After graduation cum laude in 1987, Mario Roccuzzo attended the department of periodontology in Stockholm and a postgraduate course at the University of Siena. He has been lecturer in Periodontology both at the University of Torino and Siena, and he is a member of the attending staff in Department of Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Torino. He is an active member of the Italian Society of Periodontology and the Italian Society of Osseointegration, an ITI fellow, a member of the ITI University Programs Committee, and the ITI Study Club director in Torino. Reviewer for Journal of Clinical Periodontology, Journal of Periodontology, International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Implants, International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry. He serves on the editorial board of Clinical Oral Implants Research and the International Journal of Esthetic Dentistry.
He has lectured extensively in Europe, Russia, South Africa, Americas, Far East. Awarded for the best clinical presentation on implants in periodontally compromised patients at the 2009 EAO Congress in Montecarlo and for the best published research article on the same subject by the DGP (German Society of Periodontology) in 2010. Winner of the 2013 Osteology Clinical Research Prize on Long-term stability of soft tissues around implants following ridge preservation.
He maintains a private practice limited to Periodontology and Implantology in Torino.