I graduated from the University of Tirana (UT), Faculty of Dentistry, Albania. Being determined to advance in my career, I completed the Ph.D. for molecular oral biology and simultaneously performed my postgraduate orthodontic education at the Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University, Japan. To improve my knowledge of craniofacial anomalies in children and related scientific research, I continued to educate myself and attended the craniofacial orthodontic fellowship at the Department of Orthodontics and Craniofacial Anomalies at Rambam Health Care Campus, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel (https://acpa-cpf.org/education/fellowship-educational-opportunities/). I am dedicated to the clinical and research work in the field of orthodontics and collaboration with other medical fields. My clinical and research interests are about comprehensive cleft care and craniofacial anomalies, diagnosis and treatment of human congenital disorders, 3D analysis of the human face, Invisalign treatment, and micro-implant application in orthodontics. I am focused and committed to extending my clinical research in these areas improving the level of clinical-academic research, professional network in medical-dental settings and academia for teaching purposes.
Quintessence: Publicación internacional de odontología, 2019
La preservacion preortodontica del alveolo tras la extraccion dental para mejorar la morfologia y... more La preservacion preortodontica del alveolo tras la extraccion dental para mejorar la morfologia y arquitectura favorables de la cresta dentoalveolar y facilitar el movimiento dental ortodontico (MOD) y el cierre del espacio de extraccion. Este caso clinico de clase esqueletica II de un chico de 13 anos presenta una oportunidad unica para evaluar y comparar el cierre del espacio de extraccion con MOD mediante un analisis de boca partida en un unico paciente. El tratamiento ortodontico periodontal completo incluyo la extraccion no simultanea de los primeros molares mandibulares bilaterales periodontalmente comprometidos y la erupcion de los caninos impactados bilaterales. Mientras que el espacio posextraccion derecho desarrollo un proceso de cicatrizacion natural, el izquierdo fue injertado utilizando 4BONE BCH (hidroxiapatita β- fosfato tricalcico [HA-β-TCP], HA 60% y β-TCP 40%). El tratamiento multidisciplinario de 3 anos dio lugar a relaciones de clase I en el lado derecho y de clase II en el lado izquierdo, asi como a la mejora de la apariencia facial y la relacion dento-esqueletica maxilar. Sin embargo, un espacio alveolar residual de 3 mm no se cerro en el lado izquierdo injertado a lo largo de un tercer molar izquierdo no erupcionado. Este analisis comparativo de boca partida del cierre de espacio ortodontico mostro una diferencia clinica significativa en el resultado. La colocacion preortodontica del material de injerto de HA-β-TCP en el segmento izquierdo, demostro ser un obstaculo para el cierre del espacio de extraccion con MOD, impidiendo el establecimiento de una buena oclusion.
After a three-year quarantine from the deadliest global pandemic of the last century, ASTES is or... more After a three-year quarantine from the deadliest global pandemic of the last century, ASTES is organizing to gather all health professionals in Tirana, The 6th Albanian Congress of Trauma and Emergency Surgery(ACTES 2022) on 11-12 November 2022, with the topic Trauma & Emergency Surgery and not only...with the aim of providing high quality, the best standards, and the best results, for our patients ...ACTES 2022 is the largest event that ASTES (Albanian Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery) has organized so far with 230 presentations, and 67 foreign lecturers with enviable geography, making it the largest national and wider scientific event.The scientific program is as strong as ever, thanks to the inclusiveness, where all the participants with a mix of foreign and local lecturers, select the best of the moment in medical science, innovation, and observation.The scientific committee has selected all the presentations so that the participants of each medical discipline will have ...
Evidence regarding the possible influence of nutritional status on the facial morphology has thus... more Evidence regarding the possible influence of nutritional status on the facial morphology has thus far been insufficient. We examined whether or not the physical body compositions and dietary behaviors were correlated with any morphological characteristics of the face. One hundred and fifteen young Japanese women participated. Variables representing the dietary behaviors were extracted from self-reported survey data, and corresponding three-dimensional (3D) facial images and body compositions were examined. Multivariate analyses identified significant relationships between the nutritional status and facial topography (p < 0.05). The clustering method revealed the existence of three dietary condition patterns (“balanced diet”, “high-calorie-diet” with obesity tendency, and “imbalanced low-calorie-diet” with sarcopenic obesity tendency). Among these three patterns, a round face (increased facial width; analysis of variance [ANOVA], p < 0.05) was observed in the high-calorie-diet ...
Examining the extent to which sex differences in three-dimensional (3D) facial soft tissue config... more Examining the extent to which sex differences in three-dimensional (3D) facial soft tissue configurations are similar across diverse populations could suggest the source of the indirect evolutionary benefits of facial sexual dimorphism traits. To explore this idea, we selected two geographically distinct populations. Three-dimensional model faces were derived from 272 Turkish and Japanese men and women; their facial morphologies were evaluated using landmark and surface-based analyses. We found four common facial features related to sexual dimorphism. Both Turkish and Japanese females had a shorter lower face height, a flatter forehead, greater sagittal cheek protrusion in the infraorbital region but less prominence of the cheek in the parotid-masseteric region, and an antero-posteriorly smaller nose when compared with their male counterparts. The results indicated the possible phylogenetic contribution of the masticatory organ function and morphogenesis on sexual dimorphism of the ...
