Jonas Peter Becktor, DDS, PhD (medicine doctor) gradated in dentistry for the University of Lund, Sweden in 1988, received his specialist degree in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in 2001 at the Maxillofacial Unit, Halmstead Hospital and he defended his PhD thesis; ”On Factors Influencing the Outcome of Various Methods Using Endosseous Implants for Reconstruction of the Atrophic Edentulous and Partially Dentate Maxilla” at the University of Gothenburg in 2006.

Becktor worked as a researcher and visiting professor/clinician at the Departments in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the Loma Linda University and Mayo Clinic in the USA in 2000 and 2001. Becktor worked as an Oral & Maxillofacial Consultant at the Royal University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen and at the Maxillofacial Unit, Halmstad Hospital in 2001-2011 and is since 2012, an Associated Professor (Docent), Consultant and the Head of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Medicine at the University of Malmö, Sweden. Becktor’s main research interest is advanced implant surgery including bone grafting methods.