, specializing in crowns, bridges, veneers, full-mouth reconstruction, and esthetic dentistry.
In 1984 upon encouragement from the Dean of Admissions, Dr. William Graham, for whom Dr. Boyajian has utmost respect and admiration, he was able to follow his dream and attend dental school. He graduated in 1988 from West Virginia University School of Dentistry. He was the first student to complete all his requirements in his class, after which he was given a teaching position at the University with the title, Clinical Instructor of Prosthodontics. He achieved many honors.