Doctor of Medicine, Professor; Head of Dentistry and Maxillofacial Surgery at the TSU Faculty of Medicine; Founder and President of the Georgian Dental Association; has supervised successful completion of 12 dissertations; is author of about 100 scientific publications – 28 in highly ranked scientific journals; served as Chairperson of World Dental Federation Committee (www.fdiworldental.org); is currently a Member of the Committee of International Association of Dental Research (IADR). He is Editorial Board Member of highly-ranked scientific journals in Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Georgia; serves as Expert at the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia.