Jose Mendonça Caridad MD, DDS, DMD, PhD

Dr Mendonca-Caridad is a doctor, dentist and oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Previously a Clinical and Research Fellow in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the UCLA School of Dentistry, he is now working at the Polusa hospital in Lugo, Spain. He uses autologous stem cells for reconstruction and rehabilitation of the oral cavity. He is the co-author of the first clinical paper on stem cell therapies in advanced disease in the head and neck region and of one of the first clinical papers on stem cells (published in Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 2010). He also works as a volunteering surgeon in Africa and helps rebuild the faces of children with deformities.