Masao Yamazaki DDS

Dr Masao Yamazaki, DDS, is a well-known Japanese dentist maintaining a private practice in Tokyo, where he treats patients together with his dentist son. With over 40 years of experience in dentistry, he is one of the key opinion leaders in Japan and has seen the industry change and evolve multiple times during his career. Today, Dr Yamazaki is a renowned Japanese dentist with an impressive career of more than 40 years. He graduated from the Tokyo Dental College in 1970 but moved to the United States almost immediately to study occlusion and gnathology concepts at the University of Southern Carolina (USC). Although Dr. Yamazaki returned to Japan a few years later and founded his private practice in Tokyo in 1974, he has remained active in international arenas throughout the years and is an esteemed keynote speaker all around the world.

Dr Yamazaki specializes in aesthetic dentistry and prosthodontics, even though he also performs periodontal and root canal treatments as well as general dental procedures. Besides working in his private practice with his son, he has allocated time to dental education throughout his career and trained fellow dentists both in Japan and abroad. He also founded the Society of Japan Clinical Dentistry, a study group for improving clinical dentistry with an interdisciplinary approach. During his career, Dr Yamazaki has seen the dental profession change with each new generation. In the 1970s, the focus was laid on occlusal studies, until it shifted towards the importance of periodontal treatments in the 1980s. In the 1990s, the Brånemark System brought implants into the spotlight, whereas the 2000s were the decade of aesthetic dentistry.