Dr. Carlos Aparicio

Carlos Aparicio

MD (Summa Cum Laude), DDS, MSc, MSc, DLT, Ph.D. (Summa Cum Laude)

Dr. Aparicio received his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree with Summa Cum Laude from the University of Navarra in 1978. Thereafter, he completed postgraduate studies in Dentistry in 1983 at the University of Barcelona. At the beginning of his career, he became a Dental Laboratory Technician in 1983 at Ramon y Cajal School in Barcelona. A year later, Dr. Aparicio received a Diploma in Implant Dentistry In 1984 from the University of Gothenburg (with Prof P-I Bränemark as tutor), and he was awarded a Master of Materials Science at the University of Barcelona in 1990 before receiving his Diploma in Periodontics from the University of Gothenburg in 1995 (Profs. Jan Lindhe and Jose Javier Echeverría as tutors). He was awarded a Master's in Biomedical Research from the University of Barcelona in 2010, and in 2013, Dr. Aparicio became PhD in medicine with summa Cum Laude and International Mention. The thesis title was: "Zygomatic implants: state of the art and criteria for success," and this was defended at the University of Barcelona (Profs. Tomas Albrektsson, Jan Lindhe, Xavier Gil, Jose M Suarez, and Mariano Monzo as Jury).

He is a fellow researcher with the Handicap Research Group in the Department of Biomaterials at the University of Gothenburg (Prof. Tomas Albrektsson as a tutor) and became an International Teaching Scholar at Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, USA, in 2021. He has written numerous articles for international journals. In 2012, he was the editor of the book "Zygomatic Implants: The Anatomy-Guided Approach (ZAGA)". In 2023, he was the editor of the book "Advanced Zygomatic Implants: The ZAGA Approach". He has served as a referee at the European J. of Oral Implantology and J. of Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research. He is a Fellow of

the Royal Society of Medicine in England and became an Academic at The Royal European Academy of Doctors in 2016. Dr. Aparicio is a past president 2003-2004 of the Osseointegration Foundation of the American Academy of

Osseointegration. From 2003 to 2005, he served as a Board Member of the European Academy of Osseointegration. He was President of the European Association of Osseointegration Barcelona meeting in Barcelona in 2007. He also founded and is the honorific President of the Spanish Society of Minimally Invasive Dentistry. Dr. Aparicio received the Fonseca Award from the Spanish Society of Periodontics three times. In his latest endeavor, he was awarded the Simo Virgili Prize by The Catalonian Society of Odonto-Stomatology twice. He founded the Zygoma ZAGA Centers Network in 2018 (www.zagacenters.com) to spread the ZAGA philosophy globally. Currently, he is sharing his knowledge as a Zygomatic implants Senior Consultant at Hepler Bone Clinic in Barcelona, Spain. He also lectures at international conferences and leads theoretical and practical components of ZAGA Courses, sharing his extensive knowledge with dental professionals worldwide. Additionally, he presides over the Edentulism Conference, the first-ever scientific meeting dedicated to solutions for edentulous patients.