Rate My Professor Patrick Schmidlin

Professor Patrick Schmidlin serves as Honorary Professor at the Sir John Walsh Research Institute, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral Sciences, University of Otago, a position he has held since 2012. He is concurrently Professor and Head of the Division of Periodontology at the Clinic of Conservative and Preventive Dentistry, Center of Dental Medicine, University of Zurich. Schmidlin obtained his Dr. med. dent. degree from the University of Zurich in 1998 after studying dentistry there from 1993 to 1998. He completed postgraduate programs in restorative dentistry in 2000 and periodontology in 2004, earned his PhD in 2005, habilitation in 2006, and finished specialist training in periodontology in 2011. He was appointed Titular Professor in 2012. His clinical specializations include periodontology (Fachzahnarzt SSO), implant dentistry (Weiterbildungsausweis SGI/SSO), and preventive and restorative dentistry (Weiterbildungsausweis SSPRE/SSO). He holds the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (FDS RCPS(Glasg)).

Schmidlin's research focuses on anti-infective management of caries and periodontitis, prevention and non- or minimally invasive therapy of caries, non-surgical and regenerative periodontal therapy, peri-implantitis, and dentin hypersensitivity. At the University of Otago, he has acted as advisor and supervisor for Doctor of Clinical Dentistry theses, including those on novel grafting materials for sinus floor elevation in the sheep model, alveolar ridge preservation in the sheep model, microbial leakage at the implant-abutment interface, and the accuracy of cone beam computed tomography. He has co-authored key publications such as "In vitro and in vivo investigation of antibacterial silver nanoparticles functionalized bone grafting substitutes" (2024, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A), "In vivo healing of low temperature deproteinized bovine bone mineral in a sinus augmentation sheep model" (2024, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A), "Biphasic calcium phosphate and polymer-coated bovine bone mineral in sinus augmentation: a randomized controlled clinical trial" (2020, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B), and earlier works like "Comparative assessment of hardening of demineralized dentin" (2007, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B). With over 245 publications indexed in PubMed, he serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Dentistry and has delivered keynote lectures, including at the Sir John Walsh Research Institute Research Day in 2019. His contributions advance periodontal and implant dentistry through preclinical and clinical research.