Dr. Eiji Funakoshi earned his DDS degree at Kyushu Dental College in Kitakyushu, Japan; his certificate in periodontology at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts; and his MSD degree at the Indiana University School of Dentistry in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has had several academic appointments in periodontics at the above universities as well as at the Nihon University School of Dentistry in Tokyo, Japan, and Kagoshima University School of Dentistry in Kagoshima, Japan. He taught many years as a clinical professor at Kyushu University School of Dentistry and Fukuoka Dental College both in Fukuoka, Japan. Currently he is a clinical professor in periodontics at Kyushu Dental University in Kitakyushu, Japan. He is a fellow of the International College of Dentists, the American College of Dentists, International Team for Implantology. He is currently a section chairman of the International Team for Implantology Section Japan, a member of the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP), the Japanese Society of Periodontology (JSP), the Japan Dental Association, and the Japanese Academy of Clinical Periodontology (JACP); past president and a founder of the JACP; and past executive board member of the JSP. Dr Funakoshi has published more than 50 publications in national and international journals and given more than150 presentations at national and international meetings. In 2009 he won the AAP Honorary Membership Award. In 2015 he was elected a board member of the ITI at the ITI Annual General Meeting in Istanbul on 25th, April, 2015.