Dr. Pierluigi Balice, DDS, MDSc, is a board-certified periodontist and part-time clinical faculty member at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, where he holds an appointment as Lecturer on Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity. He maintains a private practice limited to periodontics, dental implants, and sedation dentistry in the Boston metropolitan area, and is dual-licensed to practice in the United States and Europe.

He earned his DDS summa cum laude from the University of Bari, Italy, followed by a second DDS from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry, a Master of Dental Science, and three years of specialty training in periodontics, both completed at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine.

He previously served as a full-time Clinical Professor of Periodontics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry, where he directed the predoctoral periodontics curriculum and taught residents in the Advanced Education program, and has also been a visiting lecturer at New York University College of Dentistry.

He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, a member of the American Academy of Periodontology, the European Association for Osseointegration, the Osteology Foundation, and the International Team for Implantology, and author of book chapters on peri-implantitis and implant biomechanics.

At Dental Leaders Academy, he shares a clinician-educator's perspective on periodontal and implant surgery.