Prof. Dr. Vasilica Toma is a Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics specialist, currently the head of discipline and professor of Pediatric Dentistry at the Faculty of Dentistry at the “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania. She earned her DDS (1995) and a PhD in Dental Sciences (2004) from the same institution. Prof. Toma has over thirty years of experience in clinical restorative practice and teaching, and her work includes overseeing patient care and mentoring postgraduate students and residents. Her primary research interests address oral health state in children and adolescents with intellectual and medical disabilities, periodontal disease in pediatric dentistry, consequences of premature loss of primary teeth, and possibilities of auto-transplantation in young permanent teeth. She has previously investigated the correlation of gingival crevicular fluid with different oral conditions in the context of various systemic diseases (diabetes mellitus, celiac disease, renal disease, leukemia, Down syndrome). She is vice president of the National Association of Pediatric Dentistry in Romania and a member of the European Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (EAPD).