Prof. Natasa Ihan Hren, MD, DMD, PhD, graduated from the Ljubljana Faculty of Medicine in 1987 and of Dentistry in 2015, Master of Science Degree (1991), PhD Degree of maxillofacial and oral surgery (1999), Specialty Board of maxillofacial and oral surgery (1995), Prof. of maxillofacial and oral surgery since 2010, head of the Faculty Department of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, Medical faculty Ljubljana, Slovenia, since 2003. She is sub specialized in orthognathic surgery.
She is lecturer, research project coordinator, and advisor. Current research trials are in the field of basic oral pathology (periimplant bacteria and periimplantitis, cytokine characteristics of odontogenic cysts and other chronical oral inflammations) and in the field of facial skeleton (bone healing, osteoporosis) and ortognathic surgery with three-dimensional clinical and research implications.