Professor emeritus at the University of Geneva. Past president of the University Clinics of Dental Medicine and past Director of the Department of Preventive Dental Medicine and Primary Dental Care and Chairman, Division of Cariology and Endodontology, University Clinics of Dental Medicine (CUMD). Focused on noninvasive restorative treatments, adhesive restorations of vital and devital teeth, lasers in dentistry, CAD/CAM manufacturing, 3D printing, digital 3D smile design, dental photography, novel caries diagnostic methods, personalized dental prevention, AI-empowered monitoring concepts and artificial intelligence in dentistry in general. Under my 9-years presidency from 2009 to 2018, the new revolutionary facility of the University Clinics of Dental Medicine of the University of Geneva with 90 clinical and 32 preclinical workstations was designed, constructed and successfully opened: https://youtu.be/7xdL4EH3g08. I also introduced the first structured dental continuing education program in Switzerland, "Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Microinvasive esthetic dentistry", the only dental MAS in Switzerland awarded with full accreditation by the aaq: https://www.unige.ch/formcont/cours/mas-microinvasive-aesthetic-dentistry-2019 Together with Prof. Irena Sailer, we recently developed and introduced at the University of Geneva Switzerland's first and only Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Digital dental technologies https://www.unige.ch/medecine/fr/enseignement1/formationcontinue/mas/digital-dental-technologies/ Under my leadership and coming from nowhere, the University Clinics of Dental Medicine of the University of Geneva reached 23rd place in the QS World University Ranking in 2018: https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2018/dentistry. Together with Prof. Albert Feilzer, I have been serving as co-director of several PhD theses at the Academic Centre for Dentistry (ACTA), Amsterdam. ACTA is rated 2nd best in the QS World University Ranking in 2022: https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2022/dentistry. The goal of modern dentistry is anti-aging and lifelong oral health. This vision is now becoming real by implementing AI-empowered early diagnosis and regular monitoring, individualized prevention, microregenerative procedures, as well as painless noninvasive early interventions.

Hilal is a dental technician who practices in Bodrum/ Turkey. He qualified from Istanbul University in 1999, and gives presentations and courses both nationally and internationally on dental ceramics, implant supported restorations and smile design. You can reach him at “@detailmacro” on Instagram, Hilal Kuday on Facebook and Hilal Kuday YouTube channel.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kühl is a specialist in Oral Surgery. He is Vice Clinical Director of the Department of Oral Surgery, University Center for Dental Medicine Basel UZB, Switzerland. Since 2018, he has been Founder and Head of the Competence Center for Implantology at the UZB, and President of the Swiss Society for Oral Surgery and Stomatology (SSOS).

Studium der Zahnmedizin in Berlin bis 1999. Promotion 2000 – (Thema: ECC in der kinderärztlichen Praxis). Nach allgemeinzahnärztlicher Praxiszeit wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Abteilung für Prothetik und Alterszahnmedizin der Charité Berlin 2000-2003. Kieferorthopädisches Masterprogram 2002-2004 an der Danube Universität Krems. Ab 2003 (Weiterbildungsassistent in der Abteilung für Kieferorthopädie– Humboldt Universität Berlin “Charité“ und im Anschluss in privater Praxis in Berlin-Zehlendorf. 2006 Gebietsbezeichnung „Facharzt für Kieferorthopädie“. 2007-2011 Tätigkeit in kieferorthopädischen Praxen in Deutschland und England. Niederlassung in privater Praxis in Groß-Gerau 2011. Teilnahme am Mc Laughlin Program 2014-2015 und dem lingualen Master für Kieferorthopädie Valencia 2018-2019. Verschiedene Veröffentlichungen z.B. zu Themen Klasse II Behandlung und interdisziplinäre Behandlung und über 100 Fortbildungen im In- und Ausland.

Dr. Purnima Kumar is the William and Mary K. Najjar Endowed professor of Dentistry and Chair of the Department of Periodontology and Oral Medicine at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry.  She received her dental degree from Annamalai University and MS in Periodontology from Dr. MGR Medical University in India.  She later received her Certificate in Periodontology and Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Microbiology from The Ohio State University.  Dr. Kumar previously served as professor of periodontology and chair of the oral biology PhD program at The Ohio State University College of Dentistry and James Cancer Center.  

Dr. Kumar is the Principal Investigator of Oral Microbial Ecology Laboratory at the University of Michigan that has been continuously funded through the NIH for over 15 years. She also collaborates extensively with the oral healthcare industry to develop therapeutics for microbial modulation. 

