Hendrik Terheyden

Professor Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Hendrik Terheyden is Oral & Maxillofacial surgeon and chairman of the department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the Red Cross Hospital, Kassel, Germany. After a dental and medical education at the university of Kiel he specialized in oral and maxillofacial surgery and plastic operations at the university hospital of Kiel, where he worked until 2007 as vice director and still holds a teaching position. His academic teachers were Prof. Dr. Dr. F. Härle and Prof. Dr. Dr. J. Wiltfang.

He published >200 scientific papers and his clinical and scientific focuses are bone regeneration in dental implant and preprosthetic surgery as well as reconstructive surgery after tumor ablation and trauma. In 1999 he published his PhD thesis (Habilitation) on prefabrication of bone flaps with recombinant bone morphogenetic proteins. Prof. Terheyden was president and past president of the German Association of Dental Implantology (DGI) from 2010-2015. Currently he is vice chairman of the national Association of Maxillofacial Surgeons (AGKi). He is editor in chief at the International Journal of Implant Dentistry and section editor for oral implantology at the International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.