Dental Public Health and Dental Diseases

Associate Professor Leonie Short is the Discipline Lead for the Bachelor of Oral Health degree at CQUniversity, Australia. She has completed a Certificate in Dental Therapy from the Westmead School of Dental Therapy in 1977, a Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy from the NSW School of Hypnotic Sciences in 1983, a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Education and Sociology from Wollongong University in 1986, and a Masters of Health Planning from the University of NSW in 1987. She is a registered dental practitioner, dental therapist in Australia,has numerous publications and research grants in excess of $1m. She is Treasurer and serves on the editorial board of the Australia and New Zealand Journal of Dental and Oral Health Therapy as well as on the editorial board of Australian Options.

Leonie is keen to progress the oral health therapy profession in terms of knowledge and skill development. She is a strong advocate for oral health therapists to assist patients and communities in the prevention, management and treatment of dental and periodontal diseases.

Boyen Huang obtained his DDS degree at Kaohsiung Medical University (Taiwan, 1994) and PhD degree in paediatric dentistry/dental public health at Queen Mary, University of London (UK, 2004), respectively. He is currently appointed as the Head of School of Dentistry and Health Sciences at Charles Sturt University.

1. Craniofacial and orodental development 2. Dental traumatology 3. Behavioural dentistry

Dr Marget's journey began in 1972. Since then he has done clinical hypnosis, chiropractic, myotherapy, orthodontics and implant surgery. His real passion is pain control and orthodontics. Dr Marget graduated from Adelaide University and has worked all over Australia. He loves helping people with bad breath.

Krystal is a qualified dental assistant with a particular passion for educating dental teams. She has been involved in the dental industry for most of her life, witnessing first-hand the ‘behind-the-scenes’ running of her family’s 2 dental practices and working in the industry for more than 14 years. Her passion for the dental world has grown as she has cemented her presence in the online forum with her successful dental blog Extreme Dental Practice.

Dr Sigal Jacobson maintains a private dental practice in Melbourne Australia. She has over 20 years of clinical experience and enjoys the pursuit of teaching and advancing the skills in conservative cosmetic dentistry. Dr Jacobson is the inventor of the patented UVENEERâ„¢ Dental Template System for creating direct composite veneers. The Uveneer was launched in February 2014 in Australia, USA and globally thereafter. The system is a unique way to create predictable polished restorations and has stirred great interest from thousands of dental offices worldwide along with an array of key opinion leaders as well as distributers. Jacobson has contributed clinical case studies and interviews to dental magazines including Dentistry Today, Australasian Dentist Magazine and Bite Magazine and has appeared on Australian national television. She lectures domestically and internationally on conservative cosmetic dentistry techniques using the Uveneer System . Jacobson is a fellow of the American Academy of dental facial esthetics and a member of the Australian Dental Association, Australian Academy of Dental Facial Aesthetics, the American Academy of Cosmetic .

Lise Slack is an International speaker, clinical dental hygienist, published author, inventor/developer/patentee of two oral care products and director of the charity i-Hope. The love of teeth comes from her dentist dad in South Africa which is also Lise’s country of birth and education. Lise spent five years in the UK working for SmithKlein Beecham promoting/distributing Amoxil antibiotics for prevention of dental bacterial endocarditis. At the same time Lise was in the project designing/marketing the brand/logos for Corsodyl Chlorhexidine Gluconate 2mg/ml antimicrobial mouthwash. Eleven years ago Lise, her husband and two young daughters immigrated to Australia where she continues the battle against periodontitis and peri-implantitis. Lise has written several articles on the long term maintenance of the periodontal health and dental implants. After three decades of data collecting from her patients she invented the unique X-Floss and XRibbon now available in several countries. Lise’s innovative character and passion for the work as dental hygienist has opened doors to see Lise speak/teach at international dental/hygiene conferences on implant/perio maintenance. Lise is an active member of the Dental Hygienists’ Association in Australia. Lise is also passionate about rescuing orphans and her charity i-Hope is currently building their second safehouse in Asia.

