Associate Professor Hisashi Watanabe

DDS, PhD

Assoc Prof. Watanabe graduated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgeon (DDS) from the Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University in 1977 and was awarded a PhD degree from the Graduate School of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, in 1981. Appointed Associate Professor of the Periodontology, Department of Periodontology by the Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, in March 1992 to March 2000 and the Department of Hard Tissue Engineering by the Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University in April 2000-Present.

In the last decade he has been actively involved in teaching, research and clinical applications of laser in Periodontics and Periodontal Surgery and authored and co-author of numerous published laser-related articles, on Periodontology. A career highlight was to receive the Golden Award in the “Basic Research” category, at the 10th WFLD International Congress, Berlin 2006.