A specialist in oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS), Professor Lars Andersson, whose doctoral thesis centred on experimental and clinical studies on replantation of teeth, was a Professor in OMFS and Chairman of Department of Surgical Sciences at Kuwait University from 2002-2017 after which he took up his current position as the Senior Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Malmö University, Sweden since 2018. A board member of the Dental Trauma Guide Competence Centre in Copenhagen, Prof. Andersson has given more than 200 lectures and presentations worldwide, and he has published more than 100 original research articles in international Medline-indexed scientific journals. He is editor of five textbooks and chapter author in several textbooks in the fields of trauma and OMFS. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Medline indexed scientific journal, Dental Traumatology from 2007-2015 and President of the International Association of Dental Traumatology 2011-2014.