Geoff Parkes is a founder and director of the Australian College of Dental Education. The college was established in 2013 to provide dental graduates and practicing dentists with post-graduate level business education. Students can elect to undertake study towards formal post-graduate qualifications, or else enrol in individual subjects of their choosing. All study is conducted on-line over 15-week semesters, and features high-level interaction for students with highly qualified educators and dental professionals across a variety of disciplines. Geoff’s background includes an MBA from Monash University, and many years of healthcare experience with GE Medical Systems and as Director of Equipment for Henry Schein Halas in Australia. Geoff is also a Director of Dental Advantage Consulting Group, and is committed to helping dentists align the objectives of ethical and profitable dentistry, with optimal patient health outcomes at the forefront. He owns and operates two successful dental practices in Australia, and has had numerous articles published in the dental industry press relating to the business of dentistry.

Dr. Kazuhiko Nakano completed his D.D.S. degree at Osaka University and received a Ph.D. from Osaka University. Later, he was appointed as Chief of the Outpatient Clinic of the Pediatric Dentistry Clinic, Osaka University Dental Hospital. More recently, Dr. Nakano became Professor of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry as well as Head of the Pediatric Dentistry Clinic of Osaka University Dental Hospital. Dr. Nakano is a trustee of the Japanese Society of Pediatric Dentistry, and a member of the International Association of Dental Research. He has authored and co-authored many original research articles and clinical reports, as well as several book chapters in the field of pediatric dentistry and clinical oral microbiology.

Terry Whitty is the owner of Truline Dental, a Specialist Dental Laboratory in Sydney that he has run for over 21 years. He is a skilled technician and lectures regularly nationally and Internationally on a variety of subjects including Orthodontic Appliance Construction , Dental Material Science and Laser Welding. He is also the Technical editor for eLaborate Magazine, Australia's leading Dental technology publication which he has over 30 articles published on a variety of dental subjects.

Alex have over 20 years’ experience across multiple industries, from hands on IT between 1991-2000, to IT recruitment and owning/running to his own recruitment company from 2006. In 2014, utilising his experience gained both in the UK and Australia, with his business partner he formed Dental Prac Sales, a fully licensed business brokering company specializing in Dental Practices, citing a consolidation in the industry along with strong demand from both sellers and buyers, both local and from overseas. Having established strong relationships with both corporate and individual buyers, Dental Prac Sales is rapidly becoming the first stop for anyone buying or selling a dental practice in Australia.

Dimosthenis Mantokoudis has completed his graduate studies at the University of Berne, Switzerland. After his doctor thesis in the field of Periodontology at University of Berne and several years in private practice he completed the postgraduate program of Prosthodontics at the Department of Prosthodontics, University of Berne and was appointed in the same department as an Assistant Professor and Research Coordinator. His activities, both in clinical practice and clinical research, cover the field of oral Implantology and implant Prosthodontics. Dimosthenis initiated with the support of the Global Microsurgery Foundation and in collaboration of the University of Hong Kong a novel type of postgraduate course in implant dentistry with the strong focus on clinical training in part-time delivery at a new purpose built teaching facility: The Australian Institute of Dental Education and Research - AIDER. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland and appointed from the Global Microsurgery Foundation as Chief Executive Officer of the AIDER.

Dr. Said has been teaching at the School of Dentistry since his January 6 arrival from the University of the Pacific’s Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry where he served from 2009 as associate professor in the Pathology and Medicine Department, and director of the Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Laboratory and Clinical Oral Pathology and Medicine. He had previously served as the director of the oral and maxillofacial pathology laboratory at the University of Alabama, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and at UAB School of Dentistry where he closely collaborated with the departments of otolaryngology head and neck surgery and oral and maxillofacial surgery. He has been managing clinical oral pathology/oral medicine patients for over 15 years. Dr. Said received his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from Marquette University's School of Dentistry and a Master of Science degree in oral biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed two residencies in oral and maxillofacial pathology: one at the University of Illinois at Chicago and another at Long Island Jewish Hospital. He also completed an advanced Head and Neck/ENT pathology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. As part of his academic leadership and involvement, Dr. Said has spearheaded numerous research studies, has presented numerous national and international continuing education courses, is a member of 16 professional societies (including being on the past executive council of the North American Society of Head and Neck Pathology) and currently is on the council of the American Academy of Oral Maxillofacial Pathology. He sits on a dozen councils and committees (including past chair of the finance committee for The American Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology), serves as a reviewer for eight academic journals that address oral, head and neck pathology, and sits on the editorial board of three other publications. He also serves on the American Dental Association’s National Board part II test construction committee. For personal and political reasons, Dr. Said left Iraq in 1985, after completing four years of dental training at the University of Baghdad College of Dentistry. He is most grateful to Marquette University School of Dentistry, Milwaukee, for accepting his translation of his personal transcript copies from Arabic—a trust that permitted him to begin dental school there as a freshman and earn his DDS in 1989. Dr. Said has a seven-year-old daughter, nine-year-old fraternal twins (boy and girl), and an eleven-year-old daughter. He expresses joy regarding his marriage to Neda, a stay-at-home pharmacist who spends much of her time guiding their four children through the early years and caring for Dr. Said’s elderly mother and father who have resided with them for the last 18 years. When life normalizes and some injuries heal, Dr. Said would like to resume playing soccer and practicing Martial arts.

Dr. S. Prabhu, Senior lecturer in oral bio-dental sciences is an oral pathology and oral medicine specialist with about 30 years of teaching experience in different parts of the world. Dr. Prabhu has published scientific papers in international professional journals and authored chapters and edited books in oral medicine, oral diagnosis and oral and maxillofacial anatomy/histology for dental undergraduate and postgraduate students. Dr. Prabhu is a Fellow of all four surgical colleges in the UK and Ireland and is an examiner for the membership examinations of the faculty of dental surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Neil O’Brien-Simpson has an interdisciplinary background, combining organic and peptide chemistry with microbiology and immunology to develop novel vaccines and therapeutics and investigating the immune response to pathogens. Thus his field of research is in chemical biology/immunology and host/pathogen (bacteria/fungi) mucosal interaction. He was originally trained in biological sciences and management at Edinburgh Napier University (Edinburgh, Scotland) and worked at I.C.I Chemicals and Polymers Division (Grangemouth and Runcorn) as a research organic chemist. In 1993 he was awarded an Overseas postgraduate research scholarship and a CRC for vaccine technology scholarship to study for his Ph.D at The University of Melbourne, Department of Microbiology and Immunology. During his Ph.D he was trained in peptide chemistry and immunology and developed in his thesis a method of producing a multi-valent peptide vaccine, which resulted in several publications and a patent. After being awarded his Ph.D he went to the Melbourne Dental School, The University of Melbourne, to do postdoctoral research with Eric Reynolds on the development of a vaccine against the bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis a causative agent of periodontitis. At the Melbourne Dental School A/Prof O’Brien-Simpson has established a peptide/organic chemistry laboratory and a microbial-immunology laboratory to conduct research into AMPs, vaccines and bacterial immunity. He was part of a team in 2003 and 2009 that was awarded a Co-operative Research Centre grant for establishing the CRC for Oral Health Science and Oral Health CRC, respectively served as a Program Leader (2003-2009) and currently as a Project Manager for vaccine design and therapeutic development. For the past 3 years (2011-present) he has been a member of the Australian Dental Research Foundation (ADRF) research awards committee that awards grants and scholarships pertaining to oral and dental research. A/Prof O’Brien-Simpson has published over 50 peer reviewed journal articles and is an inventor on 11 patents, 6 of which have been licensed. Further his research into vaccine design and periodontitis has resulted in Neil being awarded: the Colgate Prize for Dental Research (1999), The IADR Hatton Award (2000) and the Oral Biology Award (2003). In 2003 he was awarded a CR Roper Fellowship and in 2004 he became program co-leader for the Novel Diagnostics, Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals Research Program in the newly formed Co-operative Research Centre for Oral Health Science.

He is currently engaged in several research programs, notably in Design, development and delivery of sub-unit vaccines, Understanding the mucosal immune response to bacteria. How microbes and their products e.g. outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) interact with mammalian cells. Synthesis of antimicrobial peptides to combat microbial infection and targeting antibiotic resistant bacteria. Nanomaterial and particles for vaccine and drug delivery.

