Lecturer Details: Contemporary Philosophies of Caries Management using the Minimum Intervention Oral Healthcare (MIOC) framework

Lecturer nameProfessor Avijit Banerjee
Lecturer profileQualifications:
BDS MSc PhD (Lond) LDS FDS (Rest Dent) FDS RCS (Eng) FHEA

Current post:
Professor of Cariology & Operative Dentistry; Hon. Consultant, Restorative Dentistry

Short resume of career to date:
Avijit is Professor of Cariology & Operative Dentistry / Hon. Consultant and Clinical Lead, Restorative Dentistry at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London / Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Hospitals Foundation Trust, London, UK. He holds the positions of Chair / Head of Conservative & MI Dentistry and Programme Director of the innovative KCL blended-learning Masters in Advanced Minimum Intervention Restorative Dentistry (open to dentists and therapists globally: google “KCL AMID” for more info). He also leads the Cariology & Operative Dentistry research programme at the QS-ranked world’s top 5 Faculty of Dentistry (as part of the Centre of Oral & Clinical Translational Science), researching, publishing and lecturing internationally about minimum intervention oral healthcare delivery and minimally invasive operative caries management, adhesive dental biomaterials and clinical trials (>130 publications, >£2.5 million research grant income, supervision of 5 post-doctorate, 17 doctorate and 24 masters students to date). He has been appointed to the NIHR Clinical Research Network, as Oral & Dental Health Speciality Lead for South London where he is responsible for the development of primary care clinical trials and their professional / participant recruitment programmes. He acts as an international R&D KOL for many international Industry partners, including GCE / UK, 3M Oral Healthcare, Septodont France / UK, Dentsply Sirona, Colgate and P&G Oral B. Avijit is primary author of Pickard’s Guide to Minimally Invasive Operative Dentistry (9th & 10th editions; OUP, 2015), a definitive and globally respected text in its field, amongst other book editorships (Minimally Invasive Esthetics, Elsevier (2015), Odell’s Problem Solving in Dentistry, 4th ed, Elsevier (2020)) and chapter contributions (including, amongst others, caries management in The Principles of Endodontics 3rd ed, 2019). He is editor-in-chief of Oral Health & Preventive Dentistry (Quintessence Ltd) and an editorial board member of Dental Update, British Dental Journal, International Journal of Adhesion & Adhesives and the Primary Dental Journal. He is a member of the British Dental Association Health & Science Committee also, all whilst maintaining wet-fingered specialist clinical practice in Restorative Dentistry, Prosthodontics & Periodontics. He is the immediate past-President of the BDA Metropolitan Branch London Section (2019-20) and currently holds an Hon. Consultant Advisor post to the Office of the Chief Dental Officer, England.

Experience relevant to the topic:
International clinical academic expert in MI Dentistry

Feedback from other courses given:
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