Norbert Salenbauch studied dentistry at the University of Tübingen, where he received his doctorate in 1977. Until 1978, he completed a postgraduate program in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, where he developed his clinical and scientific focus in periodontology and restorative dentistry under S. Ramfjord, M. Ash, and J. Clayton. From 1980 to 1994, alongside his work in a group dental practice, he served as a lecturer at the University of Tübingen in the fields of prosthodontics, periodontology, and occlusion. Numerous publications document his primary focus on periodontology, in which he is recognized as a specialist of the German Society of Periodontology (DG PARO). For 20 years, he directed a practical course in dental hygiene to help address the shortage of dental hygienists in his region. From 2007 to 2017, he led the master’s module Periodontal Prosthetics within the DG PARO Master Program. Until 2022, he remained clinically active on a part-time basis at the successor practice of Drs Hänssler, Winterer and colleagues.