Priv Doz Dr. Dietmar Weng graduated from the University of Marburg, Germany, in 1993, and spent the subsequent 3 years as Assistant Professor at the University of Freiburg, Germany, Department of Prosthodontics. From 1996 to 1998 he worked as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Houston, USA, Department of Periodontics, and did extensive research on dental implants and regenerative materials.

From 1999 to 2004 he was Associate Professor at the University of Würzburg, Germany, Department of Prosthodontics. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Kiel, Germany, Department of Prosthodontics, where he finished his Ph.D. thesis in 2011. Apart from conventional fixed prosthodontics and esthetic rehabilitations, his main focus lies on surgical and prosthetic aspects of prosthetically driven implantology and soft tissue management upon which he has lectured and published nationally and internationally. Dr. Weng is a member of several scientific societies and serves on the editorial board of the Quintessence journal “Implantologie”. Since 2004 he has practiced in a private office in Starnberg, Germany, with a special focus on implant dentistry and periodontics. He has become Vice President of the German Society of Dental, Oral and Craniomandibular Sciences (DGZMK) in 2013.