MedSmile
Featured specialist
Dr Nikoloz Lortkipanidze
Maxillofacial surgeon, implantologist, clinic director
- Experience26 years of clinical practice
- SpecialityMaxillofacial surgeon and implantologist
- MembershipCurrent member of the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (IAOMS) and the European Association for Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery (EACMFS)
- PracticeMany highly complex operations performed successfully
Our specialists
Specialists by discipline
Prosthodontics
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Qualifications
- Education
- David Aghmashenebeli University of Tbilisi, Faculty of Dentistry (2014–2019)
- Residency in prosthodontics, New Dent LLC (2020–2022)
- State certificate in prosthodontics (2023)
- Training
- Idea Academy — prosthetics on implants
- Experience
- Univers Dental — assistant in prosthodontics (2015–2022)
- Univers Dental — prosthodontist (2023 to date)
- Med S clinic — prosthodontist (2023–2025)
- MedSmile — prosthodontist (2025 to date)
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Qualifications
- Education
- State Medical University — Bachelor's degree in dentistry (2018–2023)
- New Dent dental clinic network — prosthodontics (2024–2025)
- Dentiveri XXI — surgical dentistry / oral surgery (2025)
- Experience
- Brace House dental clinic — dental assistant (2019–2021)
- Bela Dent dental clinic — dental assistant (2023–2024)
- Gigi Makharadze dental clinic “Tsedexi” — dental assistant (2024 to date)
- MS DENT — prosthodontist (2026 to date)
- MedSmile — prosthodontist (2026 to date)
Orthodontics
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Qualifications
- Education
- School No. 2 (2004–2016) — gold medal for graduating with distinction, awarded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia
- Faculty of Dentistry, Tbilisi State Medical University (2016–2021)
- President's Scholarship (rank 1) in all ten semesters
- Residency (2021–2023) at the A. Urushadze Dental Clinic, Tbilisi State Medical University (Prof. Nato Mosemghvdlishvili)
- Training
- Dr Youliia Velentii — Beyond Braces (2026)
- Dr Dania Tamimi — Radiographic Diagnosis of the Craniofacial Complex for Dentistry (2024)
- Diana Boangar — TAD biomechanics, treatment of the sagittal, vertical and transversal plane malocclusions (2024)
- Sebastian Baumgaertel — TAD Biomechanics (2022)
- Perio and Peri-implant Studio — N. Abashidze's course in periodontology (2021–2022)
- K. Mardaleishvili Medical Centre — orthognathic surgery (2018–2019)
- Conferences
- PerioTbilisi 2021 (2021)
- Tbilisi International Conference, Radix (2021)
- Tbilisi International Ophthalmology Conference, TIOC (2019)
- Conference “Autoimmune diseases and vaccination” (2019)
- Conference “Challenges of modern dentistry and rational ways to meet them” (2019)
- Experience
- MedSmile — orthodontist (2026 to date)
- Painless Dentistry dental clinic — orthodontist (2026 to date)
- Medius dental clinic — orthodontist, temporomandibular joint physiotherapy and rehabilitation (2022 to date)
- Dens dental clinic, Batumi — orthodontist (2022–2024)
- GlobalMed multi-profile clinic — orthodontist and professor's assistant (2023–2024)
- Medius dental clinic — junior doctor and professor's assistant (2021–2022)
- Dental World dental clinic — professor's assistant (2020–2023)
- High Technology Medical Centre — doctor's assistant (2019)
- Mardaleishvili Medical Centre — clinical practice (2018, 2019)
- Publications
- Co-author of the Georgian edition of Contemporary Orthodontics (William R. Proffit) (2025)
- Co-author of the article “Biodegradable adhesive tissue glue”, presented at the Tbilisi International Ophthalmology Conference, TIOC (2019)
Periodontology
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Therapeutic dentistry
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Qualifications
- Education
- Faculty of Dentistry, Tbilisi State Medical University — qualified dentist (2019–2024)
