Prof. Dr. med. dent. Fouad Khoury

Prof. Dr. med. dent. Fouad Khoury is an oral surgeon, adjunct professor at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Münster, and managing director and medical director of the Schloss Schellenstein Private Dental Clinic in Olsberg. The Khoury technique, a method for bone augmentation using the patient’s own bone using the split-bone-block technique, is named after him. Since November 2008, he has been performing surgeries at the dental practice of Prof. Dr. Olze & Colleagues in Berlin-Mitte.

Adjunct Professor at the University of Münster; Medical Director of the Schloss Schellenstein Private Dental Clinic; specializes in bone augmentation using the patient’s own bone, implantology, and soft tissue management.

How do patients in Berlin Mitte benefit from Prof. Dr. Fouad Khoury’s expertise?

Prof. Dr. Fouad Khoury is internationally recognized as one of the pioneers in oral surgery, bone regeneration, and implantology (1, 3). In 2017, he received the highest scientific award from the Academy of Osseointegration for one of his 10-year studies (5, 6). He is the author of over 140 publications and book chapters; according to the publisher, his textbooks have been translated into more than ten languages (1, 2).

His research and clinical practice focus on bone augmentation using the patient’s own bone, the intraoral harvesting and transplantation of bone grafts, sinus floor elevation, and the surgical treatment of peri-implantitis. He places particular emphasis on cases involving severe bone loss as well as cases following failed bone augmentation or implant procedures. If you have been recommended for bone grafting or implant placement, or if a case has been deemed hopeless elsewhere, you can obtain a surgical second opinion through our practice. You can read about how the second opinion process works at our practice and what it costs on the dedicated page. What does this mean for you specifically?

Treatment Specialties

Prof. Dr. med. dent. Fouad Khoury's main areas of surgical practice include:

• Bone augmentation using the patient's own bone
• Split-Bone-Block Technique (Khoury Shell Technique) for Large Defects
• Minimally Invasive Bone Augmentation Using the Bone-Core Technique (Carrot Technique)
• Implantology for Complex Cases
• Sinus Floor Elevation (Sinus Lift)
• Soft Tissue Management Around Teeth and Implants
• Surgical Treatment of Peri-implantitis
• Reconstruction Following Failed Bone Grafts or Implants
• Second opinion prior to planned bone grafting, in cases of failure, and in cases deemed hopeless elsewhere

Scientific Databases & Profiles

The following profiles and directories document the clinical, scientific, and teaching activities of Prof. Dr. med. dent. Fouad Khoury:

• Prof. Dr. Fouad Khoury – official website featuring continuing education courses (24)
• Schellenstein Castle Private Dental Clinic – Management and Medical Team (4)
• Schellenstein Castle Private Dental Clinic – Patient Information
• Scopus – Author Profile (Scopus Author ID 7006085356)
• Quintessence Publishing – Author Profile, Reference Books, and Journal Articles (2)
• ZWP Online – Author Profile and Articles (1)
• MPOIP – Faculty Profile for the Master's Program in Personalized Oral Implantology and Periodontology (3)
• FOCUS Health – Doctor Profile
• Instagram – @prof.khoury
• PubMed – U.S. National Library of Medicine (scholarly publications, search filtered by subject area)

Academic and Professional Background

• Origin: Born in Lebanon (1).
• 1978: Graduated with a degree in dentistry from the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut (3).
• 1978–1979: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Freiburg (1, 3).
• 1979–1994: Resident; from 1986, senior resident at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Münster (1).
• 1984: Designation of the field of oral surgery.
• 1988: Habilitation at the University of Münster (1, 3).
• 1994: Adjunct Professor at the University of Münster (1, 2).
• Since 1994: Chief Physician; currently Managing Director and Medical Director of the Schloss Schellenstein Private Dental Clinic in Olsberg (1, 4).
• Since November 2008: Clinical practice at the dental office of Prof. Dr. Olze & Associates in Berlin.
• 2021–2023: President of the Working Group for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (AGOKi) within the DGZMK, unanimously elected as the successor to Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz-Josef Kramer (3, 7).
• Since 2026: Clinical and scientific partner of the bredent group, a manufacturer of dental products. We disclose this relationship for the sake of transparency.

