Dr. Kokich Jr. received his dental degree from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 1996 and completed a general practice residency at the University of Washington Medical Center in 1997. He remained at the University of Washington for his orthodontic training where he obtained his Masters in Orthodontics in 1999. Since then he has remained on faculty in the Department of Orthodontics as an Affi liate Assistant Professor while maintaining a private practice in Tacoma, Washington. He has received the Charles L. Pincus Research Award for Clinical Research from the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry and his current research and publications are primarily involved with esthetic, interdisciplinary dentistry. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontists and a member of both the Angle Society and the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry. He has written or co-written four book chapters as well as numerous scientifi c and review articles. Dr. Kokich has given over 250 lectures nationally and internationally on interdisciplinary dentistry and dental esthetics emphasizing comprehensive treatment planning and the importance of properly sequencing orthodontic, periodontal, and restorative treatment.

Jim Janakievski received his D.D.S. from the University of Toronto, which was followed by a general practice residency. After several years in general practice, he completed his post-graduate training at the University of Washington, where he received a certifi cate in Periodontology with a M.S.D. degree and a fellowship in Prosthodontics. He began his academic position at the University of Washington as assistant director of Graduate Periodontics and is currently an affi liate assistant professor. Dr. Janakievski is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry. He is a reviewer for several dental journals and has published in the area of interdisciplinary dentistry, dental implants and tooth autotransplantation. Dr. Janakievski teaches at Spear Education in Scottsdale Arizona. In addition, he participates in practice based clinical research through the McGuire Institute. He maintains a private practice in Tacoma, Washington.

Greggory A. Kinzer received his D.D.S. degree from the University of Washington in 1995, and an M.S.D. and certifi cate in Prosthodontics in 1998. Dr. Kinzer is a gifted academician and clinician who is committed to advancing the art and science of restorative dentistry. His interdisciplinary approach to dentistry is founded in empirical based research and clinical experience. Dr. Kinzer’s unique ability to impart complex clinical processes in a logical, systematic and clear methodology differentiates him from other dental educators of his time. Dr. Kinzer is a highly respected nationally and internationally recognized speaker. He is full time faculty at Spear Education in Scottsdale AZ, considered the world leader in continuing dental education, where he serves as Faculty Chair and Director of Curriculum and Campus Education. He is also an Affi liate Assistant Professor in the Graduate Prosthodontics program at the University of Washington School of Dentistry. Dr. Kinzer is a member of the prestigious American Academy of Restorative Dentistry and the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry, where he also serves on the Executive Council. Dr. Kinzer is a founding member of PROSEC North America. He has been the recipient of the American College of Prosthodontics Achievement Award as well as the Saul Schluger Award for Clinical Excellence in Diagnosis and Treatment Planning. In addition, he has written numerous articles and chapters for and serves on the editorial review board for various dental publications. He has a private practice in Seattle, WA with his wife, Dr. Jill Kinzer.

He graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Charles University in Prague in 1980. In 1983 he passed the first specialisation exam in dentistry, and in 1988 the specialisation exam in orthodontics. From 1980 to 1987, he worked at the I. Dental Clinic of the Faculty of General Medicine of Charles University and the 2nd Faculty Hospital in Prague, in 1987–1993 at the District Institute of National Health in Prague 5 (later the JZM Health Facility). Since 1994 he has been running a private orthodontic practice in Prague 2. Since 2000 he has been working as an external teacher at the orthodontic department of the Faculty of Dentistry of the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University and the General University Hospital in Prague. He has published numerous professional and popular scientific articles in the fi eld of orthodontics. He has lectured and conducted professional courses in the Czech Republic and abroad. His main expertise is the cooperation between orthodontist and maxillofacial surgeon in the treatment of patients with skeletal defects. Mr. Petr, M.D. worked since 1990 as a member of the committee of the Czech Orthodontic Society, in 2004–2016 as its chairman. As president he chaired two congresses of the Czech Orthodontic Society. He is a member of the European Orthodontic Society and the World Orthodontic Association. Until 2016 he was a member of the Scientific Council of the Czech Dental Chamber and serves as an expert of the Czech Dental Society for the fi eld of orthodontics. He is a guarantee of specialisation training in the field of orthodontics in Prague and vice-chairman of the Specialisation Board for this field.

After graduation (2003) he worked as a dentist at the Prague Dental Implant Centre. In 2010, he co-founded 3DK Dental Clinic with Dr. Tomeč ek. He focuses predominantly on periodontology, implantology and complex dental treatment. As a long time member and past-president of the Czech Academy of Dental Aesthetics, he works on the development of interdisciplinary treatment with orthodontists and other specialists. He has translated several textbooks and has authored his own publications, as well as presented numerous lectures in eriodontology, implantology, plastic periodontal surgery, transplantation of teeth etc. He has lectured in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, the UK and Switzerland.

