The 5th Smart Casual Dentistry Σymposium & XXII SE.NA.ME. International Conference

Dr Angelopoulos is a graduate of the Aristotle University, School of Dentistry, Thessaloniki, Greece. His post-doctoral training includes a 3yr internship in Oral Surgery (Aristotle University, 1997) and a 1yr GPR program (Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, 1999). In addition, he has completed a 3yr Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology residency program at University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Dentistry (2001) and he was awarded the MS degree in Oral Biology (2002). He has completed has PhD degree in 2009. His degree was the result of a collaborative effort between Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and University of Missouri-Kansas City. Dr Angelopoulos is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology and a fellow of the International College of Oral Implantologists. He has held academic appointments at University of Missouri-Kansas City (assistant professor 2002-2007) and a t Columbia University, College of Dental Medicine (associate professor and director of the Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Radiology, 2007-2011). He is currently serving as maxillofacial radiology consultant at the Bronx Hospital of Veterans Affairs. Dr Angelopoulos is the Executive Director of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology and has served in the Executive Council of this organization for more than 7 yrs. He is the Associate Editor of Oral Medicine, Oral Surgery, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology (OOOO). He has published more than 30 scientific papers and has spoken in several conventions and CE courses, nationally as well as internationally, on a variety of radiology topics. His main research interests include diagnostic ultrasound, cone beam computed tomography, implant imaging etc. Dr Angelopoulos is licensed in the states of Missouri and New York. He also holds a dental license in Thessaloniki, Greece. He maintains a private practice dedicated to oral and maxillofacial image interpretation and consultation services.

Dr. Rafael Beolchi majored in Dentistry from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in the year 2000. He has maintained a private practice since 2001, working mainly in aesthetic dentistry and oral rehabilitation. In 2009 he received his Master's degree on Biomaterials from the Institute of Energetic and Nuclear Research, from the same University.

He teaches around the world, focusing on advanced handling of dental materials with an easy step-by-step approach that simplifies the procedure and has presented several lectures and workshops addressing those topics in North, Central & South America, Europe, Africa and Asia, in more than 60 countries.

Dr. Beolchi is currently based in Portugal, where he finished his second Master’s degree, in Dental Medicine, working as a dentist and as consultant for esthetic products and materials for the Dental industry, applying his clinical and scientific knowledge in the development of new and better dental products.

He is the author of several articles in Portuguese, Spanish and English, about the topics of direct placed esthetic restorations and lightcuring, topics on which he still maintains his activity as a researcher until today. He also the author of book chapters on the same fields and collaborates on studies with several other institutions around the world.

Nitzan Bichacho, D.M.D. holds the post of expert in prosthodontics at the rank of Professor, at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University and Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel, where he graduated in 1984. Prof. Bichacho is Past President and a Life Member of the European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (EAED) and serves on the editorial boards of leading international dental journals. He developed restorative and prosthetic clinical techniques that have become widely used around the world. Prof. Bichacho publishes and lectures worldwide on dental implant therapy, fixed prosthodontics, interdisciplinary treatments and innovative treatment modalities in esthetic dentistry. The Bichacho Clinic in Tel Aviv focuses on high-end esthetic oriented interdisciplinary treatments, collaborating with world renowned colleagues and dental technicians.

Prof. Pietro Felice graduated in Dentistry and subsequently in Medicine at the University of Bologna. He completed his research doctorate in Dermatological, Maxillofacial and Plastic Reconstructive Sciences. He is currently Associate Professor of Dental Sciences at Bologna University lecturing in Oral Surgery and in Implant Surgery in the Degree Course in Dentistry and Dental Prostheses. He is Head of the Post-graduate School in Oral Surgery and Director of the Master Degree in Implant and Bone Augmentation Surgery. Prof. Felice has published many articles in international journals and serves on the editorial board of specialist international journals. He is a member of leading international associations of implantology and dental surgery.

