Prof Nabil Kochaji

Nabil Kochaji (born April 19, 1975) is a Syrian author, novelist, medical researcher and academic. His extensive work in research and subsequent interest in literature was aided by his multilingual skills as he is well versed in English, Arabic, Flemish, Spanish and German.

Education and career

Dr. Nabil started his career as a dentist after graduating in 1997 from the faculty of dentistry in the University of Damascus. Following that he pursued a masters in medical and pharmaceutical research from the Vrije Universitaite Brussels (VUB), Faculteit van de Geneeskude en Farmacie before finally achieving a PhD in Dental Sciences at the same University in 2005. He is currently a full professor at the faculty of Dentistry in the University of Damascus. This academic year (2016-2017) he was assigned to the position of: Founding Dean, faculty of dentistry at Al-Sham Private University.

He was awarded Senior Robert-Frank award from the International Association for Dental research (IADR), 2005, Title of abstract: the Possible role of Myoepithelial Cells in Salivary Glands Pathogenesis and has since supervised eight master students and one doctorate in the same research line.

In September 2017, he was the first ever to describe the “Peri-Implant Cyst” in his article: Inflammatory odontogenic cyst on an osseointegrated implant: A peri-implant cyst? New entity proposed, published in Dental and Medical Problems .

Abstract:

Rare but FATAL!

Although most frequently seen oral lesions are most probably gentle lesions, still the rarely faced cases are the fatal one; the real problem is reaching the confirmed diagnosis

In 45 minutes we will present series of cases, starting from very commonly encountered in every day practice to rare cases, the focus will be on how to distinguish the good from bad prognosis cases.