Daniel Buser

Prof. em. Dr. – Bern/Switzerland

Dr. Daniel Buser is one of the most experienced international implant surgeons with more than 35 years of surgical experience. He is one of the pioneers of micro-rough implant surfaces, such as the SLA surface, and of Guided Bone Regeneration (GBR) performing the first GBR surgery at the University of Bern in October 1988. He has been Professor of Oral Surgery at the University of Bern (2000-19). He also served as President of various academic associations including the EAO (1996/97), the Swiss Society of Implantology SSI (2001-03), and the ITI (2009-13). He received several scientific awards, among others the André Schroeder Research Prize by the ITI (1995), the Daniel M. Laskin Award (1996) by the AAOMS, the Honorary Membership by the AAP (1997), The Professor honoris causa by the University of Buenos Aires (2011), the Brånemark Osseointegration Award by the Osseointegration Foundation (2013), the Senator honoris causa by the University of Szeged (2014), the Jerome Schweitzer Research Award by the Greater New York Academy of Prosthodontics GNYAP (2014), the Honorary Fellowship by the ITI (2017), the Eskow Implant Dentistry Award by the New York University (2018), the Honorary Membership by the Swiss Society of Implantology SGI (2023), the Honorary Membership by the EAO (2024) and the Paul Goldhaber Award by the Harvard University in Boston (2024). With his team, he has been active in pre-clinical and clinical research in the field of implant surfaces, bone augmentation with GBR, bone grafts and bone substitutes, anatomical studies using CBCT, and the long-term stability of dental implants. He has authored and co-authored with his team more than 400 publications and book chapters in the field of implant dentistry, and he is one of the most cited authors in this field with an h-Index of 110 (Web of Science), respectively 135 (Google Scholar). He is also editor and main author of the GBR Book by Quintessence, which was published as 3rd edition in 2022. Today, he works part time in the private Centre for Implantology Buser & Frei in Bern, and he continues to perform implant surgeries. His main activity is Continuing Education. With his friend Anton Sculean, he has established in 2020 the Buser & Sculean Academy for Periodontology and Implant Dentistry. The mission is Global Knowledge Sharing with the young generation of implant specialists around the globe using a high-quality streaming technology. In addition, he continues to widely lecture at national and international conferences with the main topic «The 4 surgical Key Factors to achieve successful implants with good long-term stability». This includes the utilization of implants with a hybrid surface design, and the utilization of GBR to predictably regeneration periimplant bone defects, both the main topics of his translational research activities since the late 1980's.