Dr. Ikuya Miyamoto received his D.D.S. degree in 1997 from Tohoku University, School of Dentistry, and a Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine. He was a visiting researcher at the Department of Biomaterials, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, from 1998 to 2000. Since 2018 he has been a professor in the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Iwate Medical University.