J.A. Baart graduated in Dentistry from the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in 1975 and then trained as an oral-maxillofacial surgeon at the Free University in Amsterdam. He has been a staff member of the Department of Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery, Free University Medical Center (VUmc) and the Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA) since 1979. Dr. Baart has taught the dental students of ACTA the practical aspects of administration of local anesthetics for the past four decades. He is the author of 34 articles in international publications and editor of two Dutch textbooks on oral/oral and maxillofacial surgery.H.S. Brand gained a Master’s degree in Medical Biology in 1986 from the Free University in Amsterdam and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1990. Since 1994 he has been Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Dental Interaction and Department of Oral Biochemistry, Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since 1996, Dr. Brand has been teaching the “side effects of local anesthetics” and he coordinated the course “Introduction to local anesthesia” at ACTA for a number of years. He is the author of almost 100 international publications and editor-in-chief of Algemene Ziekteleer voor Tandheelkunde, a Dutch textbook on internal medicine for dentists now in its third edition (Bohn Stafleu van Loghum/Houte, the Netherlands).
