Tolga Tozum, DDS, PhD
Professor
Periodontics
Contact
Building & Room:
469G
Address:
801 S. Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60612
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About
Dr. Tozum serves as Professor in the Department of Periodontics. He is a dental graduate from Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey and completed an integrated post-graduate clinical education program in Periodontics at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey and Ph.D. training in bone metabolism from the University of Michigan and Hacettepe University. Dr. Tozum went on to earn a Certificate in Advanced Periodontics from the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Prior to joining UIC, Dr. Tozum served as Professor of Periodontics and Associate Dean of Dentistry at Hacettepe University. He also serves as a faculty member in the Advisory Board and Teaching Committee of PhD course in Bio-Engineering Applied to Medical Sciences at University of Messina, Italy, Adjunct Professor at Near East University, Cyprus and Adjunct Professor at Lokman Hekim University, Turkey.
Dr. Tozum is a Diplomate of Academy of Osseointegration (AO), serves as Vice-Chair for the AO Osseointegration Fund Research Grants Committee, and Chair for AO Web Site Education Committee. He has been serving in the editorial board of many internationally recognized 3D-digital dentistry, advanced periodontics and implant dentistry related scientific journals, including Clinical Oral Implants Research, Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research, Implant Dentistry, International Journal of Oral Implantology, the Journal of Implant and Advanced Clinical Dentistry, Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice (Associate Editor), and the Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Research.
Dr. Tozum has 10 awards/honors given by local, national and international scientific organizations for his clinical activities, teaching and research efforts in dentistry, periodontics and implant surgeries. He organized national and international dental meetings as well as implant dentistry related organizations, he lectured more than 100 times at national/international scientific meetings, and published 155 articles in peer reviewed scientific journals related to implant surgeries, 3-Dimensional imaging, and advanced periodontics. Dr. Tozum wrote and translated 14 book chapters about clinical periodontology, bone grafting and dental implant surgeries. He also served as the translation editor of a textbook related to full-arch dental implant rehabilitation. He has been in clinical dental practice about advanced periodontics and implant surgeries for more than 20 years.
Selected Publications
Education
Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey (Dentistry), 1998
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey (Periodontology), 2002
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey and University of Michigan, PhD (Health Sciences), 2002
University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, Certificate in Advanced Education in Periodontics, 2017
Hypnosis Motivation Institute, California (Hypnotherapy), 2020
Licensures and Certifications
Licensed Dentist, Illinois
Licensed Specialist in Dentistry (Periodontics), Illinois
Research Currently in Progress
Dr. Tozum was the primary- and co-investigator of many research activities including periodontal and peri-implant health and disease (inflammatory markers of periodontal crevicular fluid and peri-implant sulcus fluid), comparative soft tissue grafting surgeries, regenerative procedures related to hard tissue applications, evaluation of sinus hard tissue regenerative grafting by histomorhometry and micro-tomography. His studies also included understanding the stability and mobility values of immediate/early/delayed loaded dental implants and the impact of different kinds of prosthetic loading of implants in health and disease, evaluation of bone quality and quantity of jaw bones in spiral/medical tomography and cone beam/dental computed tomography as well as the association between bone density and stability evaluations of dental implants, esthetic analysis of endosseous implants, understanding the vital anatomic structures and landmarks of jaws.