Professor Avijit Banerjee

Title: Minimum intervention oral care (MIOC) – managing caries and restoring teeth in primary care

Aims and Objectives:

• To define minimum intervention oral care (MIOC) delivery for contemporary caries management in primary care
• To describe the principles and caries guidelines supporting minimally invasive operative dentistry (MID)
• To outline the bio-interactive restorative materials available to restore deep carious lesions

GDC Outcomes: C and D

Biography:
Avijit is Professor of Cariology & Operative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences (FoDOCS), King’s College London, UK and Hon. Consultant, Restorative Dentistry, Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Hospitals Foundation Trust, London, UK. He currently holds three international honorary chairs as well as being a member of the Board of Trustees of the UK Oral & Dental Research Trust (ODRT).

In 2022, he was awarded the prestigious William H Bowen Caries Research Distinguished Scientist Award from the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) in recognition of his global scientific and clinical research impact in cariology & minimally invasive operative dentistry over the last 25 yrs.

In 2024, the UK British Dental Association bestowed upon him the John Tomes Medal, one of its most esteemed professional accolades, to honour his clinical academic and scientific services and achievements to the profession and the BDA.

In his discipline of cariology & operative dentistry (minimum intervention oral care (MIOC) & minimally invasive dentistry (MID), biomaterials science, clinical trials and national / global policy), he has authored 5 internationally acclaimed textbooks (including “Pickard’s Guide” and now its successor, “A Clinical Guide to Advanced Minimum Intervention Restorative Dentistry”, Elsevier 2024), 13 book chapters, >180 peer-reviewed papers (H index 56, citations: 11,325 to date) and has supervised 50 doctorates & masters’ students.