Flavio is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Periodontology at University of Central Lanarkshire (UCLan) and Honorary Consultant at University Hospital Morecambe Bay Trust and Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

He holds a Specialist degree in Oral Surgery, in Periodontics and a MSc in Implant Dentistry from Italy, where he taught in different universities for several years before relocating to the UK in 2014.

After few years teaching Perio at BPP University in Birmingham and at the MSc in periodontology at University Dental Hospital of Manchester, he moved to UCLan where he teaches periodontology in the BDS/DT course and leads the Postgraduate MSc Programme in Clinical Periodontology for UK qualified dentists.

His expertise relates to the surgical aspect of periodontology, with particular regards to periodontal regeneration and periodontal plastic surgery and soft tissue manipulation around teeth and Implants.

He is the Director of Studies for the PhD in Dentistry and his research production mainly focuses on the correlation between periodontitis and systemic health with two active streamlines in periodontitis and Alzheimer’s Disease and diabetes and periodontitis in young teenagers.