Gaetano Isola is an Assistant Professor of Oral Surgery and Periodontology, School of Dentistry, at the University of Catania, Italy. He completed his Ph.D. in Physiopathology of the Stomatognathic Apparatus and Dental Materials at the University of Turin, Turin, Italy. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Laboratory of the Study of Calcified Tissues and Biomaterials, Department of Periodontology, Université de Montréal, Canada and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Periodontology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA and a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Implantology and Oral Surgery at the University of Bern, Switzerland and at the Department of Periodontology of the Eastman Dental Institute, London. He is also an active member of the Italian Society of Oral Surgery (SIdCO) of the International Piezoelectric Surgery Academy (IPA), the Board of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR), and member of the Italian Society of Periodontology (SIdP). His research interests include the clinical and pharmacological aspects of periodontitis and on the relationship between oral health and systemic health.