Dr Karl-Ludwig Ackermann, a dentist and oral surgeon who owns a private practice in Filderstadt, Germany has been active since 1978 as clinician and in clinical science as well as in the field of perio-implant-prosthetic and maxillofacial implantology and has been an Oral Surgeon since 1983, specialised in oral rehabilitation, periodontology, pre-prosthetic surgery, implantology and implant-prosthetic.He is a lecturer at many universities and regional offices across Germany and the Academy of Practice and Science. He has also been a visiting lecturer at Nippon Dental University Niigata, Japan.Furthermore, he is a Board Member of the German Society of Implantology, the German Society of Dental, Oral and Craniomandibular Sciences as well as the member of the editorial board of the Journal of Dental Implantology and a Section Editor for Ridge Preservation for the International Journal of Implant Dentistry.Dr Ackermann is an approved specialist in periodontology of the EDA (European Dental Association) and an author and co-author of numerous publications and articles in the fields of expertise. He is an Honorary Fellow at the Societas Implantologica Bohemica, member of the Study Group for Restorative Dentistry and a referent at the praxis Hochschule Köln.