Paul Stone has been endorsed as the new President-Elect for the European Association for Osseointegration (EAO) at its recent General Assembly in Warsaw. He will hold this office for two years, taking over as President for two years at the close of the EAO Annual Congress being held at the SECC in Glasgow (7-9 October 2010), for which he is also the Scientific Chairman.

Dr Stone has been involved with implant dentistry for 20 years and is a Specialist in Oral Surgery. He is a part-time Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh Dental Institute and a member of staff at both Dundee Dental School and the Tayside Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery service in Dundee and Perth. He is also a Director of the Blackhills Specialist Dental Referral Clinic in Perthshire.

He has been the Secretary General of the Board of Directors of the EAO for the past two years and served as an Ordinary Member of the Board for the preceding year. He was also past President of the Association of Dental Implantology UK (ADI).