Prof Günter Lauer is currently the Professor and Head of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden in Germany. Prior to this position he was the Deputy Head, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden – Germany (2000-2009) and then Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical University Vienna, Austria (2009-2011). He received his medical degree at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and then his dental degree at the University of Freiburg, Germany. In 2008 he was a Founding Member and Head of the trans-disciplinary Workshop for Regenerative Medicine within the German Society of Dental Oral and Maxillo Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zahn- Mund- und Kieferheilkunde). Prof Lauer has a special interest in Traumatology – Primary Treatment and Secondary Corrections, Cleft Lip and Palate, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine and Secondary Reconstruction in Tumor Surgery.