Dr. Landaeta was born in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. In 2002, he obtained his dental degree from the GMA University at Barcelona, Venezuela. He worked at the Luis Razetti University Hospital with a cleft lip and palatal charitable foundation adjoined to the Maxillofacial and plastic surgery department (Fundamigos HLP ? Barcelona, Venezuela) providing treatment to low income patients with dentofacial deformities. In 2004, he was accepted to do an Advanced Training (Fellowship) in Maxillofacial trauma at the Penitenca Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil under the mentoring of Dr. Sylvio de Moraes.