Sotiria Gizani received her degree in Dentistry from AUTH and then completed her postgraduate studies in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Care for Special Needs at the Catholic University Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium), including a "Master in Dental Sciences" and her PhD. After completing her studies (1998), she returned to Greece and has since been working at the Pediatric Dentistry Laboratory of the Dental School at EKPA, initially as a Lecturer and later as an Assistant Professor. Today, she is an Associate Professor and Director of the Laboratory, as well as responsible for the postgraduate program, which is one of the seven certified pediatric dentistry programs in Europe. In 2018, she was elected Secretary of the European Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (EAPD) with a six-year term. She is also a visiting professor at the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium) and an external examiner for the postgraduate pediatric dentistry program at the University of Liverpool (England). She has given numerous presentations nationally and internationally and has published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Additionally, she has received international awards and honors from the IAPD, EAPD, as well as the Koulouridis Scholarship twice. Her research interests mainly focus on clinical studies related to the prevention and management of caries in children, dental treatment of individuals with special needs, and communication and behavior management of dental patients.

Galip Gürel, DDS, MSc, is the founder and honorary president of the Turkish Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry, a past president of the European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry, and a visiting professor at the New York University, Marseille Dental University, and Istanbul Yeditepe University. He received the 2014 Smigel Prize, which is granted biennially by New York University College of Dentistry to honor the best esthetic dentists in the world. Dr Gürel is the author of The Science and Art of Porcelain Laminate Veneers (Quintessence Publishing, 2003), which has been translated into 12 different languages. He is the editor-in-chief of Quintessence Magazine in Turkey and serves on the editorial boards for several journals.

His areas of special interest include replacement of missing teeth, bite problems, and aesthetic dentistry.  He is a member of the American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics and the American Prosthodontic Society and he annually attends their meetings in Chicago.  Recently he became a faculty member of Spear Education, the leading educational institute in the U.S. Since 2008 Kostas has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate dental students at King’s College (Guy’s Hospital). This involves giving weekly seminars, clinical demonstrations and supervision of patient treatment.  He currently teaches training specialists in Prosthodontics. He is married to Arzu and they have one son, Alexis. In his spare time he enjoys traveling and sports such as football and running

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.

Giulio Rasperini, DDS, is an associate professor of dentistry and periodontology in the Department of Biomedical, Surgical, and Dental Sciences at the University of Milan in Italy and an adjunct clinical associate professor in the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine in the School of Dentistry at the University of Michigan. He serves on the editorial board for The International Journal of Periodontics & Restorative Dentistry, has published and lectured extensively on periodontology and implantology, and is the recipient of several research awards. In 2017, Dr Rasperini founded the iPerio Education Center in Piacenza, Italy, with Dr Giorgio Pagni and Dr Raffaele Acunzo.

Michele Temperani is a certified dental technician who specialized in the field of fixed denture prosthetics in the USA, where he attended the courses of the Tanaka Dental Technology Institute and the seminars of Masahiro Kuwata at the University of Washington.

For three years, he was the head of the ceramic department at Kiyosato Okamoto dental lab in Seattle ( USA ).

Since 1990, he has been co-owner of a dental laboratory in Florence together with his brother where he specializes in aesthetic ceramic restorations. He has been using the press technique for the fabrication of all-ceramic restorations sine 1998.

He conducts courses and holds lectures at international meetings on a regular basis and is the author of numerous publications

Dr Van Dooren attended the Katholieke University in Leuven, Belgium, where he received his degree in dentistry in 1982. After graduation, he opened a private practice in periodontics, fixed prosthodontics, and implants in Antwerp, Belgium. He is an active member of the European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry. Dr Van Dooren lectures nationally and internationally mainly on esthetics, implants, and esthetic periodontal surgery.

Dr. Ioannis Vergoullis graduated from the Dental School of the Kapodestrian University of Athens, Greece in 1999. He received his Certificate in Periodontics and Masters degree in Oral Biology from the Louisiana State University School of Dentistry, New Orleans, USA in 2005. Since 2006, Dr Vergoullis is the leading Periodontist at the Vergoullis Dental Clinic in Rhodes, Greece and in 2010 he became a Visiting Assistant Professor of the Periodontics Department at the Louisiana State University School of Dentistry in New Orleans, USA. Dr. Vergoullis is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and a Fellow and Diplomate of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI). He is also an International member of the American Academy of Periodontology and the ICOI and an honorary member of the Aesthetic Academies of Greece, Lithuania and Bulgaria. Dr. Vergoullis has been an invited keynote speaker in several international meetings in Greece, Spain, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Netherlands, USA and Germany and his main topic of interest is laser assisted periodontal treatment and implantology. Dr. Vergoullis is the co-inventor of the Cervico System by VPI and currently holds seven patents in the field of Dental Implantology.