| "Above all I want to live, live a life filled with events that will, I hope, place providence on my path, and not end up as so many others have on a long, gray road in a world and a life that does not know the winding roads that help you develop your morals; if I face great crises, which life may have in store for me, then I shall be less unhappy than another man, because I want to know everything. In short, I am arrogant. Is that wrong of me, I believe not; it can bring me bitter disappointments, but may bring me success."
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Dr Bart is officially called B.F.M.L. van de Ven. He was born in Heerlen in 1961. After completing his secondary education at the Bernardinus College in Heerlen, he went on to study dentistry and later medicine in Utrecht.
For his specialization, he worked in the department for oral and maxillo-facial surgery at the Utrecht academic hospital for two years, in general surgery in Arnhem and Utrecht (Diakonessenhuis) for three years, spent 8 months working in plastic and reconstructive surgery and the Maastricht academic hospital, and 1.5 years in the Mund, Kiefer und plastische Gesichtschirurgie (oral, maxillo-facial and plastic facial surgery) department at the Academic hospital in Aachen, Germany. He has two children, Anne and Peppino, and lives in Amsterdam and Marbella. | 
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