Bonding and 3D technology in Orthodontics

 He has coauthored 380 papers and chapters and edited 14 books; this work has received over 20,000 citations (h index 78-scholar). He has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics (first dentist holding both Fellowships), the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining (UK), and FDS of the Royal College of Surgeons (Ed). His past affiliations include visiting professorships at King’s College London and the University of Adelaide, and an adjunct professorship at Boston University. He has as taught his orthodontic biomaterials course to 23 postgraduate orthodontic programs in 14 countries and was the recipient of the 2024 EOS distinguished teacher award. He is the elected Editor of the European Journal of Orthodontics.

Vaska Vandevska-Radunovic received her DMD and MSc in orthodontics at the University “Kiril iMetodij” in Skopje. She continued her orthodontic training at the University of Bergen, Norway 1990-1992, where she obtained her PhD (doctor odont) in 1998. She is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Orthodontics, University of Oslo, Norway and is involved in the education and research activity of graduate, post-graduate and doctoral students. For six years she was a member of the Continuing education committee of the Norwegian Association of Orthodontists. She is President of the EOS in 2023 and Secretary of the NEBEOP Board. She is Associate Editor of Clinical and Experimental Dental Research and The Korean Journal of Orthodontics. She is also member of the Editorial board of the World Journal of Orthodontics and Acta Odontologica Scandinavica. Her main areas of interest are tissue reactions during orthodontic tooth movement and relapse, retention procedures and long-term outcome of orthodontic treatment and the effect of orthodontic treatment on periodontal health.

Nearchos C. Panayi is an orthodontist based in Limassol, Cyprus. He is a scientific collaborator at the European University Cyprus, Dental school and a visiting Research Scientist at the Clinic of Orthodontics, Center of Dental Medicine, University of Zurich, in Switzerland. He studied dentistry at Athens Dental School (1992–1997) and orthodontics at Tel Aviv University (1998–2001) before building his private practice, which has grown into two fully digital orthodontic offices in Limassol and Larnaca, Cyprus. His passion for digital technology encouraged him to use it in orthodontics, and as a huge fan of the in-house 3D designing and printing concept in orthodontics, Dr Panayi has helped develop concepts, ideas, and methods that will transform traditional orthodontics to customized-centered digital orthodontics. He is the inventor of the orthodontic CAD software Ubrackets for in-house designing of customized fixed orthodontic appliances, and he introduced the use of general-purpose CAD software in orthodontics for orthodontic appliance design. He is the editor of «DIY, Design It Yourself Orthodontics» book that was released by Quintessence USA in July 2021. He is a co-author in other orthodontics books and published articles on in –house customized brackets, printed aligners and bracket material research. He is an associate editor of the “Progress in Orthodontics” journal.

In 2021 he received his Habilitation (Venia Legendi) and in 2022 a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Orthognathic Surgery – both from University of Zurich, while he completed a MSc on Medical Research Methodology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has published over 170 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and over 10 chapters (4500 citations), acts as a reviewer (>30 journals), academic editor (3 journals), statistical advisor (1 journal), (co-)supervisor / examiner over 10 theses/dissertations for 4 universities. He worked on basic science, clinical trials, and evidence-based research funded by the German Research Foundation (2013), the Greek & German State Scholarship Foundations (2015), and the European Orthodontic Society (2016). His work has received multiple awards, including the David L. Turpin Award for Evidence-Based Research (2012) and the B.F. and Helen E. Dewel Award for Clinical Research (2018) from the American Association of Orthodontists, the W.J.B. Houston Award (2017) from the European Orthodontic Society, the Chapman Prize (2018) from the British Orthodontic Society, and the Best Research Award (2015) from the Greek Orthodontic Society. He has been invited to participate in consensus-meetings for the development of clinical recommendations from the European Academy of Osseointegration (2018), the Osteology Foundation (2022), and the European Federation for Periodontology (2022). His research focuses on the clinical outcome, duration, or side-effects of orthodontic treatment, evidence-based methods including randomized trials and meta-analysis, methods to identify bias in orthodontic clinical research, open / transparent research practices, and the effect of systematic diseases on the biology of orthodontic tooth movement.