SKANDER ELLOUZE ACDEMY (SEA)

Dr Ellouze’s In-Office course is an educational two-day program focusing on the use of TADs in modern Orthodontics. This Course is a unique opportunity to master the latest treatment protocols methods That combine TADs with Aligners, and PSL.

RESEARCHER AND AUTHOR Dr

Skander Ellouze has contributed throughout the years to the orthodontics literature through publishing several books and articles. His Text Book ‘’ Mini-Implants: Orthodontics for the future’’ (Quintessence International inFrench ; English , Russian, … ) is a reference book in the field of Skeletal Anchorage.

Dr Skander Ellouze has contributed many years as a Visiting Professor in the master in lingual Orthodontics at the Universities Of Valencia and Oviedo (Spain) , and as an associate Professor in the department of orthodontics at the University of Bordeaux 2.

He is continuously contributing with different R&D departments of leading world companies at the development and improvement of new appliances for more simplified and efficient treatments concepts, to give to every single patient the best possible outcome.

Dr SKANDER ELLOUZE ORTHODONTICS

Dr Skander Ellouze has received his Degree in Dental Surgery from the Faculty of Monastir (TUNISIA) and completed his Post-Graduate Certification in Orthodontics at the University of Bordeaux (C.E.C.S.M.O – France) and has been Post-Graduated in Lingual Orthodontics at the University of Paris V.

Since 1992, He runs a private practice in Tunis (Tunisia) that specialises in the use of advanced technologies such as Passive self-ligation, lingual orthodontic, and clear aligners, and the use of cutting edge technologies such as CT SCAN, intra oral scan, 3D printing, and other digital imaging to produce aesthetic and efficient customized solutions for his patients.

Professional activity exclusively to Aesthetic Orthodontics, with special interest in Lingual Orthodontics and Aligners.

Dr Scuzzo has spoken and published in Italy and abroad on Lingual Orthodontics, Aligners and Hybrid Techniques.

• Adjunct Professor in Digital Orthodontics at the Postgraduate in Orthodontics, University of Ferrara (Italy)
• Adjunct Professor in Lingual Orthodontics at the Postgraduate in Orthodontics, University of Ferrara (Italy)
• Adjunct Professor in Lingual Orthodontics at the Master in Orthodontics, University of Salamanca (Spain)
• Adjunct Professor in Lingual Orthodontics at the Postgraduate in Orthodontics, University of Turin (Italy)
• Clinical Instructor in Lingual Orthodontics at the Master in Lingual Orthodontics of the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)

Dr. Scuzzo is President of the Italian Society of Lingual Orthodontics (AIOL)

• Active Member of the World Society of Lingual Orthodontics (WSLO)
• Active Member of the Italian Lingual Orthodontics Society (AIOL)
• Member of the Italian Academy of Orthodontics (AIDOR)

Official Speaker for AngelAligner

Dr. D’Antò is member of IADR, EOS, AAO, WFO and SIDO, and the Past President of the Italian Society for Biomechanics (SIBOS). He authored many papers and has given oral presentations in more than 20 countries and at the international congresses of EOS, AAO, IADR, SIDO, EAS, DGAO, SFOPA, SiAlign, NVvO, HOD. Dr. D’Antò received the Robert Frank Award (2004, 2005, 2009) and the Hatton Award (2006) of IADR, the SIDO award (2007, 2010, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023), the EOS Houston Award (2012) and the Tiziano Baccetti Award (2016).

He has worked as Clinical Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Orthodontics of the University of Aarhus from 2005 to 2007. He has been the scientific director of the Alpe Adria Face Master held at the University of Graz, Ljubljana and Zagreb in 2012-2013.

He has been consultant orthodontist at the department of maxillo-facial surgery of the hospital of Sønderborg (Denmark) from 2008 to 2009 and the university hospital of Odense (Denmark) from 2008 to 2017.

He is currently in private practice in Switzerland and serves as advisor for orthodontic industry.

Dr Troiani has held more than 150 orthodontic lectures and courses worldwide.

He completed his doctoral thesis in Ohio and was the first Spanish man to receive the Houston Award from the European Orthodontic Society for research work focused on the movement thatoccurs in the teeth after placing an orthodontic appliance. Dr. Pérez Varela has achieved clinical accreditation, both nationally and internationally: Spanish Board of Orthodontics (Diplomat Member of the Spanish Society of Orthodontics. St. Sebastian, 2000), European Orthodontics Board (European Society of Orthodontics. Helsinki, 2009) and Latin American Board of Orthodontics (Board of Iberamerican Orthodontic Society. Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 2010). Since 2008 he has been a member of the prestigious Angle Society of Europe, Göing. Austria.

He was president of the V Meeting of the Spanish Association of Specialists in Orthodontics (Madrid, 2000). He also chaired the 49th Meeting of the Spanish Society of Orthodontics (James 2003). In 2007, he was awarded the Moriyón prize granted by the Spanish Society of Orthodontics and was nominated in Madrid, President of the Spanish Association of Specialists in Orthodontics (AESOR). In 2010, he was awarded the Jose Antonio Canut prize during the Congress of the Spanish Society of Orthodontics held in Murcia. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals “Spanish Orthodontics” and “Clinical Orthodontics”.

Currently Dr. Pérez Varela is Professor of Orthodontics at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Santiago, Master Visiting Professor of Orthodontics at the University of Santiago, Valencia, Oviedo, Catalonia International, Sevilla and co-director of Advanced Training in Orthodontics courses (SWOT). He is the author of numerous publications, book chapters, as well as nationally and internationally dictated courses and lectures. Dr. Pérez Varela´s orthodontist practice is unique in its sector and has clinics in the cities of Santiago de Compostela and Ourense.