Professor Paul Tipton is an internationally acclaimed Specialist in Prosthodontics who has worked in private practice for more than 30 years. He is the founder of Tipton Training Ltd, one of the UK’s leading private dental training academies and the author of over one 100 scientific articles for the dental press. He was voted in the Top 20 ‘most influential dentists in the UK’ by his peers in Dentistry Magazine in April 2012, the leading Prosthodontist in the poll and was voted in the top 5 dentists in Private Dentistry’s Elite 20 poll, January 2012.

Dr. Dave Singh is the Founder of the field of pneumopedics and craniofacial epigenetics, including epigenetic orthodontics, having realized a few years ago that there is a natural way for the body to remodel the upper airway, reshape bone and move teeth into their correct positions painlessly without the use of surgery, drugs or injections. Dr. Dave Singh was born, educated and trained in England, UK EDUCATION D.D.Sc. Orthodontics, Dundee University, UK. Ph.D. Craniofacial Development, Bristol University, England, UK. B.D.S. Dental Surgery, Newcastle University, England, UK. Validated as Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.M.D.) University of Puerto Rico, USA.

Lynette Wallace graduated from University of Sydney in 1994 with Honours. She has been in private practice in Bowral since 1994. She takes a multi-diciplinary approach to patient care, studying both in the USA and Australia in orthodontics and neuromuscular dentistry and kinesiology. She is currently enrolled in the MClin Dent program with BPP University City of London. Her key area of interest lies in looking at the whole body physiological coherence and its links with mouthbreathing and dental caries, using biofeedback computer monitoring.

Dr. Yi-Hao Huang is the vice president of Dr. Signal Biotechnology. He is also the Director of Dr. Huang's Periodontology and Dental Implant Specialty Clinic, a part-time clinical instructor at National Taiwan University Hospital, Department of Periodontology, Taipei, Taiwan. He belongs to the scientific staff of the Laboratory for Applied Periodontal & Craniofacial Regeneration, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, USA since 2004. Dr. Huang is an executive officer of administrative commitees for Taipei Congress of Oral Implantologists (TCOI). Dr. Yi-Hao Huang received his DDS from Kaohsiung Medical University Dental School, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (1997) and an MS in Oral Biology from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA (2003). He also received certification for advanced training in Periodontology at Temple University School of Dentistry in 2003. Dr. Yi-Hao Huang focuses his research on tissue engineering evaluating applications of bone morphogenetic proteins for implant dentistry within the Laboratory for Applied Periodontal and Craniofacial Regeneration, National Defense Medical Center and National Taiwan University Hospital. He has been working with Dr. Xin-Wu Mi and Ming-Cheng Li in stem cell clinical applications since 2010. He gives lectures frequently in great China region focusing dental implant and stem cell clinical applications.

Hatem A. Alhadainy, BDS (Egy), MSD (Restorative, Egy), PhD (Endo, Egy-USA), MS (Epidemiology, USA) is a professor and Chairman of Endodontic Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Tanta University. His work was concentrated on Endodontic research with extension in periodontology and Epidemiology. Dr. Alhadainy finished his Bachelor (1982) and Master degrees (1989) from Tanta University, Egypt and PhD degree as a channel program between Tanta University and University of Memphis, USA (1995). He also earned a MS Degree from Colorado State University, USA (2006). He is currently the Chairman of Endodontics Department in Tanta University from Aug. 2013. He was course director of postgraduate courses for several years. Dr. Alhadainy published more than 40 researches in National and International journals and reviewed several articles for international journals. He also presented researches in several international conferences including: Memphis, Chicago, Dallas (USA), Damarcus (Syria), Budapest (Hungary), Florence (Italy) Sanaa (Yemen) and Egypt.

Dr. Nabeel Al Nahass is the Head of Department at the Super Dental Specialty Center, Ajman, UAE and has also been the Assistant Professor of Fixed Prosthodontics at the college of Dentistry, Gulf Medical University. He is the Consultant “A” for Fixed Prosthodontics. Dr. Nabeel Al Nahass has a promising career in Dentistry and has been Chairperson for various College and hospital Committees.