One of the most suitable procedures in orthodontics for the management of impacted teeth is the o... more One of the most suitable procedures in orthodontics for the management of impacted teeth is the orthodontic traction. Using a bonded accessory and an orthodontic force to pull the canine to its correct position requires multiple activations, which has often shown to be one of the main reasons for failure. A simple chair-side fabrication technique using nickel-titanium closed-coil spring-assisted attachment for precisely orthodontic traction of impacted teeth is presented.
Quintessence: Publicación internacional de odontología, 2019
La preservacion preortodontica del alveolo tras la extraccion dental para mejorar la morfologia y... more La preservacion preortodontica del alveolo tras la extraccion dental para mejorar la morfologia y arquitectura favorables de la cresta dentoalveolar y facilitar el movimiento dental ortodontico (MOD) y el cierre del espacio de extraccion. Este caso clinico de clase esqueletica II de un chico de 13 anos presenta una oportunidad unica para evaluar y comparar el cierre del espacio de extraccion con MOD mediante un analisis de boca partida en un unico paciente. El tratamiento ortodontico periodontal completo incluyo la extraccion no simultanea de los primeros molares mandibulares bilaterales periodontalmente comprometidos y la erupcion de los caninos impactados bilaterales. Mientras que el espacio posextraccion derecho desarrollo un proceso de cicatrizacion natural, el izquierdo fue injertado utilizando 4BONE BCH (hidroxiapatita β- fosfato tricalcico [HA-β-TCP], HA 60% y β-TCP 40%). El tratamiento multidisciplinario de 3 anos dio lugar a relaciones de clase I en el lado derecho y de clase II en el lado izquierdo, asi como a la mejora de la apariencia facial y la relacion dento-esqueletica maxilar. Sin embargo, un espacio alveolar residual de 3 mm no se cerro en el lado izquierdo injertado a lo largo de un tercer molar izquierdo no erupcionado. Este analisis comparativo de boca partida del cierre de espacio ortodontico mostro una diferencia clinica significativa en el resultado. La colocacion preortodontica del material de injerto de HA-β-TCP en el segmento izquierdo, demostro ser un obstaculo para el cierre del espacio de extraccion con MOD, impidiendo el establecimiento de una buena oclusion.
After a three-year quarantine from the deadliest global pandemic of the last century, ASTES is or... more After a three-year quarantine from the deadliest global pandemic of the last century, ASTES is organizing to gather all health professionals in Tirana, The 6th Albanian Congress of Trauma and Emergency Surgery(ACTES 2022) on 11-12 November 2022, with the topic Trauma & Emergency Surgery and not only...with the aim of providing high quality, the best standards, and the best results, for our patients ...ACTES 2022 is the largest event that ASTES (Albanian Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery) has organized so far with 230 presentations, and 67 foreign lecturers with enviable geography, making it the largest national and wider scientific event.The scientific program is as strong as ever, thanks to the inclusiveness, where all the participants with a mix of foreign and local lecturers, select the best of the moment in medical science, innovation, and observation.The scientific committee has selected all the presentations so that the participants of each medical discipline will have ...
Evidence regarding the possible influence of nutritional status on the facial morphology has thus... more Evidence regarding the possible influence of nutritional status on the facial morphology has thus far been insufficient. We examined whether or not the physical body compositions and dietary behaviors were correlated with any morphological characteristics of the face. One hundred and fifteen young Japanese women participated. Variables representing the dietary behaviors were extracted from self-reported survey data, and corresponding three-dimensional (3D) facial images and body compositions were examined. Multivariate analyses identified significant relationships between the nutritional status and facial topography (p < 0.05). The clustering method revealed the existence of three dietary condition patterns (“balanced diet”, “high-calorie-diet” with obesity tendency, and “imbalanced low-calorie-diet” with sarcopenic obesity tendency). Among these three patterns, a round face (increased facial width; analysis of variance [ANOVA], p < 0.05) was observed in the high-calorie-diet ...
Examining the extent to which sex differences in three-dimensional (3D) facial soft tissue config... more Examining the extent to which sex differences in three-dimensional (3D) facial soft tissue configurations are similar across diverse populations could suggest the source of the indirect evolutionary benefits of facial sexual dimorphism traits. To explore this idea, we selected two geographically distinct populations. Three-dimensional model faces were derived from 272 Turkish and Japanese men and women; their facial morphologies were evaluated using landmark and surface-based analyses. We found four common facial features related to sexual dimorphism. Both Turkish and Japanese females had a shorter lower face height, a flatter forehead, greater sagittal cheek protrusion in the infraorbital region but less prominence of the cheek in the parotid-masseteric region, and an antero-posteriorly smaller nose when compared with their male counterparts. The results indicated the possible phylogenetic contribution of the masticatory organ function and morphogenesis on sexual dimorphism of the ...
One of the most suitable procedures in orthodontics for the management of impacted teeth is the o... more One of the most suitable procedures in orthodontics for the management of impacted teeth is the orthodontic traction. Using a bonded accessory and an orthodontic force to pull the canine to its correct position requires multiple activations, which has often shown to be one of the main reasons for failure. A simple chair-side fabrication technique using nickel-titanium closed-coil spring-assisted attachment for precisely orthodontic traction of impacted teeth is presented.
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