Ivona Bago, DMD, PhD

Ivona Bago graduated from the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. In 2015 she became a specialist in Endodontics and Restorative Dentistry at the Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb. Since 2010 she has been working at the Department of Endodontics and Restorative Dentistry at the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Zagreb, where in 2013 she won her PhD in the field of laser use in endodontics. In 2014, she obtained a two-year postgraduate master¢s degree EMDOLA (European Master Degree in Oral Laser Application). She is currently working as full-time associate professor at the Department of Endodontics and Restorative Dentistry at the School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb. She also practices endodontics and aesthetic dentistry in private practice in Zagreb.

Since 2020, she is a scientific project manager financed by the Croatian Science Foundation “Clinical and experimental investigation of laser activated photoacoustic streaming and photoactivated disinfection in endodontic treatment”. She is also a course leader in the field of laser use in endodontics at the postgraduate doctoral study at the School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb.

Since 2014, she has been a secretary of the Croatian Endodontic Society and a country representative of the Society at the European Society of Endodontology. She is the author and co-author of many scientific articles published in international journals and is a reviewer for international scientific journals (Journal of Endodontics, Lasers in Medical Science, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine and Laser Surgery, Photodiagnosis and  Photodynamic Therapy, Australian Endodontic Journal). She lectures at many international congresses and annual congresses of the Croatian Endodontic Society and has led training courses in endodontics.