DR PASCAL MAGNE is an Associate Professor with Tenure and the Don of the Sybil Harrington Foundation Chair of Esthetic Dentistry in the Division of Restorative Sciences, University of Southern California, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, CA.

Dr Magne is a recipient of multiple awards from the Swiss Science Foundation, the Swiss Foundation for Medical-Biological Grants, and was the recipient of the 2002 Young Investigator Award from the International Association for Dental Research as well as the 2007 and 2009 Judson C. Hickey Scientific Writing Award (for the best research article of the year published in the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry). He is also the author of numerous clinical and research articles on aesthetic and adhesive dentistry and is an internationally known mentor and lecturer on these topics. Furthermore, Dr Magne authored the book Bonded Porcelain Restorations in the Anterior Dentition — A Biomimetic Approach which has been translated into twelve languages and is considered as one of the most outstanding books in the field of adhesive and aesthetic dentistry.

He is a founding member of the Academy of Biomimetic Dentistry and a mentor of the Bio-Emulation think-tank group. In 2012, he launched a revolutionary approach to the teaching of Dental Morphology, Function and Aesthetics (the 2D/3D/4D approach) for freshman students at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC.