Innovations for Restoring Missing Bone*

James C. Melville, DDS, FACS, is a Professor in the Bernard and Gloria Pepper Katz Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). He specializes in oral, head and neck oncology and microvascular reconstructive surgery. He earned his DDS from University of Michigan and completed a genearl practice residency at the University of California, San Francisco, followed by an oral and maxillofacial surgery residency and fellowships in oncology and microvascular reconstruction at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. Dr. Melville was appointed oral and maxillofacial surgery internship director at UTHealth in 2017 and has received several honors from AAOMS, including the Faculty Educator Development Award in 2019 and the Clinical Research Award in 2023. He served as the President of the Oral and Maxillofacial Section of the American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR)/International Association of Dental Research and was a scientific committee member for the International Academy of Oral Oncology conference. He is a Diplomate and examiner of ABOMS. Dr. Melville has lectured at more than 20 academic institutions, authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles, contributed to 35 textbook chapters and written five textbooks. He serves as a peer reviewer for multiple leading journals.

Simon Young, DDS, MD, PhD, FACS, is Associate Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Dentistry. He completed his DDS at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, in 2003, his PhD at Rice University, Department of Bioengineering, Houston, Texas, in 2008, and his MD at University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 2011. He subsequently completed first an Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Residency at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and then a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Immuno-Engineering at Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Dr. Young is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is the author of over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has an NIH-funded laboratory that studies biomaterials-based cancer immunotherapies and maxillofacial tissue engineering.