CV
Bio:
Chairman of Pediaric Dentistry and Orthodontic Department
DR. AHMED ESSAM ALMAHDY
EDUCATION
BDS (Bachelor in Dental Sciences & Oral Surgery) 2003 – Collage of Dentistry, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
MClinDent in Paediatric Dentistry 2009 – Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
•Passed with Merit degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 2013 – Dental institute, King’s College London, London, UK.
• Passed without corrections
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• April 2015 till now: Chairman of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontic Department
• September 2013 till now Assistant Professor in Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, College of Dentistry, King Saud University.
• June 2005 - September 2013 Demonstrator in Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics, College of Dentistry, King Saud University.
• August 2004- June 2005 Working as general dentist in Dr. Saud Orthodontic Clinics.
• Jul 30th 2003 to Jul 18th 2004: (12 months internship) Worked as General Dentist and in the Emergency Dental unit in King Saud University. 3 months was spent in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery department in Riyadh Medical Center.
• June 23rd to Aug 22nd 2002: Dental Student Summer Program, Medical Service Organization, Dental Department, Saudi Aramco.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• International Association of Dental Research (IADR): since 2009.
• British Society for Oral and Dental Research (BSODR): since 2009
• Saudi section of the IADR: since 2009.
• Saudi Dental Society (S.D.S.) & Saudi Dental Journal (S.D.J.) since 2003
PUBLICATIONS
• Almahdy A, Koller G, Festy F, Bartsch JW, Watson TF, Banerjee A. (2015). An MMP-inhibitor modified adhesive primer enhances bond durability to carious dentin. Dent Mater. 2015 May;31(5):594-602.
• Almahdy, A., Koller, G., Sauro, S., Bartsch, J. W., Sherriff, M., Watson, T. F. & Banerjee, A. (2012). Effects of MMP inhibitors incorporated within dental adhesives. Journal of Dental Research, 91, 605-11.
• Almahdy, A., Downey, F. C., Sauro, S., Cook, R. J., Sherriff, M., Richards, D., Watson, T. F., Banerjee, A. & Festy, F. (2012). Microbiochemical analysis of carious dentine using Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy. Caries Research, 46, 432-40.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
• Dissolution of Glass Ionomer Sealant “GC Fuji Triage” a Preliminary study (Poster Presentation), the 3rd Saudi International Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 5th – 6th June 2009 • Dissolution of a Glass Ionomer Sealant Immersed in Different Acids (Poster Presentation), BSDR Scientific meeting, Glasgow, UK, 1st – 4th September 2009.
• Chemical Analysis of Carious Teeth Using Raman Spectroscopy (Poster Presentation), Biophotonics Meeting, KCL, London, UK, 8th June 2010
• Research Update to Septodont (Oral Presentation), Barcelona, Spain, 17th July 2010
• Chemical analysis of carious dentinal tissue using microRaman spectroscopy (Poster Presentation), IADR 89th general session, San Diego, California, USA 16th -19th March 2011
• Raman Analysis meeting, (Oral presentation), KCL, London, UK, 30th March 2011
• Chemical analysis of carious dentinal tissue using microRaman (Oral presentation), KCL, London, UK, 1st April 2011
• Chemical analysis of carious dentinal tissue using microRaman spectroscopy (Oral presentation), The Annual Dental Institute Postgraduate Research Day, KCL, London, UK, 13th April 2011
• In-vitro characterization of the physico/chemo-mechanical properties of novel resin-based adhesives and tooth tissue (Oral presentation), KCL, London, UK, 3rd June 2011
• The Effect of MMP Inhibitors on Dental Adhesive Systems (Oral presentation) KCL, London, UK, 9th September 2011
• The Effect of MMP Inhibitors on Dental Adhesive Systems (Oral presentation), BSODR 2011, Sheffield, UK 12th -15th September 2011
• MicroRaman spectroscopy analysis of carious dentine (Poster Presentation), Frontiers in BioImaging, Manchester, UK 20th -21st September 2011
• MicroRaman spectroscopy analysis of carious dentine (Poster Presentation), ConsEuro Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey 13th-15th October 2011
• The effect of MMP inhibitors incorporated within dental adhesives (Oral presentation), The Annual Dental Institute Postgraduate Research Day, KCL, London, UK, 3rd April 2012
• Biochemical analysis of carious dentine using Raman spectroscopy (Oral presentation), IADR/PER Congress 2012, Helsinki, Finland 12th -15th September 2012
• B3 Journal club (Oral presentation), KCL, London, UK, 29th October 2012
SCIENTIFIC AWARDS
• Best Poster for the "Operative Dentistry" category in ConsEuro Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey 13th-15th October 2011.
• Excellency award from the Royal embassy of Saudi Arabia, 31st March 2013.