Nurcan Buduneli is a Professor in the Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, where she has worked as a researcher for 25 years. After gaining her DDS in 1990 from Ege University, she went on to obtain her PhD from the Department of Periodontology at the same university in 1996. Dr. Buduneli has conducted collaborative international studies on a variety of topics, e.g., the etiology and mechanisms of the relationships between periodontal and other oral diseases and systemic conditions such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and complications of pregnancy; drug-induced gingival overgrowth; effects of smoking on periodontal health; and antibiotics in periodontal therapy. Since 2002, she has been giving regular undergraduate and postgraduate courses on subjects including the anatomy of periodontal tissues; drugs used in periodontal treatment; clinical evaluation, diagnosis, and prognosis of periodontal diseases; and pathogenesis of periodontal diseases. Dr. Buduneli is a Section Editor for Current Oral Health Reports, Associate Editor for Oral Diseases and editorial board member for various dental journals published in Turkish. She is the author of over 100 publications in refereed journals.