Luca De Stavola covers the position of Visiting professor of Periodontology and lecturer for the Osseointegrated implantology Master of the University of Padua (Italy). Graduaded in 2001 at the University of Padua (Italy) dental school, Luca De Stavola gets his specialization in Oral Surgeryin 2007 at the “Privatzahnklinik Schloss Schellenstein” (Westfalen-Lippe, Germany) under the guidance of Prof. F. Khoury; in the same year he concludes the Master of Oral Medicine in implantology at the Westfalischen Wilhelms University in Münster (Germany). An internationally renowned speaker for his interdisciplinary approach between periodontology and restorative surgery, Luca De Stavola is author of several research peer reviewed papers, and is an active SIO (Italian Association of Osseointegrated Implantology) and EAO (European Academy of Osseointegration) member, and is widely considered one of the most emerging Italian speakers in bone reconstruction and soft tissue management. His latest publications and courses focus on computer-guided bone surgery and optimal soft tissue management.

Marco Degidi, DDS, is an adjunct professor for the postgraduate master’s in clinical implantology at the University of Bologna. He is an active member of the Academy of Osseointegration and a diplomate of the International College of Oral Implantology. Dr Degidi is the inventor of the WeldOne Concept as well as the Conometric Concept. He has published 153 articles on peer-reviewed journals and received numerous awards. Dr Degidi lectures internationally in the fields of immediate loading, primary stability, biomaterials, and esthetic dentistry and maintains a private practice limited to implant surgery and prosthetics in Bologna, Italy.

Massimo Del Fabbro graduated with a degree in biology from the University of Milan, where he also earned his PhD in human physiology and is currently an associate professor in dentistry. He was director of the Research Centre in Oral Health from 2011 to 2016 and has been Director of the PhD program in Oral Sciences at the University of Milan since 2015. In 2002 he became Head of the Section of Oral Pathophysiology at the IRCCS Galeazzi Orthopaedic Institute in Milan. Dr Del Fabbro is also a founding member and active member of the ANTHEC (Academy of Non-Transfusional Hemo-Components). His current research fields are periodontology, implant dentistry, endodontics and endodontic surgery, biomaterials and tissue engineering and biology of platelet concentrates.

Nicholas M. Dello Russo, DMD, MScD, is an instructor in periodontics at Harvard University School of Dental Medicine and an attending periodontist in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and a member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon and the International College of Dentists.

Professor Korkud Demirel, DDS, graduated from Tarsus American School in 1980, and from Istanbul University, Faculty of Dentistry, in 1985. He worked as a visiting lecturer at New York University, Stony Brook School of Dentistry, Department of Periodontology in 1989 and 1990. He attained his PhD in 1992 and became Professor in 2002. He was awarded the title of Honorary Professor by the Ukrainian Academy of Postgraduate Education in 2018. His professional areas of interest include esthetic periodontal treatment, dental implants, bone regeneration, and smoking and gingival diseases. He was Past President of the Turkish Society of Periodontology, and was Past President of the European Federation of Periodontology.

Dr Di Febo graduated from the University of Bologna, Italy, with a degree in Medicine and Surgery and completed postgraduate specialization in stomatology and prosthodontics. He is a founding member of the Italian Academy of Prosthetic Dentistry (AIOP) and its former president (1995–1996). He was Bologna Provincial Medical Board Dentistry Roll Council Chairman from 1994 to 1999 and a full member of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) board from 1994 to 1996. Dr Di Febo has held lectureships in fixed prosthodontics at the University of Bologna, Italy,Faculty of Dentistry from 1983 until the present. He has been a guest speaker at many conferences, lifelong learning courses, and Italian and international congresses. Dr Di Febo currently works in private practice limited to fixed prosthodontics at Porta Mascarella Medical Center in Bologna, Italy.

Serge Dibart, DMD, MSD, is professor and chair of the Department of Periodontology at the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. He has been working on surgically accelerated orthodontics for the past 14 years and developed Piezocision in 2009 as a minimally invasive alternative to existing surgical procedures. Dr Dibart lectures extensively nationally and internationally, has published in peer-reviewed journals, and is the author of four books. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and maintains a private practice limited to periodontics and implant dentistry in Boston, Massachusetts.