About BBeiroot Academy

Educating the Clinicians Who Define the Field

A Beirut-based postgraduate academy bringing internationally accredited dental education to the practising clinician — without asking them to leave their practice behind.

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Our Story

BBeiroot Academy was founded on a simple observation: the gap between what a dentist learns at university and what modern practice demands has never been wider — and closing it should not require leaving the region, or leaving your patients, for a year.

We built an academy in Beirut that brings European postgraduate education to the Middle East. In partnership with the University of Genova, we deliver internationally recognised postgraduate diplomas in Implantology, Digital Dentistry and Periodontology — taught here, in modular form, around the working life of a practising clinician.

Hands-on session at BBeiroot Academy
Founder

Dr. Salim Abu Esper

Dr. Salim Abu Esper founded BBeiroot Academy on a conviction shaped by years spent working closely with dental professionals across Lebanon and the region: that access to world-class postgraduate education should never be a matter of geography. He saw clinicians with real ambition held back not by talent, but by the cost and disruption of studying abroad — a year away from their practice, their patients, their families.

BBeiroot Academy is his answer to that gap: a partnership with the University of Genova that brings a genuine, internationally accredited postgraduate diploma to Beirut, taught in a modular format that respects the realities of a working clinician's life. Under his direction, the academy has built a training centre equipped to the same standard as the institutions it partners with, and assembled a faculty of practising specialists and university professors who teach the way they operate — rigorously, and with their hands.

His philosophy is simple: an academy should be judged by what its graduates can do the Monday after they leave it. That standard shapes every decision made here, from the curriculum to the equipment to the faculty invited to teach it.

Our Mission

To raise the standard of clinical dentistry across Lebanon, the GCC and the wider Middle East by giving practising dentists access to rigorous, evidence-based, hands-on postgraduate education without asking them to step away from their practice.

Our Vision

To be the reference point for postgraduate dental education in the region — the academy whose graduates are recognised for the quality of their clinical judgement, not only for the certificate they hold.

How We Teach

Educational Philosophy

Three principles shape everything we teach.

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Evidence Before Technique

Every protocol we teach is grounded in literature the participant reviews themselves. We teach the reasoning, not only the steps.

Evidence Before Technique
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Hands Before Eyes

Watching a procedure is not learning it. The majority of contact time in our courses is spent with instruments in hand, under supervision, with specific feedback.

Hands Before Eyes
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Monday Morning Relevance

Each module is designed so that what is learned can be applied in practice the following week — not after a further year of study.

Monday Morning Relevance
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Our Facilities

Our training centre in Jnah, Beirut is equipped for the full digital workflow — intraoral scanning, CAD design, milling and 3D printing — alongside a surgical laboratory for hands-on regenerative and mucogingival practice, and clinical facilities for observed live procedures.

Clinical training at BBeiroot Academy
Global Partnerships

Awarded By the University of Genova

Our postgraduate diplomas are awarded by the University of Genova, Italy, with transcripts of records legalised by the Italian government. Teaching faculty is drawn from members of the University of Genova and from accredited international specialists in each discipline.

Admissions Open

Advance Your Dental Career Today

Applications are reviewed individually by our academic committee. Places in each cohort are limited to preserve the quality of hands-on teaching.