Dr Roberto Rossi graduated in dentistry and dental prosthetics (with honours) from the University of Genoa in Italy and obtained a specialist qualification in periodontics in 1991 and an MSc in dentistry in periodontics from the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine in the US in 1992. Since 1993, he has been practising in his practices in Casale Monferrato and Genoa in Italy. He has been a contract professor in several Italian universities and since 2004 has been a contract professor in the master’s degree in periodontics programme at the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy.