Prof. Darko Bozic
Professor Bozic is an Associate Professor at the Department of Periodontology, School of Dental Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia. He works at Croatia’s largest university clinical hospital, the Clinic for Periodontology, as a specialist in periodontology. In addition to that, he also works every day in his private clinic.
Professor Bozic is currently the President of the Croatian Society of Periodontology.
He has also been a long-time Croatian delegate to the EFP, a position which he left in 2017.
Between 2016 and 2019, he served as the EFP webmaster and a member of the Communications Committee, for which he was elected to another 3-year term.
Professor Bozic’s main focus in his clinical work is the reconstruction of soft and hard tissues in periodontitis-affected patients, with a special research interest in the application of growth factors, namely BMPs and Hyaluronic acid, in regenerative procedures, as well as soft tissue reconstruction utilizing various collagen matrices.
Professor Bozic collaborated in various research projects from the use of BMPs in bone reconstruction to the most recently one where with a group of collaborators they have been awarded a grant for a 4-year clinical study: Normative models of vascular biomarkers for improvement of stratification of cardiovascular risk in primary and secondary prevention (NormPreven), where periodontal parameters will be closely monitored.
Professor Bozic lectures extensively on the national and international level on various topics with more than 50 invited lectures so far and has been invited twice as a speaker at Europerio meetings. He frequently gives advanced clinical master class courses with live surgical procedures.
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