She is a Fellow of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program, the American Association of Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Research and the American and International College of Dentists.  She has authored over 100 papers and book chapters and serves as the Co-Editor of Clinical Advances in Periodontics, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Periodontology, Periodontology 2000, Nature Scientific Reports and Microbiome. She is an active clinician, teacher, researcher and administrator, has mentored several pre-dental, dental, master’s, doctoral and post-doctoral students and junior faculty colleagues and has served on several grant review panels for the NIH. She serves as the Chair of the Continuing Education Oversight Committee for the AAP and is a member of the AAP’s Taskforce for Future Science. She is a member of the Council of Scientific Affairs of the ADA and is their official spokesperson on e-cigarettes and vaping. Dr. Kumar has served on various committees of IADR and is presently the Vice-President of the Periodontal Research Group. She also serves on several task forces for women in science, women in surgery and women in STEM, and volunteers for groups that empower women locally and nationally.

She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and actively participates in patient care limited to periodontics and implant surgery.

Before becoming a dentist, he completed his undergraduate degree at Washington University in St. Louis, then attended New York University College of Dentistry. While he has been in practice for over three decades, he truly enjoys his work and believes in the power of continuing education at every level. Dr. Lamberg has served as an associate clinical professor at Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine and has served as Chief of Staff at the Jewish Home and Hospital in New York City. A strong interest in cosmetic dentistry led him to the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry and he served as the president of the New York Chapter in 1998.  After completing all the courses at the Dawson Academy he studied at the Misch Institute and then went on to complete the curriculum and become a graduate of the Kois Center.  He is currently a Scientific Advisor for the Kois Center and regularly attends meetings and most recently spoke at their 2018 symposium in Seattle. Dr. Steven Lamberg invented the Lamberg SleepWell Oral Appliance and holds several related patents. He is on the editorial review board of Dental Sleep Practice and has contributed many articles to help dentists launch dental sleep medicine as an integral part of their general practice. Additionally, he holds seminars for other dentists and providers to offer a comprehensive curriculum on dental sleep medicine under his Lamberg Seminars brand. Always passionate about sleep and total body wellness, the Lamberg Seminars brand was started after he became a Diplomate in the Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine in 2011 and he has served as a faculty member for their board review courses ever since becoming a member. Dr. Lamberg currently lectures nationally as well as internationally on topics related to dental sleep medicine and wellness and has published both adult and pediatric sleep screening questionnaires.  He is currently involved with research evaluating sleep disordered breathing and autism. Dr. Lamberg has also launched a pediatric and adult airway network of Long Island, aka PAANNY, where dentists and physicians collaborate on treating patients in an effort to prevent obstructive sleep apnea in adults.

Panagiotis Lampropoulos was born in Athens in 1977. He finished school at the German School of Athens (1995) and enrolled at Dental School Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg, Germany, after taking the state exam (Abitur). In 2000 he began the preparation of his doctoral thesis at the Prosthodontics department and in 2003 he received his Doctorate of Dental Faculty from the University of Freiburg (Dr. Med. Dent) as a postgraduate student. Furthermore in 2001 he attended a postgraduate program in Applied Management in Dentistry. In 2004 he returned to Greece and fulfilled his military service as a dentist. From 2005 to 2013 he worked as a research associate and from 2019 he is clinical instructor in the postgraduate program in the Department of Prosthetic Dentistry at the School of Dentistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Dr. Panagiotis Lampropoulos has graduated the EAO’s Master diploma in implant dentistry (Class 2017). He maintains a private practice in Athens since 2005 limited to prosthetic dentistry and dental implants. He has trained dentists in implant prosthetics and he is an international trainer for MIS, Dentsply. He is a member and a registered speaker of the ITI (International Team of Implantology), member of EAO (European Association of Osseointegration), the European Prosthodontic Association (EPA) and the Digital Dentistry Society (DDS) and an active member of Hellenic Academy of Esthetic Dentistry. He is member of the board of Stomatological Society of Greece and of the Greek Prosthodontic Society. Panagiotis Lampropoulos is an international speaker and has made numerous presentations in multiple conferences about guided implantology and digital dentistry.

Professor Niklaus P. Lang is the author of more than 730 publications. He holds four honorary doctorates and honorary membership of 20 national and international associations. In 1968, he was awarded the Swiss Dental Association’s renowned Prix Louis Metzger, and in 1992, he received the IADR’s Basic Science in Periodontal Disease Award. He is a past president of the ITI and the Swiss Society for Periodontology (SSP) and was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Clinical Oral Implants Research until 2016. He is active in clinical research related to implant dentistry, periodontology, etiology and pathogenesis of peri-implant infections, risk evaluation, wound healing, and oral microbiology. From 2008 to 2012, he built up the curriculum in implant dentistry at the University of Hong Kong after having headed the Department of Periodontology and Fixed Prosthodontics at the University of Bern, Switzerland from 1978 to 2008.

Burton Langer, DMD, MScD, was one of the first periodontists trained in osseointegration by Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark. He has lectured extensively throughout the world and has written over 50 articles and chapters for ten textbooks. He is the recipient of the 1992 Isador Hirschfeld Award for Clinical Excellence, the 1997 American Academy of Periodontology Master Clinician Award, and the 2015 Robert Eskow New York University College of Dentistry/Implant Dentistry Award. Dr Langer was named an honorary member of the American College of Prosthodontists in 2016.