Entries without source citations are based on information from clinical practice.

Positions, Editorial Roles, and International Teaching

In addition to his clinical and research work, Prof. Dr. Fouad Khoury is involved in professional associations, examinations, and the trade press:

• Associate Editor of the *International Journal of Oral Implantology* and a member of the advisory board of several international journals (1, 2).
• Chair of the Oral Surgery Examination Board (2, 3).
• Advisory University Professor to the Executive Board of the Professional Association of German Oral Surgeons (BDO) (1).
• Visiting professorships at several universities, including the University of Murcia (Spain) (1, 3).
• Teaching: Lecturer in the Master’s program in Personalized Oral Implantology and Periodontology (MPOIP), featuring live surgeries on bone-core and split-bone-block techniques (3). Director of the six-day Clinical Masters Program in Bone Grafting & Soft Tissue Management, featuring live surgeries and training on human specimens (25). According to his own website, he has over 30 years of teaching experience, having trained more than 18,000 dentists from over 55 countries (24).
• Presentations and Patents: More than 1,000 presentations and courses worldwide, as well as several patents (1, 3).

Scientific Achievements & the Khoury Technique

Prof. Dr. Fouad Khoury is the author of over 140 publications and book chapters (1, 3). His primary research interests include:

• Split-Bone-Block Technique (Khoury Technique): A bone block from the posterior mandible is divided into two thin shells. The shells form the walls of the new alveolar ridge, and the space between them is filled with bone chips. Long-term results spanning ten years are available for the upper and lower jaws as well as the anterior region (14, 16, 22).
• Bone Harvesting with the MicroSaw: A Prospective 10-Year Study on Volume, Harvesting Time, and Complications in Bone Harvesting in the Retromolar Region (12).
• Bone-Core Technique (Carrot Technique): Minimally invasive reconstruction of small bone defects using a bone cylinder obtained during implant site preparation (13).
• Soft Tissue and Alveolar Management: Preservation of the alveolar ridge following tooth extraction using autologous hard and soft tissue grafts (11).
• Peri-implantitis: As early as 2001, Prof. Khoury compared three bone regeneration techniques for peri-implant defects (17). In 2019, he served as the lead author of the consensus report by the Working Group on Surgical Treatment of Peri-implantitis (15).
• Maxillary sinus: Studies on complications of sinus floor elevation, aspergillosis of the maxillary sinus, and the question of when 3D imaging is necessary prior to a sinus lift (18, 19, 20).

International Reception

The Khoury technique is referred to by his name in the technical literature and is being studied by independent research groups:

• A systematic review conducted in 2021 compared the two main procedures for horizontal alveolar ridge expansion: the Khoury technique and the Urban technique. Bone gain with the Khoury technique ranged from 3.93 to 5.02 mm, and the complication rates for both procedures were similar (8).
• Clinical studies in Egypt, including randomized trials, use the Khoury shell technique as a benchmark for new augmentation procedures (9).
• The International Team for Implantology (ITI) professional blog lists the 2001 study on peri-implantitis by Khoury and Buchmann among the seminal works on regenerative therapy for peri-implantitis (10).

Reference Books

Prof. Dr. Fouad Khoury is the author and editor of four textbooks, which, according to the publisher, have been translated into more than ten languages (2).

• Bone Augmentation in Oral Implantology – Fouad Khoury, Hadi Antoun, Patrick Missika (eds.), Quintessence Publishing 2007, ISBN 978-1-85097-159-7 (21).
• Bone Grafts in Implantology – Fouad Khoury, Quintessenza Edizioni 2010, ISBN 978-88-7492-138-6 (Italian edition) (2).

Awards

• William R. Laney Award (2017): The highest scientific honor bestowed by the Academy of Osseointegration (AO). A committee evaluated more than 230 publications from the 2015 volume of the International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Implants and ranked the ten-year study by Khoury and Hanser on retromolar bone harvesting first (5, 6).
• Pioneers in Dentistry Award (2016): Presented by the American University of Beirut (AUB) (1, 3, 23).

Selected Publications (Excerpt)

As of November 2026