In 1996 he was retired from the United States Navy Dental Corps where he was a chair of the Department of Endodontics and a director of Postdoctoral Endodontics in Bethesda, Maryland.
Mounce attended Santa Clara University and graduated in 1981 with a BS in Chemistry, he received his D.D.S. from Northwestern University Dental School in 1985, and a certificate in Endodontics from the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Endodontic Program in 1991.
Harmeet D. Walia later utilized the alloy in the manufacture of root canal files for endodontics.