Dr. Otto Zuhr studied dentistry at the University of Aachen from 1986 until 1992. In 1992 he received his DMD from the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Aachen.

Several educational programs led him to Switzerland, Scandinavia and USA during the following years. From 1999 – 2008 he worked together with Drs. Bolz, Wachtel and Hürzeler in the Institute of Periodontology and Implantology (IPI) in Munich. 

In 2001 he received his Specialist in Periodontology of the German Society of Periodontology (DGP). Since 2009 he is in professional partnership with Marc Hürzeler. Presently he’s holding an assistant professorship position in the department of periodontology at the University of Frankfurt (Director: Prof. Peter Eickholz).

Otto Zuhr has written several articles in the field of periodontology and is lecturing nationally and internationally.

Since 2007 to 2014 he was board member of the German Society of Periodontology (DGParo). His book “Plastic Esthetic Periodontal and Implant Surgery” was published by Quintessence in 2012.