Paweł Plakwicz, PhD, DDS, MFDSRCS 

Specialist in Oral Surgery

Professor, Department of Periodontology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

Adjunct Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US

Prof. Plakwicz graduated from the Dental Faculty, Medical University of Warsaw. He was an assistant lecturer at the Department of Oral Surgery at the same university. He completed postgraduate training in autotransplantation of teeth at the University of Oslo, Norway in 2000. In 1996, he established a private practice in Warsaw, focused on the oral and periodontal surgery. In 2001, he qualified as a specialist in Oral Surgery and in 2009 defended his PhD. Since 2009 he has worked at the Department of Periodontology, Medical University of Warsaw. In 2015 he gained his PhD with habilitation. In 2017 he received his MFDS ad eundem from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 2023 he became a full professor.

His main research interests are in the treatment of growing patients with missing teeth, eruption disturbances, teeth autotransplantation and treatment of mucogingival deformities. During the last decade, he authored and co-authored over 60 scientific articles and chapters in the books. He has performed and followed-up more than 700 of autotransplantated teeth. Prof. Plakwicz lectures and conducts courses nationally and internationally in Europe, Africa and in the United States (where he was appointed Adjunct Professor at the UNC in Chapel Hill, NC in 2019).