2024 SADA Dental & Oral Health Congress and Exhibition
Sun Arena, Time Square, Pretoria
Friday, August 30, 2024 to Sunday,
September 1, 2024 GMT+2
Sun Arena, Time Square, Pretoria
209 Aramist Ave, Waterkloof Glen
PROGRAM OVERVIEW: 29th – 30th August 2024
Contact Organizer: +27 114845288
PROF Anton Sculean
FROM SWITZERLAND APPEARING at SASPIO
SPEAKER COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA
Anton Sculean is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Periodontology and currently the Head of the Dental Research Center (DRC) of the School
of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland. Prof. Sculean has authored more than 520 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 40 chapters in periodontal textbooks and has delivered more than 650 lectures at national and international meetings. He is Editor in Chief of Periodontology 2000, the top ranked journal in Periodontology and Implant Dentistry.
Prof. Sculean has been a recipient of many research awards, among others the Distinguished Scientist Award of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), the Anthony Rizzo Young Investigator Award of the Periodontal Research Group (PRG) of the IADR, the IADR/PRG Award in Regenerative Periodontal Medicine, the Distinguished Teacher Award of the European Orthodontic Society, and Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP). He was awarded honorary doctorates (Dr.h.c.) by the Victor Babes University Timisoara, Romania, the Semmelweis University Budapest and the Carol Davila University, Bucharest, Romania.
Professor Sculean is currently listed as the top-rated expert in Periodontics in the world. His h-Index is 95 (google scholar) and 65 (web of science). He is Past President of the Periodontal Research Group of the IADR, of the Swiss Society of Periodontology, of the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) and of the International Academy of Periodontology (IAP). He is board member of the Executive Committee of the EFP, of the Osteology Foundation, of the Oral Reconstruction Foundation and President Elect of the Continental European Division (CED) of the IADR.
His research interests focus on periodontal wound healing and regeneration, regenerative and plastic-esthetic periodontal surgery, use of antibiotics, antiseptics, and novel approaches such as lasers and photodynamic therapy in the treatment of periodontal and peri-implant infections.
