Prof. Dr. Tolga Fikret Tozum received his Ph.D. in Health Sciences, with a focus on bone metabolism, from Hacettepe University and the University of Michigan in 2002. He completed his clinical specialization in Periodontology at Hacettepe University in 2002. In 2017, he obtained a Certificate in Advanced Education in Periodontics from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), and in 2020, he completed hypnotherapy training at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute. He is a Professor in the Department of Periodontics at UIC and holds adjunct positions at Near East University in Cyprus, Lokman Hekim University in Turkey, and serves on the Advisory Board and Teaching Committee of the Ph.D. program in Bio-Engineering Applied to Medical Sciences at the University of Messina, Italy. Prof. Tozum serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, including Clinical Oral Implants Research, Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research, Implant Dentistry, and the International Journal of Oral Implantology. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and authored or translated 14 book chapters in clinical periodontology, bone grafting, and implant dentistry. He has delivered more than 100 lectures at national and international conferences and has been active in clinical practice in advanced periodontics and implant surgery for over twenty years.