• Since 2007 lecturer and since 2022 Associate Professor in the Clinic of Orthodontics at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
• 2022 – 2023 researcher in the project analyzing radiographic (CBCT) alveolar bone changes during orthodontic treatment (Department of Maxillofacial Radiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Odontology, Gothenburg University, Sweden). 
• 2024 – supervisor of doctoral student (Department of Maxillofacial Radiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Odontology, Gothenburg University, Sweden)
• Active researcher, where research interests include clinical and radiographic (CBCT) changes of orthodontic treatment in subjects with periodontal disease and gingival recessions. Has published a number of scientific articles on the topic and presented oral presentations in European Orthodontic Society meetings also seminars for postgraduate students and continuing dental education both in Lithuania and Sweden
• For more than 10 years works in a private practice with a team treating adult patients and patients with periodontal disease and thin gingival biotype. Since 2021 owns private practice, where works with a multidisciplinary team

He also serves on the board of the German working group for craniomandibular and musculoskeletal medicine. His research interests include the application of 3D imaging in orthodontics and is also focused on craniomandibular and musculoskeletal medicine. Clinically, Dr. Chhatwani employs a functionally oriented treatment methodology, which is executed with fixed appliances or aligners. His work was recently recognized with a research award in the field of interdisciplinary treatment at the annual congress of the German Orthodontic Society.

• 2001 – 2006 – Study of Dentistry
• 2006 – 2008 – Dentist and Oral surgery resident
• 2008 – 2011 – Orthodontic resident (among others University of Giessen, Germany)
• 2012 – 2021 – employed Orthodontist in private clinics
• Since 2016 – Senior Orthodontist at University of Witten/Herdecke (Head: Prof. Dr. Gholamreza Danesh)
• Since 2021 – Partner in private orthodontic practice, Lüdenscheid, Germany

• 2009 German certification as specialised Orthodontist
• 2006-2009 Postgraduate Student, Department of Orthodontics, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2005-2006 Scientific Assistant, Department of conservative dentistry, University of Münster, Germany
• 2005 Doctoral thesis (animal study regarding Osseointegration of dental implants)
• 1999-2005 Dental School, University of Münster, Germany

Author of over 60 publications, over 90 national and international lectures and author of 35 scientific poster, reviewer of 8 scientific journals, member of the editorial board of “Kieferorthopädie” (Quintessenz), co-editor of “Informationen aus Orthodontie und Kieferorthopädie” (Thieme)

Awards:

• Twice awarded by the German Orthodontic society (Best research out of private practice; best Poster award)
• 2022 Advancement Award of the German Aligner Society
• 2023 Elite Grants Award of the International Orthodontics Foundation

Scientific interests: skeletal anchorage and biomechanics

Past-President of the Italian Society of Aligners (SIALIGN), provisional member of Angle Society of Europe (ASE), active member of SIDO, EOS, SIBOS, AIDOr and ASIO. Member of the IBO examining committee in 2013, 2015 and 2017, and of the SIDO Model Display examining committee in 2014. Certificated for the Incognito lingual technique in 2009, from 2012 he is Clinical Professor at the Incognito Master in Naples. In 2017 he attained the Master degree in Lingual Orthodontics and in 2020 in Temporo-Mandibular Disorders. Exclusivist in orthodontics, his main clinical and research interest are focused on the characteristics of treating adult patients, temporary anchorage devices (TADs) and the relationship between occlusion and temporo-mandibular disorders. Referee of several national and international journals, he has been author of book chapters and numerous publications in national and international journals, as well as speaker in international congresses and university masters.

Dalia Latkauskienė is an international speaker. She has presented lectures, seminars and continuing education courses on crowned Herbst appliance, mixed dentition treatment, aligner treatment, adult orthodontics, multidisciplinary treatment and combined orhodontic-orthognatic treatment (together with maxillo-facial surgon S. Grybauskas DDS, MD, Phd) to dental and orthodontic organizations as well as conferences mostly in European Union, Russia and some other Eastern European countries. Dalia Latkauskienė has held in-office courses for local and foreign participants on the topics listed above.
She is author and co-author of several papers in international peer-reviewed journals.
Dalia Latkauskienė is a president of Lithuanian orthodontic society since 2021. She is a board member of European Aligner Society since 2022.
Since 2002, Dalia Latkauskienė has been in full-time private practice. Currently she is practising in orthodontic center in Kaunas.

Present position of Dr Simonas Grybauskas is Doctor oral and maxillofacial surgeon at “S’OS Simonas Grybauskas’ Orthognathic Surgery” and private Vilnius Kardiolita Hospital.

Dr Simonas Grybauskas has published or co-authored more than 5 scientific articles and has delivered more than 200 lectures on orthognathic and reconstructive surgery in international conferences and courses.

Dr Grybauskas is a member of the Lithuanian Association of Maxillofacial Surgery as of 2002, a member of the Baltic Association of Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery since 2002 and a member of the European Association for Cranio–Maxillofacial Surgery starting from 2005. Dr Simonas Grybauskas hosted and directed two major Baltic Sea conferences on orthognathic surgery and orthodontics in Vilnius (2009) and Riga (2015) and organized seven training courses on orthognathic surgery and orthodontics.

Dr Grybauskas devotes most of his time to orthognathic and reconstructive surgery, maxillofacial traumatology and implantology. Differences in facial morphology among populations and their influence on planning of facial surgery is the scope of his scientific work.