Joerg Wiltfang

Name                         Wiltfang
First name                  Joerg
Date of birth               4th August 1963
Degree                MD, DMD, PhD, Professor and Chairman
Citizenship                  German


Positions held & present position
11th July 1987                   Approbation (dentistry)
1st May 1990                     Approbation (medicine)
10/1988 – 09/1998                 scientific staff at the Department of Oral and Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery at Goettingen University Hospital (Head: Prof. H. G. Luhr, MD, DMD)
Since January 1993          qualified oral and cranio-maxillofacial surgeon
Since July 1995         additional qualification “plastic surgery”
10/1998 – 03/2004                 Associate Professor at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Erlangen-Nuremberg University Hospital (Head: Prof. Dr. Dr. F. W. Neukam)
Since 1st April 2004           Chairman of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery at Kiel University
Since 1st January 2007          Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Cranio-Maxillo-facial-Surgery
2013 - 2015                            President German Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (AGKi)


Main Areas of Activities: 
       The focuses of the experimental activities are the use of osteoinductive and osteoconductive bone replacement materials and on studies for controlled bone regeneration, callus distraction and tissue engineering.
The focus of the clinical research activities are on the use of various microvascular reconstruction techniques within the scope of functional rehabilitation following surgical treatment, on surgical treatment of obstructive sleeping apnoea and traumatology.


Editorial Board Member:
       Journal of Cranio Maxillofacial Surgery, Implantology, Oral Oncology, Tissue engineering, Cranio Maxillofacial Surgery and Orthodontics, Journal of Stomatology, Chinese Journal of Clinicians



Prof. Joerg Wiltfang, MD, DMD                                                                                    
Head of the Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel
Arnold-Heller-Str. 3 (Haus 26)    D-24105 Kiel /Germany
Phone: +49 431 597-2820    Fax: -4084          wiltfang@mkg.uni-kiel.de