Dr. Masae Furukawa graduated from Tokyo Dental College. Ph.D. (major: prosthodontics) in Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Hiroshima University. She assumed a visiting assistant professorship at Mahasaraswati University, Indonesia. She started to work in the Division of Aesthetic Dentistry and Clinical Cariology, Department of Conservative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Showa University, Tokyo. After her experience at Showa University, she was in Germany. She was a guest researcher at the Department of Dental Materials at Cologne University, Germany. She has numerous awards from the Asian Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry and South Asia Aesthetic Dentistry. Currently, she is a researcher at the Department of Oral Disease Research, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Aichi.