Norbert Salenbauch, born in 1949, studied from 1971 to 1976 in Tübingen where he got his degree, and then in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, until 1978. There he also developed the main focus of his professional activity, namely periodontics and restorative dentistry. Since 1980 he has been sharing a private practice with two friend colleagues in Göppingen. Parallel to this, until 1994 he was Lecturer of prosthodontics, periodontics and occlusal science at the Tübingen University. He has written many publications and has given many lectures on these topics as well as on patients’ preventive care and implantology. In the field of removable partial prostheses, the so-called “stable base” technique, also learnt in Ann Arbor with Professor Clayton and since then further developed from a practical viewpoint, has become one of the topics presented by him in conferences and courses. From 1993 to 2014 he established a 5-part annual course on patients for dental surgery assistants to remedy the shortcomings of dental hygienists. Since September 2000 he has been recognized as a specialist for periodontology of DGP. In 2008 he started his activity as a professor in the master in periodontology and implantology of DGP. In 2017 he published, together with the dental technician Jan Langner, a book on the “Stable Base” technique published by Quintessenzverlag, entitled Stable Base, die prothetische Versorgung von Grenzfällen (Stable Base, the prosthetic solution of borderline cases).

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