Prof. Louis Hardan

• Prof. Louis Hardan, former head of the restorative and esthetic department at Saint Joseph University Beirut-Lebanon, is actually the director of the master's program.
• He graduated in dentistry in 1989 and continued his post-doctoral education at Saint Joseph University; he obtained a certificate for basic science in 1993, completed his specialization in restorative and esthetic dentistry in 1995, and completed his Ph.D. in oral biology and materials in 2009.
• He was an active member of the Lebanese Dental Association board (LDA) (2006-2009) and was assigned as a general secretary of the LDA in 2009.
• At the present, he is a full professor at Saint Joseph University and owns a private practice in his home town Byblos.
• He is an honorary and active international Styleitaliano member and the scientific director of this group.
• He is the Country Chairperson for Lebanon of the European Society of Cosmetic Dentistry (ESCD)
• He is the inventor of Smile Lite MDP (Smile Line, Switzerland) a device to take high-quality dental pictures with a mobile phone (Winner of the best of class technology award for 2017 in the USA) and Posterior Misura (LM instrument) an instrument for direct posterior composites.
• Prof. Hardan has many publications in international journals and author of a book entitled: “Protocols for Mobile Dental Photography with auxiliary lighting” Quintessence Publishing 2020 and has given several international lectures and courses on esthetic, restorative dentistry, and mobile dental photography