For the first 10 years of his practice, until liability insurance costs priced him out of the market, Dr. Benton included obstetrics as part of his family practice. Newborn care remains part of normal Family Practice. He has performed hundreds of no-scalpel vasectomies in the office, and continues to do many minor surgical procedures including removing warts, skin cancers, and other suspicious lesions. He has participated in many additional courses including colposcopy, endoscoy: EGD (EsophagoGastroDuodenoscopy), Colonoscopy, and nasopharygoscopy. Due to poor insurance company reimbursement, we no longer do endoscopy in the office (colonoscopy, EGD, or nasopharyngoscopy) Dr. Benton has taken over 50 hours of continuing medical education each year and has maintained board certification and recertification in Family Practice every six to seven years. Dr. Benton has special interests in treating Diabetes, Hypertension, and psychiatric disorders amenable to medical treatment.

Dr. Benton has actively served as a preceptor for Family Nurse Practitioner students from Arizona State University. For several years, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Desert Physicians Association. As well as, Dr. Benton is on the active staff at Banner Desert Hospital (Desert Samaritan Hospital), with courtesy non-admitting status at Banner Mesa (Mesa Lutheran Hospital).

In 1992, Dr. Benton spent ten days With the Arizona Voluntary Medical Team sponsored by Cindy McCain, Senator McCain's wife, in El Salvador. In 2002 and 2003, he also served with "Hands Across the Ocean" to the Kingdom of Tonga in the south pacific for two weeks to provide medical care.

Dr. Benton spent two years in Guatemala and El Salvador as a Mormon Missionary and speaks Spanish fluently. He enjoys snow skiing and water sports with his two teenage sons, and takes a special interest in computers.