Specialist-led. Not businessman-led.
Most dental tourism clinics hide their surgeons behind generic team photos. Ours are named, credentialed, and independently verifiable through the academic and regulatory bodies themselves.
Dr. sc. — DMD, PhD
Co-founder · Clinical lead, prosthetic restoration. Supervises every full-arch implant case before discharge.
Prof. dr. sc. — DMD, PhD
Co-founder · Lead implantologist. Personally performs and supervises every All-on-4 case at Ars Salutaris.
Dr. sc. — DMD, PhD
President of the Croatian Dental Chamber. Co-founder of Ars Salutaris.
Dr. Pezo has served as President of the Croatian Dental Chamber (HKDM) since 2007 and represents Croatia as National Liaison Officer at the FDI World Dental Federation. He sits on multiple European dental regulatory bodies including the Council of European Dentists in Brussels and serves as Vice President of the Croatian Medical Association.
He earned his Doctor of Dental Medicine at the University of Zagreb (1998), completed specialization in dental prosthetics (2008), and a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Rijeka (2017). Clinical focus: prosthetic rehabilitation and CAD/CAM-driven restorative dentistry.
As co-founder of Ars Salutaris, he led the clinic's sustainability initiative that received the FDI World Dental Federation's Sustainability Award in Sydney, 2023 — making Ars Salutaris the first Croatian dental polyclinic recognized by the FDI for environmental practice.
Prof. dr. sc. — DMD, PhD
Head of Removable Prosthodontics, University of Zagreb. Co-founder of Ars Salutaris.
Prof. Ćelić is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Removable Prosthodontics at the University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine — one of Croatia's oldest and most established dental schools.
He is an accredited European Expert in Implantology through BDIZ EDI (Germany, 2017) — a certification requiring at least 5 years of clinical focus on implantology, documentation of 400+ placed implants and 150+ prosthetically restored implants, and an oral examination before a European expert panel.
His research on implantology and prosthetic rehabilitation has been cited 900+ times in international scientific publications. Clinical focus: complex prosthetic rehabilitation, implant-supported prosthetics, and temporomandibular disorders (TMD).
At Ars Salutaris, Prof. Ćelić personally performs and supervises every All-on-4 case. For higher-complexity full-arch surgery he leads directly; for standard single-implant cases an associate implantologist trained under his protocol may perform the placement, but Prof. Ćelić reviews and signs off on every case before discharge.
Joint authority
Pezo and Ćelić co-founded Ars Salutaris in 2008 with a simple operating principle: every credential a patient relies on should be independently verifiable by the regulatory body that issued it. Every source on this page links to its issuing institution — HKDM, the University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine, BDIZ EDI Germany, FDI World Dental Federation, and the Croatian Parliament's public CV record.
Ready when you are
Book a free 30-minute consultation. Depending on your case, you'll be reviewed by Dr. Pezo (for prosthodontic and full-arch cases) or Prof. Ćelić (for implant-supported cases) — or by our broader specialist team for routine matters.
No deposit. No commitment.
