Dr. Michael Knösel graduated from the School of Dentistry, University of Goettingen, Germany, in 2001, where he also completed his orthodontic postgraduate program at the university of Goettingen (01/2006), his habilitation in the field of orthodontics (2009), and has the position of an adjunct professor since 2013. In addition, he currently serves as a visiting professor at the Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile. He has been working in several orthodontic offices in Germany, and currently maintains a private orthodontic practice in Hamburg, Germany since 01/2016. His academic main interests include WSL prophylaxis and innovative treatment approaches, lingual orthodontics, and interactions between intra-oral soft-tissue dynamics and malocclusion.