Daniel Ostaș, MD, DMD, PhD is a specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He graduated in Dentistry (2012) and Medicine (2017) from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Haţieganu”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and obtained his PhD in Medicine in 2023 with a thesis on patient-specific medical devices in cranio-maxillofacial surgery.He completed his residency at the Cluj County Emergency Clinical Hospital between 2012 and 2017 and continued as a specialist surgeon there until 2022. He served as a university teaching assistant in the Department of Oral and Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Haţieganu” between 2019 and 2023. With support from the AOCMF Foundation (Association for the Study of Internal Fixation), he completed a clinical fellowship at the University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. Since 2022, he has been practicing in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Medicover Hospital Cluj, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His research focuses on patient-specific implants, biomimetic implant design, virtual surgical planning, and point-of-care 3D printing for cranio-maxillofacial reconstruction, with expertise in trauma and oncologic cases. He is a member of the European Association for Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery (EACMFS), AOCMF, and International Team for Implantology (ITI).