- Residency programme at Dentiveri XXI dental clinic in therapeutic dentistry (2024–2025) and oral surgery (2025–2026)
- Training
- Lika Mebaghishvili — aesthetic restoration of the front teeth using a profile technique (2023)
- TSMU — Communicating with patients (2024)
- GSPI — Evidence-based modern methods of diagnosing and treating periodontitis (2024)
- Dina Galieva — primary and secondary endodontics, with practical use of Occident MTA and bioceramics (2024)
- GSPI — Effective Instrumentation in Modern Periodontology (2025)
- Integration of color and morphology using simplified layering technique (2025)
- GDDA, Salome Maghlakelidze — The endodontic dilemma: treat or extract? (2025)
- GDDA, Nino Korsantia — A recipe for successful restoration: ingredients and technique (2025)
- GDDA — Simple and effective management of complex endodontic cases (2026)
- Elene Kharashvili — Endodontics of primary teeth today: challenges and modern concepts (2026)
- Tea Chubinidze — Managing single discoloured teeth with direct restoration (2026)
- Experience
- MedSmile — therapeutic dentist (2026 to date)
- Royal Dent dental clinic — junior doctor, therapeutic dentist and oral surgeon (2023 to date)
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Qualifications
- Education
- Faculty of Dentistry, Tbilisi State Medical University — qualified dentist (2019–2024)
- Residency programme at Dentiveri XXI dental clinic in therapeutic dentistry (2024–2025) and oral surgery (2025–2026)
- Training
- Radi LLC — retraining programme in radiation safety (2024)
- GSPI — Effective Instrumentation in Modern Periodontology (2025)
- GDDA EXPO 2025 — training (2025)
- Sivrtse 32 — online training: oral manifestations of endocrine disease (2026)
- GDDA — Simple and effective management of complex endodontic cases (2026)
- Elene Kharashvili — Endodontics of primary teeth today: challenges and modern concepts (2026)
- Tea Chubinidze — Managing single discoloured teeth with direct restoration (2026)
- Conferences
- Dentiveri XXI closing conference — topic: “Syndromes that present in the mouth” (2025)
- Georgian International Dental Show — GIDS 2026 (2026)
- Experience
- MedSmile — therapeutic dentist (2026 to date)
- Gvantsa Aniashvili Dental Clinic — therapeutic dentist and oral surgeon (2026 to date)
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Qualifications
- Education
- Faculty of Dentistry, Tbilisi State Medical University
- Residency at Ketevan Gogilashvili's dental centre, subspeciality in oral surgery (2024–2025)
- Experience
- MedSmile — therapeutic dentist for children and adolescents (2025 to date)
- Albius Dental Center — doctor's assistant in children's and adolescents' therapeutic dentistry, orthodontics, prosthodontics and periodontology (2022–2026)
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Qualifications
- Education
- Medical Institute of Georgia — qualified as a physician in dentistry (2001–2005)
- Residency in therapeutic dentistry at the Dentiveri clinical training centre (2009–2010)
- Training
- Preparing and obturating root canals with modern endodontic burs under the endodontic microscope (2025)
- First aid and emergency medical care course for doctors (2025)
- Practical endodontics: errors and complications in working with rotary systems, their prevention and solutions (2024)
- Basic life support (2024)
- Lifelong Aesthetic Restoration with Direct Technique (2023)
- Giomer — the New Concept in Cosmetic Dentistry (2022)
- Invisible Direct Restoration of Anterior Teeth (Easy Flow Technique)
- Lecture in practical endodontics
- Experience
- Dent-Effect dental clinic — therapeutic dentist (2010–2025)
- St Lika Dental Clinic — therapeutic dentist (2015–2018)
- Stomatologi clinic — therapeutic dentist (2019–2022)
- Dentamed dental clinic — therapeutic dentist (2020 to date)
- MedSmile — therapeutic dentist (2025 to date)
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Qualifications
- Education
- Caucasus International University, Georgian-language dentistry programme (2017–2022)
