Plenary 3: Lars Andersson – Treatment Options in the Growing Patient

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Treatment Options in the Growing Patient with Loss of Maxillary Anterior Teeth Due to Trauma

Dr Andersson completed undergraduate and research training at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Subsequently he became a Specialist in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in 1981. He defended his doctoral thesis in 1988 on experimental and clinical studies on root resorption after replantation of teeth. He was appointed Docent at the Karolinska Institute in 1990. In the 1990s he chaired a national specialist training program in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in Sweden. As a “member” of the first generation of implant surgeons, he also directed an international implant training program.

Since 2002 he has been a Professor in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Kuwait University in Kuwait City, Kuwait. He has published extensively in the field of traumatology. Dr Andersson has been textbook editor and chapter author in the fields of both trauma and oral & maxillofacial surgery. He was Editor in Chief of the internationally renowned scientific journal, Dental Traumatology from 2007 to 2015, and is the Immediate Past President of the International Association of Dental Traumatology.