Peter Wetselaar graduated as a dentist in 1986 at the School of Dentistry of the University of Amsterdam. Since then, he is running a General Private Practice in the small town Heemstede together with his wife and colleague Miranda Wetselaar-Glas. Since 2007, the General Practice in Heemstede is a referral practice as well for Temporomandibular Disorders and Orofacial Pain, Dental Sleep Medicine (e.g., Sleep Bruxism and Sleep Apnea) and Tooth Wear.

Between 2004 and 2007 he followed the postgraduate programme in Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction at the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), under supervision of dr. Jacques van der

Zaag and prof. dr. Frank Lobbezoo. In 2016, he defended successfully his PhD thesis: “The Tooth Wear Evaluation System: development and applications” at the University of Amsterdam.

He is a member and officially recognized as a dentist specialized in Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction by the Dutch Society for Gnathology and Prosthetic Dentistry since 2007.

Since 2011 he has also been partly affiliated with ACTA, where he held various positions, such as Head of the Orofacial Pain Clinic, Programme Director of the Postgraduate Master’s Programme Oral

Health Sciences, and Chair of the Department for General Oral Health Care. He currently works as an Associate Professor and senior staff member at the sections Restorative and Reconstructive Dentistry and Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction.