Naoki Aiba, CDT, graduated from the Dental Technology Program at the Dental School of Aichi Gakuin University in Nagoya, Japan in 1982. He completed the postgraduate ceramics course at the Tokai Dental Technicians School in 1986. He received the “Young Speaker of the Year Award,” in 1989. In 1992, Mr. Willi Geller selected Mr. Aiba to be a member of Oral Design. He has lectured, conducted hands-on courses, published in more than thirty countries on ceramics, dental photography, dentist-laboratory communications. As a professional photographer, he has published and exhibited his photographs around the world. He currently serves as a member of editorial board for the SpectrumDialogue and QDT, and is a technical advisory board member of the Monterey-Bay Salinas Study Club (division of Seattle Study Club). While he maintains his laboratory, Science Art, Inc. in Monterey, California, USA, he offers hands-on seminars at his teachnig facility, Oral Design Monterey.