Prof. Dr. Ali Tahmaseb left Teheran for Belgium while in his late teens, where he began his dental education at the University of Ghent in 1988. Since then he has followed various training programs in oral surgery and implant dentistry throughout Europe and the USA. In 2011 he completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam, ACTA and stayed on to become an associate professor in the department of oral implantology and prosthetic dentistry. He was also responsible for research and education in that department.  He is currently associate professor at the department of Oral & Maxillofacial surgery at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His main research areas are about guided surgery and navigation techniques, CAD/CAM, managing of extraction sockets and its esthetic outcomes and guided bone regeneration around dental implants. He is co-founder of a novel concept in guided surgery and a primary investigator implant dentistry at the department of Oral & Maxillofacial surgery at Erasmus Academic Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Ali Tahmaseb is also active in his private referring offices in Antwerp (Belgium) and Amsterdam and Tilburg (Netherlands).