Jelena Dumančić is a full professor and a specialist in Family Dentistry at the Department of Dental Anthropology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb, where she graduated and has worked since 1996. Her master's thesis and dissertation research focused on the influence of the X chromosome on dental and craniofacial development in Turner and Klinefelter syndromes. She teaches Tooth Morphology with Dental Anthropology, Forensic Dentistry, History of Dental Medicine, Social Medicine and Epidemiology, and Ethics. She has published numerous scientific papers, 15 of which are indexed in Current Contents, and co-authored six university textbooks, two monographs, two manuals, and a dictionary. She has edited educational material on oral health adapted for blind and visually impaired people. Currently, she is the head of the project "Analysis of teeth and jaws: anthropological and forensic aspects" with the support of the University of Zagreb and a collaborator on the project of the Croatian Science Foundation "Tooth analysis in forensic and archaeological research". From 2014 to 2018, she was the leader of the Project for Oral Health Promotion in Blind and Visually Impaired Persons. She has been lecturing in continuing education courses in Forensic Dentistry since 2000 and leading courses in Family Dentistry since 2013. She is active in oral health promotion, especially for children and people with disabilities.