After graduation (2002) he worked in the private dental practices in Prague and Dubai (UAE). In 2010 he cofounded the private dental practice 3DK Dental Clinic. In his professional live he is focused mostly to implantology, aesthetic and prosthetic dentistry. During the year 2016 he passed Regenerator Program by Dr. Istvan Urban (Urban regeneration institute & Szeged University, Budapest, HU). With a huge devotion, he is interested to dental photography, light and material interactions. He is a member of Czech academy of dental aesthetics. During his career, he provided many lectures and practical courses on topics of bone augmentation techniques in dental implantology, soft tissue management in implantology and prosthetics, dental photography and others, given namely in Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Switzerland (University of Geneva), Portugal, Italy, South Korea, UAE.

Ivo Marek, M.D., Ph.D., graduated in dentistry from the Faculty of Medicine of Palacký University in Olomouc in 1990. In 1996 – 1999 he completed his postgraduate studies in orthodontics there. In 1999, he opened the STOMMA Private Dental Centre in Breclav, focusing on interdisciplinary dental care, especially on cooperation among an orthodontist, a periodontist and an implantologist. In 2008 he completed his PhD studies at the Faculty of Medicine of Palacký University in Olomouc. He continues to work as an assistant professor at the Department of Dentistry at the Faculty of Medicine of Palacký University in Olomouc and as an external teacher at the orthodontic department of the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the General University Hospital in Prague. He has published over 55 articles and delivered over 250 lectures in the Czech Republic and abroad. The Stomma Dental Centre has several Czech and international unique clinical procedures to its credit and is one of the three main centres of tooth autotransplantation in Europe. In the treatment of retinated teeth, unerupted teeth, multiple agenesis and other complex defects, this clinic is one of the world’s leading workplaces. It has also participated in most of the Czech research published in world orthodontic journals. In 2022, Dr. Marek was the president of the 3rd World Congress of Autotransplantation. Dr. Marek has been Vice President of the Czech Orthodontic Society for more than 10 years, a member of the European Orthodontic Society, the American Orthodontic Society, and the World Orthodontic Society for over 15 years. In 2007 he was appointed an honorary member of the Implantology Club of the Czech Republic for the development of cooperation between the fi elds of orthodontics and implantology. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Orthodoncie, the accreditation committee of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, a representative of the Czech Orthodontic Society in EFOSA (European Association of Orthodontic Societies) and a reviewer of the journal Ortodoncie and Angle Orthodontics, EJO, Journal of Aligner Orthodontics. He was appointed International Ambassador of the American Orthodontic Society in 2014 and served on the European Orthodontic Council from 2016-2021 and is currently a member of the EFOSA Council.

Dr. Novosad graduated in dentistry from the Faculty of Medicine of Palacký University in Olomouc in 2011. From 2011 to 2012 he was employed as a Senior House Offi cer at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and at Eastbourne District General Hospital in the UK in the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery. Since 2012 he has been employed at the private dental clinic STOMMA s.r.o. in Břeclav as a dentist specializing in dentoalveolar surgery and implantology. He is a co-author of several articles. He has given over 30 lectures in the Czech Republic and abroad. He is the author of courses dealing with autotransplantation of teeth and the co-author of courses on the topic of cooperation between an orthodontist and a dentoalveolar surgeon. He is a certifi ed member of the Czech Academy of Dental Aesthetics and a member of the Czech Stomato-surgical Society, ITI and Implantology Club of the Czech Republic.

In 2014 he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Palacký University in Olomouc. In the last year of his studies he completed a study stay at the Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam (ACTA), then joined the STOMMA clinic in Mikulov, where he still works today. He mainly deals with endodontics and prosthetic phase of treatment in complex cases solved in cooperation with an orthodontist and an implantologist. He is a graduate of the IPSE endodontic specialisation programme, one of the certifi ed members of the Czech Academy of Dental Aesthetics and a member of the ITI (International Team for Implantology). He is an author and a co-author of numerous lectures, courses and professional articles on the topic of non-cariogenic dental defects and interdisciplinary cooperation.

Graduated in dentistry at Masaryk University in Brno in 2005, where he continued as a an Assistant at the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics at St. Anne’s University Hospital in Brno (2005-2007) and later as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cariology and Endodontics Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2007-2014). Since 2007 he works in private practice in Sorriso Dental Clinic in Brno (Czech Republic). He defended a doctorate thesis (Dr. Med. Dent.) at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) in 2016 and also a Ph.D. thesis at the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) in Amsterdam (Netherlands) in 2017, both universities that are among the top 30 in the world according to the QS World University Rankings 2022 (2nd Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 30th University of Geneva), author of 10 impacted publications on adhesive dentistry with 250 citations in articles with IF. Lectures at universities in Geneva, Amsterdam and Barcelona. Lecturer in the postgraduate training program: Master of Aesthetic and Microinvasive dentistry – University of Geneva. Certifi ed CADE member – lecturer of the CADE Curricula, member of the Scientifi c Council of the Czech Chamber of Dentistry.

