User:Takayoshi Sakai

Takayoshi Sakai (born August 11, 1964) is a dental researcher and clinician who is working in Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry (Osaka, Japan) as a professor and chairman.

Biography
Sakai was born in Osaka, Japan and is a distinguished alumnus of both Tokushima University School of Dentistry (1985-1991) and Osaka's Tennoji High School (1980-1983). He received his B.S. in dentistry with honour and distinction from Tokushima University in 1983 and Ph.D. in oral and maxillofacial surgery at Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry in 1999.

In April 2000, he moved to the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, in the US and started salivary gland research. He is currently a professor at the Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry and a chief at the Osaka University Dental Hospital