Dr. Michael Miloro, DMD, MD, FACS, is Professor, Department Head, and Program Director of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Illinois. Dr. Miloro was born in New York, attended the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, and received his dental degree from Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his medical degree, completed a General Surgery internship, and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery training at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Miloro is a dedicated academician who has held faculty positions at The Ohio State University, New York University, University of Maryland at Baltimore, and University of Nebraska Medical Center. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, a Faculty Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Miloro has clinical and research interests in nerve injury and neural regeneration. He has lectured nationally and internationally on many subjects, including trigeminal nerve injuries. He has published extensively in the medical and dental literature, has written several textbook chapters, and serves on the editorial boards of Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontology and the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is Editor of two major textbooks in the specialty, Peterson's Principles of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 3rd edition (PmPH-USA, 2012), and Management of Complications in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).