Director of the Clinic for Prosthodontics and Biomaterials of the University Hospital RWTH Aachen, and holder of the eponymous Chair of the Faculty of Medicine at the RWTH Aachen University.
After his graduation from the Philipps University of Marburg (degree in Dental Medicine 1995, Dr. med. dent. 1998), he joined an independent practice near Cologne (1997).
He then worked as a research assistant at the Department of Prosthodontics, Propaedeutics and Dental Materials at the Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, Campus Kiel (1998–2008), where he was appointed senior resident in 2000.
In 2001, he was certified as a “Specialist in Prosthodontics” by the German Society for Prosthetic Dentistry and Biomaterials. In May 2006, he gained his postdoctoral teaching qualification (“Habilitation”), and in October 2008 was appointed to the tenured Professorship in Prosthodontics and Biomaterials at the Faculty of Medicine at the RWTH Aachen University.
Dental implantology and implant prosthodontics have been his primary areas of clinical activity for many years. Prof. Wolfart’s main areas of research, apart from implantology and implant prosthodontics, include dental esthetics, the clinical performance of new all-ceramic materials, and their associated improvement in quality of life.
| 1990 – 1995 | Undergraduate education in Dentistry at the School of Dentistry, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany |
| 1993 | Admitted to the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes” |
| 1996 | Postgraduate student at Philipps University of Marburg, Germany |
| 1997 | General dentist at a dental-office, Dormagen, Germany |
| January 1998 | Research assistant at the Department of Prosthodontics, Propaedeutics and Dental Materials, Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, Campus Kiel |
| April 1998 | Honours Thesis (Title awarded: Doctor of Dental Medicine) |
| April 2000 | Appointed senior resident, Department of Prosthodontics, Kiel |
| Mai 2001 | Specialist in Prosthodontics (approved by the German Society for Prosthodontics and Biomaterials (DGPro). |
| Mai 2006 | Postdoctoral teaching qualification (“Habilitation”, Title awarded: Dr. med. habil; Privat Dozent), Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, Campus Kiel |
| June 2006 | Certified implantologist with the German Association of Oral Implantology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Implantologie, DGI) |
| Since Okt.2008 | Head and Chair of the Department of Prosthodontics and Biomaterials, Center for Implantology at the University Hospital Aachen (RWTH-Aachen) |
| Since 2009 | Fellow of the ITI (International Team for Implantology). |
