Sarah Cousty, DDS, PhD, works at the Dental Faculty and the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (University Hospital), France, where she is a Professor and Senior Lecturer and Hospital Practitioner in Oral Surgery. In 2002, Dr. Cousty gained a Masters Degree in Biological and Medical Sciences and a Degree in Epidemiology (applied to dental research) at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse. She went on to obtain her DDS at the same university in 2004 (First Class Honors, silver medalist) and completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering, Electrotechnical studies and Telecommunications in 2007. She took up her present position in 2008.
Sara Laurencin-Dalicieux, DDS, PhD, works at the Dental Faculty and the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (University Hospital), France, where she is a Senior Lecturer and Hospital Practitioner in Periodontology. In 2003, Dr. Laurencin-Dalicieux completed a Masters Degree in Biological and Medical Sciences and her DDS(First Class Honors, bronze medalist) at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse. She gained a PhD in Biology, Health and Biotechnologies and a Degree in Periodontology from the same university in 2010 and 2011, respectively. She took up her current position in 2013.
Both authors are in currently charge of the multidisciplinaryoral mucosaconsultation in Toulouse's University Hospital which interracts and finds itself at the crossroad of other medical specialties such as Dermatology, Maxillo-facial Surgery, ENT and Internal Medicine.