Isaäc van der Waal, DDS, PhD

Isaäc van der Waal graduated from Dental School in 1968 at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, and took a one year rotating internship at Eastman Dental Centre, Rochester, New York. From 1975 1976 he served a Fellowship in Oral Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington D.C. In 1979 he was appointed full Professor in Oral Pathology at the University Hospital Vrije Universiteit. He is author and co-author of approximately 300 scientific papers. He wrote chapters in the field of Oral Pathology in several books and is (co) author and co editor of books on "Oral Oncology", "Oral Pathology", "The Burning Mouth Syndrome", "Diseases of the Tongue", "Diseases of the Jaws", "Diseases of the Salivary Glands", and "Histological Typing of Oral Cancer and Precancer" (WHO, 1997). At present, he is head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Pathology of the Vrije Universiteit University Medical Center/ACTA, Amsterdam.