- Residency in therapeutic dentistry at Unident dental clinic and training and research centre (2022–2023)
- Training
- Evergreen Dental Center, Dr Tinatin Topuridze — chemical teeth whitening (2023)
- Tokuyama, Elena Mendosa — Know-how by Tokuyama, options of direct composite restoration (2024)
- Maia Lomsianidze — Simple and effective management of complex endodontic cases (2024)
- Basic life support (2024)
- Oral aesthetics — artistic restoration of the front teeth (2024)
- Maia Lomsianidze — Safe use of endodontic burs for a predictable endodontic outcome (fundamentals of endodontics) (2025)
- Experience
- MedSmile — therapeutic dentist (from 2025)
- Modern Dental — therapeutic dentist (from 2026)
- Dental Clinic 11 — therapeutic dentist (from 2025)
- Sovrano Dent — therapeutic dentist (from 2025)
- Persona dental clinic — therapeutic dentist (from 2023)
- Unident — junior doctor (2023)
- Unident — assistant (2022–2023)
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Qualifications
- Education
- Faculty of Dentistry, Caucasus International University (2017–2022)
- Residency at Albius Dental Center (2023)
- Training
- Clinical practice — Dens dental clinic
- Clinical practice — National Centre of Surgery
- Conferences
- RADIX international congresses (2023 to date)
- “The possibilities of modern dentistry”, Tbilisi (2025)
- “Complications in endodontics”, Tbilisi (2025)
- “Multidisciplinary dentistry”, Tbilisi (2025)
- 20th International Congress of the Georgian Dental Association, Batumi (2024)
- “The periodontist's role in the clinic team — right planning, more benefit”, Tbilisi (2024)
- 12th Tbilisi International Dental Congress, Tbilisi (2023)
- Experience
- MedSmile — therapeutic dentist for children and adults (2026 to date)
- Antropos medical centre — therapeutic dentist for children and adults (2025)
- Albius Dental Center — assistant in therapeutic dentistry and maxillofacial surgery (2022 to date)
- Dentin dental clinic — assistant to a therapeutic dentist (2021)
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Qualifications
- Education
- Faculty of Dentistry, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (2018–2023)
- Residency in therapeutic dentistry at Albius Dental Center — Ketevan Gogilashvili's dental centre (2024–2025)
- Residency in oral surgery at Dentiveri dental clinic (2025)
- Training
- Augma Biomaterials seminar (2019)
- Periodontitis and Peri-Implantitis — biologically oriented minimally invasive treatment (2022)
- iTOP — individually Trained Oral Prophylaxis (2022)
- Tokuyama — treating deep subgingival defects of the back teeth, from isolation to loading in occlusion (2025)
- Integration of color and morphology using simplified layering technique (2025)
- Conferences
- Radix — Tbilisi 12th International Dental Conference (2023)
- Tbilisi 13th International Dental Conference (2024)
- Experience
- MedSmile — therapeutic dentist (2024 to date)
- Medius dental clinic — therapeutic dentist and oral surgeon (2025 to date)
- Albius Dental Center — dental assistant (2023–2025)
- Brace House dental clinic — dental assistant (2021–2023)
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Qualifications
- Education
- Faculty of Medicine, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University — dentistry (2011–2016)
- Residency at the Dentiveri teaching clinical centre, therapeutic dentist and oral surgeon (2016–2018)
- Training
- Root canal treatment under the microscope (2025)
- Prevention and treatment of periodontal disease (2025)
- First aid training (2024, 2025)
- Infection management and control (2024)
- Experience
- MedSmile (2026 to date)
- Margaliti dental clinic (2026 to date)
- Tamar Zukhbaia Dental Clinic (2026 to date)
- Embiesi dental clinic — therapeutic dentist and oral surgeon (2023–2026)
- Smile Dental Clinic — therapeutic dentist and oral surgeon (2021–2025)
- Dent-Effect dental clinic — therapeutic dentist and oral surgeon (2018–2019)
- Medical representative (2017–2018)
- Dental assistant (2016–2017)