He graduated in dentistry from the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University in Brno in 2005. He completed his training in orthodontics at the St. Anne’s University Hospital in Brno where he worked as an assistant professor from 2005 to 2010. In 2006 he underwent a clerkship at the department orthodontics and maxillofacial surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada. In 2010 he passed the specialisation exam in orthodontics with the topic of his thesis: Cone Beam CTanalysis of suitable locations for the insertion of anchorage mini-implants. His lecture on this topic also won the prize for the best postgraduate lecture at the Congress of the Czech Orthodontic Society in 2010 in Brno. Since this year he has been working as an orthodontist in the private dental clinic Sorriso in Brno. In 2013 he defended his Ph.D. degree with the topic Implants in orthodontics. He is a member of the Czech Orthodontic Society, a member of the American Orthodontic Society and the World Orthodontic Society. He is a certifi ed member of the Czech Academy of Dental Aesthetics.

Radkin Honzák, M.D., CSc. born under the sign of Aries before the outbreak of the World War (the second one). He graduated from the Faculty of General Medicine in Prague, where he made a lifelong commitment to psychiatry from his fourth year. He graduated in 1962. After four years of practice at the Psychiatric Hospital in Kosmonosy he joined the Institute of Nutrition in Prague Krč as a psychiatric consultant. In the seventies, integration into IKEM and inclusion in the dialysis-transplantation program began, which really made sense. After 1989, he was invited to the 1st Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University where for 10 years he headed a separate department of medical psychology, psychotherapy and psychosomatics. After 40 years, he returned to the psychiatric hospital, where he worked until 2019. Now as an outpatient physician at IKEM and Remedis on a reasonably part-time basis. The author of more than ten popular science books, of which the joint work with his brother-historian “Personalities Amazing and Broken” is considered one of the best.

Dr. Krugová earned her degree at the Dental School of First Faculty of Medicine at Charles’ University in Prague in 2002. She worked as a general dentist in her private offi ce from 2002 to 2008. Since 2008, she has become a team member in the private clinic (Center of dental implantology). Since 2015, she has been teaching as an external assistant at the Department of Prosthodontics, Dental School, Charles’ University. She has attended many courses abroad, among others at the University of Bern, Chieti-Pescara, Madrid, Genoa, Malmö and Geneva. She has also lectured extensively on the topic of dental esthetics, prosthetic dentistry on teeth and implants, and digital technology in dentistry. She has been an ITI member since 2012 and she became the ITI director of the fi rst Female ITI Study Club in the Czechia. Dr. Krugová is a certifi ed member of Czech Academy of Dental Esthetics and in 2021 was awarded by this academy with a prize for best Presented Reconstruciton. She is an author and co-author of 4 book chapters and brochures.

(born in 1966) graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Hradec Králové, majoring in dentistry and general medicine. From 1992 to 2003 he worked as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Since 2003 he has been working as a surgeon at the private Centre of Dental Implantology. He is an ITI fellow and since 2012 he has been the main organizer of the ITI Study Club Prague. He is a certifi ed member of the Czech Academy of Dental Esthetics (CZADE).

He graduated in Dentistry at the Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Hradec Králové in 1993 and in General Medicine at the same faculty in 1998. He has been working in the fi eld of oral, maxillofacial and facial surgery since 1995. He has completed traineeships both domestically and abroad, mainly at the Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Clinic in Zurich, Switzerland, and at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, England. In 2006 he also passe the International Professional Specialisation Examination (European Association of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery named: Fellow of European Board of Oro- Maxillofacial Surgery). He is also diligently engaged in research, as evidenced by successfully defended grants at the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic and the volume and quality of his publications with many articles in major international journals and chapters in textbooks. His lecturing activity is also extensive not only in the Czech Republic but also abroad. He is actively involved in undergraduate teaching of both dentistry and general medicine at the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. He is also involved in postgraduate teaching in oral, maxillofacial and facial surgery at Charles University and the Institute for Further Education of Physicians and Pharmacists. in 2006 he defended his Ph.D., in 2011 he was habilitated as Associate Professor, in 2017 he was appointed Professor at the 1st Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in Prague, where he also serves as Vice Dean. Since 2014, he has been the head of the Dental Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Dentistry of the Charles University and the University Hospital. Since 2016 he has also been the President of the Czech Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the Czech Medical Society of Jan Evangelista Purkyně.