Edited by
Jean-François Roulet, DDS, PhD, Prof hc
Rolf Ewers, MD, DMD, PhD
Marian-Vladimir Constantinescu, DDS, PhD
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editors-in-Chief
Jean-François Roulet
DDS, PhD, Prof hc, Professor
Department of Restorative Dental Science
College of Dentistry
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL, USA
Rolf Ewers
MD, DMD, PhD, Professor and Chairman em.
University Hospital for Cranio
Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Marian-Vladimir Constantinescu
DDS, PhD, Professor
Department of Oral Rehabilitation
Faculty of Dental Medicine “Titu Maiorescu”
University of Bucharest
Bucharest, Romania
Co-Editors-in-Chief (Americas)
Hom-Lay Wang
DDS, MSD, PhD
Collegiate Professor of Periodontics
Professor, Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine
School of Dentistry, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Mauro Marincola
MD, DDS
Clinical Assistant Professor
Professor, State University of Cartagena
Cartagena, Colombia
George E. Romanos
DDS, PhD, DMD
Professor, Department of Periodontology
School of Dental Medicine
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY, USA
Co-Editors-in-Chief (Europe)
Nicoleta Ilie
Dipl-Ing, PhD
Professor, Department of Operative Dentistry
and Periodontology, Faculty of Medicine
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
München, Germany
Alexandre Mersel
DDS, PhD
Professor, Director FDI Eastern Europe
Jerusalem, Israel
Constantinus Politis
MD, DDS, MM, MHA, PhD
Professor and Chairperson, Department of Oral
and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Medicine
University of Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Co-Editors-in-Chief (Asia-Pacific)
Lakshman Samaranayake
DSc (hc), DDS (Glas), DSRCSE (hon)
FRCPath (UK), FRACDS (hon)
Professor, Department of Oral Microbiomics and
Infection, Head, School of Dental Medicine
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Takahiro Ono
DDS, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Prosthodontics
Gerodontology and Oral Rehabilitation
Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University
Osaka, Japan
Mahesh Verma
BDS, MDS, MBA, FAMS, FDSRCS (England), FDSRCPSG
(Glasgow), FDSRCS (Edinburgh), PhD (HC)
Professor, Department of Prosthodontics
Director – Principal
Maulana Azad Institute of Den х