Professor Dr. Petros Koidis

Title: The significance of “Time” in Prosthodontics

Abstract
“Time” is an extremely significant variable defining options and limits in Prosthodontics. It affects the decision-making process both by the dentist and the patient, as is related with a great number of factors and conditions, like the longevity and survival of treatment modalities and structures (crown, bridges, removable prostheses, vital and endodontic treated teeth, implants, tissues, periodontal or peri-implant tissues), the handling and behavior of materials in long-term and/or dynamic function (ageing, loading, destruction) in regular or special conditions, the safety of restorative stages on tissues which are in post-therapeutic phases (wound healing from extraction, completion of endo- or periodontal therapy, clinical crown lengthening, osseointegration), the recall protocols, the precision in several cases of diagnosis, the integrity and soundness of differential diagnosis even the esthetics.

Petros Koidis was born in Kozani, Greece in 1957 and he has been serving as Professor (2005) and Chairman (2008-2022) of the Laboratory of Prosthodontics and Director of several Programs in the field of Prosthodontics, the latest being of the Graduate Program “Dental and Craniofacial Bioengineering and Applied Biomaterials” (2018-2022), at the School of Dentistry in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), in Greece. He is a graduate (DDS, 1980) of AUTh, where he conducted also his PhD (1984) on Temporomandibular Disorders. He obtained in addition an M.S. degree (1987) at The Ohio State University (Columbus, USA), where he was trained and certified in Advanced Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics (1984-87). He has been Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Harvard University, Boston (1997), Visiting Professor at the School of Dentistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia (2007), Adjunct Professor, “Gr. T. Popa” Medicine and Pharmacy University, Faculty of Dental Medicine at Iasi, Romania (2009) and Adjunct Senior Scientist in Houston Center for Biomaterials and Biomimetics of The University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston (2011-Today). His research interests focus on the links of conventional prosthetic and implant rehabilitation, biomaterials, temporomandibular disorders and tissue engineering. He has been project leader and senior scientist in several funded research and operational projects and reviewer in major (35) international journals. He is a member of BaSS since the early beginning (1995) while for more than a decade (2001-2013) he served all the positions of the Executive Committee of BaSS. He has been mentoring 7 PhD and 30 MSc students, while his scientific work consists among others of more than 200 publications in peer review journals and over 315 presentations in meetings and conferences worldwide, for which he has been the recipient of several significant awards.

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