Kenta Haga is a surgeon at the Tsuruoka Municipal Shonai Hospital. He graduated from the Niigata University Dental School (D.D.S.) in 2015 and received his Ph.D. from the Postgraduate School of Niigata University in 2021. He works in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. His current research interest is investigation of the effect of the SOX9/TGF-b axis on oral cancer progression/invasion. He is a member of the Japanese Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.