Dr. Abdelsalam Elaskary is the founder of Elaskary and Associates, a clinical and educational institute in Alexandria, Egypt, and a visiting lecturer at New York University College of Dentistry.

He earned his Bachelor's degree in Dental Science from Alexandria University in 1986, with further clinical training at Frankfurt University and in the Department of Periodontology at Tufts University, both in 1993, and at Faulkner Hospital in Boston in 1995.

He specializes in implant dentistry, and developed the vestibular socket therapy protocol for immediate implant placement in compromised extraction sockets, a technique validated in a 2022 randomized controlled trial published in Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research.

He has authored three textbooks with John Wiley and Sons - Reconstructive Aesthetic Implant Surgery (2003), Fundamentals of Esthetic Implant Dentistry (2008, updated 2018), and Advances in Esthetic Implant Dentistry (2019) - and holds patents for implant-related instruments, including the El Askary Papilla Template and the Elaskary Socket Repair Kit. He serves as president of the Arab Society of Oral Implantology, Vice President of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI) for Egypt, and a founding board member of the Arabian Academy of Esthetic Dentistry, and received the Ralph V. McKinney Annual Award in 1999 for the best globally published article in Implant Dentistry.

At Dental Leaders Academy, he shares his protocol-driven approach to esthetic implant reconstruction in the anterior zone.