Deputy Director, Chief Senior Physician
University of Frankfurt, Department of Cranio-Oral and Maxillofacial and Facial Plastic Surgery
Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
Shahram Ghanaati
Prof. Shahram Ghanaati is a specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery with additional designation of plastic operations, and has a triple doctorate in medicine, dentistry and science (MD, DMD, PhD) from the German universities Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. From 2007 to 2013, he successfully completed his residency at the Clinic of Oral, Cranio-Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. In 2013, he achieved the degree of Specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Today, he leads the Head and Neck Oncology section at the University Cancer Center, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt and is an Associate Professor at the Clinic of Oral, Cranio-Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery and a faculty member at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. In 2016, he achieved the degree of Specialist in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery with additional designation of plastic operations and was appointed as the Chief Senior Physician. In 2017 he was appointed as Deputy Director of the Clinic. In 2018 he became Fellow of European Board of Oral- and Maxillo-Facial Surgeons (FEBOMFS). Prof. Since more then 20 years, beginning with his doctoral thesis at the Institute for Pathology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, he has extensively studied the inflammatory pattern and regeneration capacity of biomaterials with respect to different physicochemical properties. First in Mainz, where he in 2005 founded the Repair-Lab in vivo, and later at the University Clinics in Frankfurt/Main, where in 2009 he founded the FORM-Lab (Frankfurt Orofacial Regenerative Medicine), the research laboratory of the Clinic of Oral, Cranio-Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt. In FORM-Lab, he leads a working group of scientists and clinicians, who perform basic science and clinical studies focusing on understanding the biomaterial-based regeneration process and aspects of vascularization in management of soft and bone tissue regeneration. In 2010, he developed advanced preparation protocols of platelet rich fibrin (PRF) together with Dr. Joseph Choukroun, the founder of PRF. In 2016, Prof. Ghanaati and his team established the so-called LSCC (Low Speed Centrifugation Concept) for PRF-derived blood concentrates to gain a highly bioactive autologous drug delivery system. This development led to the establishment of an AWMF S3-guideline for use of PRF in oral dentistry.
Today Prof. Ghanaati’s research focuses on understanding atrophic pathologies and on the optimization of tissue regeneration. An important part is the intensive research on establishing novel surgical methods called Guided Open Wound Healing for biomaterial-based tissue augmentation in preparation for implant-based functional restoration.
Prof. Ghanaati has presented more than 150 lectures at national and international congresses and has given more than 200 courses and workshops on GTR & GBR in implantology as well as on regenerative concepts and blood concentrates. He has published more than 170 peer-reviewed publications, with a respective H-Index of 40 and a cumulative impact factor exceeding 650, in the field of regenerative and reconstructive medicine and research covering the translational research chain from basic in vitro research, to animal research, and finally in clinical studies and trials.
G03 - Titanium vs. Zirconia Implants
Saturday, December 7, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
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