Dr. Seong-Hun (Sunny) Kim DMD, MS, PhD

Dr. Seong-Hun (Sunny) Kim is a Professor and Head of the Department of Orthodontics School of Dentistry, Kyung Hee University, and Director of the Biocreative Orthodontic Strategy Center, Kyung Hee University Dental Hospital. He is also a visiting assistant professor of Department of Orthodontics, Saint Louis University, Visiting Professor and Honorary Head, Department of Orthodontics, National Hospital of Odontology and Stomatology in Hochiminh City Vietnam, and Visiting Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Dalian Medical University, China. Dr. Kim obtained an Orthodontic certificate and MS in Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry at the Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea, and PhD in Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry at the Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. He was volunteer faculty of the Division of Orthodontics, Department of Orofacial Sciences at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Kim was selected as one of 100 Top Authors of 100 year of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (AJODO) in 2015. One of his research paper (Angle Orthod 2015; 85: 253-262) was named as winner of the 2017 Edward H Angle Research Prize as the best paper published in The Angle Orthodontist. Dr. Kim has lectured and published nationally and internationally on temporary skeletal anchorage devices (miniimplant and miniplate), corticotomy related orthodontics, Digital Orthodontics, Digital indirect bonding system, shape memory aligners, and Biocreaetive Orthodontics Strategy. He is the author of ten international textbooks and over 170 international and domestic scientific articles about this topic.