Prof. Giorgio Gastaldi

Italy

Director of the Orthognatodontics Certification School at the Vita Salute San Raffaele University since 2019. Researcher at the University of Brescia F13/Odontostomatological Diseases from 1992 to 2000. Associate Professor MED/28 Odontostomatological Diseases since 2000, confirmed in tenure in 2003. He has mainly held prosthetics (including maxillofacial prosthesis) teaching appointments.

From 1992 to 2009 he performed clinical practice at the Odontostomatology Service of Spedali Civili of Brescia. From 1994 to 2000 he was the Pedodontics outpatient activity manager and collaborated with Pediatrics treating oral and dental diseases of immunosuppressed and oncological pediatric patients and dealing with the dental preparation of children who were to receive bone marrow transplants. From 2000 to 2009 he was the Removable Prosthesis outpatient service manager mainly dealing with special needs patients in collaboration with the departments of Otolaryngology, Maxillofacial Surgery and Radiotherapy, developing regular activities in the field of maxillofacial prosthetic rehabilitation for the treatment of facial area cancer patients. Since October 2009 he has been in charge of the Odontostomatology and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics of the San Rocco Clinical Institute (Ome) San Donato Hospital Group.

From March 2015, based on the outcome of a competitive selection process, he joined the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University where he teaches Prosthetics in the Degree Course in Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics.

He contributed to the drafting of the Clinical Dentistry Guidelines published in January 2014 by the Italian Ministry of Health, within the scope of the working group “Prosthetic dentistry for post-oncological rehabilitation”. Founding member and member of the national board of the Italian Society of Prosthetic Odontostomatology and Implant Prosthetics (SIOPI) since 2001 (year of foundation), President of the Italian Society of Prosthetic Odontostomatology and Implant Prosthetics (SIOPI) for the two-year period 2014/2015.