Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Yunis Amiraslan Yusubov was born in 1942. He graduated from the Azerbaijan Medical Institute in 1964. In 1972, he entered the Postgraduate School at the Department of Surgical Dentistry at the Kiev Institute of Advanced Training of Physicians. In 1975, he successfully defended his PhD thesis in Medical Sciences and worked as an assistant at the Department of Surgical Dentistry at the Kiev Medical Institute.

After completing his doctoral thesis in 1988 in Kiev, he was appointed as a professor at the Department of Surgical Dentistry at the Azerbaijan Medical Institute in 1989. Professor Y.A. Yusubov is the author of more than 250 research papers, including 2 textbooks, 3 books, 20 inventions, and 17 methodological guidelines. In 2005, he published the first textbook on maxillofacial surgery in Azerbaijani.

Professor Y.A. Yusubov delivered lectures at various international conferences. Since 1998, he has been a member of the International Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, the Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons of Azerbaijan, and the European Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons. He is also a member of the Council of the Dental Association of Azerbaijan and serves as the head of the Department of Surgical Dentistry. Many of the original surgical methods developed by Professor Yusubov in maxillofacial surgery are widely used in everyday practice.

Dr. Ahmet E. Demirbaş is associate professor and head in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Erciyes, Kayseri, Turkey. Dr. Demirbaş’s clinical practice focused on skeletal correction of dentofacial deformities and cleft lip and palate repair. Dr. Demirbaş earned his DDS degree from the University of Marmara, Faculty of Dentistry, İstanbul, Turkey. He completed his specialty and obtained PhD degree in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from Erciyes University. He served at Craniofacial Surgery and Research Centre of SDM College of Dental Science in India as a clinical visitor in 2012. He also completed research fellowship in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery of Bologna University, Italy in 2019-2020. Dr. Demirbaş is a member of national and international associations of maxillofacial surgery and has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles.