Kenji Iwaki

Master Dental Technician (CDT equivalent) specializing exclusively in complete denture fabrication. Born in Tokyo (1971). Founder and Director, Dental Labor IDT — a specialist complete denture laboratory in Japan, known for its mastery of technically demanding edentulous cases including severe flabby ridge and morphologically complex mandibular arches. Part-time Lecturer, Department of Dental Technology, Nippon Dental University Tokyo Junior College (since 2016). Certified Instructor, Japan Plate Denture Association — the national academic society for complete and removable denture science. Completed Digital Denture advanced training at the Ivoclar Vivadent headquarters, Schaan, Liechtenstein (2017).

Co-author (with Dr. Jiro Abe, Dr. Tetsuya Sudo, and Dr. Kyoko Kokubo) of the internationally recognized clinical-laboratory textbook Mandibular Suction-effective Denture "The Professional": Clinical and Laboratory Technique for Class I/II/III with Aesthetics (Quintessence Publishing, 2019, 188 pages, 650 illustrations) — a comprehensive step-by-step protocol for the suction-effective mandibular complete denture technique developed by Dr. Abe. Represents the laboratory side of the dentist-technician team workflow that is central to the Abe method's philosophy: that predictable mandibular denture suction requires a perfectly coordinated chairside-laboratory protocol. Lecturer on complete denture fabrication, denture base colorization techniques, and digital complete denture workflows.

Graduated from Nippon Dental University Dental Technology College, Tokyo (1994).