Gianfranco Favia

Born in 1956, medical degree in 1980; ph D (3 yrs)in Odontostomatology (1983), ph D (4 yrs)in Anatomical and Histological Pathology (1987), phD (5 yrs) in General Surgery (1995). All these steps had been reached with maximum score plus laudatio in the University of Bari (Italy). - University career (always in the University of Bari (Italy) University researcher from 1984 until 2001 and then associate professor from 2002 to 2004; from 2005 at the present time, full ordinary professor, in the scientific sector of Odontostomatological Diseases ( MED 28) in the University of Bari (Italy) - Teaching fields: oral and maxillo-facial paediatric and adult pathology, oral and maxillo-facial paediatric and adult surgery, clinical management of oro-facial diseases and traumatology, diagnosis and therapy of rare diseases Dean of the Dental school of the University of Bari for six years from 2003 to 2008 From 2002 to the actual times prof Favia is the Head of the Complex Unit of Oro-Facial and Dental Surgery at the University Hospital "Policlinico" in Bari (Italy); in this rule in the last 10 years prof Favia operated as first surgeon more than 5000 patients. - Degree in Archaelogical sciences in 2010 - Scientific Publications: Author of more than 5 hundred scientific pubblications reported in a wide spectrum of specialistic international journals, with an heavy impact factor over 300, in the fields of oro-facial oncology, adult and paediatric pathology, molecular biology, reconstructive and regenerative surgery and new materials (jaluronic acid and amiinoacids in gel), dental implant and laser surgery in oncological, and in paediatric patients with vascular pathology. - Scientific associations: IAOP (Int Ass Oral Pathology), EAOM (Eur Ass Oral Medicine), SIPMO (Italian Ass Oral Medicine and Pathology, SIOI (Italian Society of Paediatric Dentistry)