Dr Araz Ahmed

After qualifying as a dentist in 2007, I spent the formative 3 years of my career working in fulltime Primary Care. Following this, I dedicated my clinical career to Oral and Maxillofacial surgery. This included roles in public sector government hospitals and private sector practice. I believe that it was my time working in the field of Oral & Maxillofacial surgery that served as a spark to aim toward addressing fundamental biological questions such as how to optimize to post-surgical healing process or how to stimulate regeneration. My search for knowledge led me to doing a unique and novel course, where I was proudly a part of the founding class of the MSc in Regenerative Dentistry at King's college London in 2014. My unsatiated interest in Oral & Maxillofacial regeneration drove me to earn a highly competitive international fully funded PhD scholarship by King's College London in 2015. Upon completion four years later, I find myself having gained deep cutting-edge insight into craniofacial stem cells and their regenerative functions in Oral & Maxillofacial region. 

Following this, I gained invaluable clinical experience in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery as a Clinical Fellow and then as a Senior Clinical Fellow in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in secondary care with the NHS since 2020. My current clinical interests are head and neck skin cancer surgery & reconstruction, trauma, minor oral surgery, wisdom tooth extraction, management of medically compromised patients and oral medicine. In addition to my current duties as a Clinical Lecturer, I am still privileged to work as a locum Specialty Doctor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Secondary Care in NHS. 

Qualifications

BDS, MSc (KCL), PhD (KCL), MFDS RCS (Edinburgh)

Bachelor of Dental Surgery 2007: Hawler Medical University 

MSc in Regenerative Dentistry 2014: King's College London

Overseas Registration Exam (ORE) 2019: (GDC-UK)

PhD in Craniofacial Stem Cells and Maxillofacial Regeneration 2020: King's College London

The Diploma of Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery (MFDS) of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 2021

Currently enrolled for PGCert in Clinical Education: University of Plymouth

Professional membership

General Dental Council (GDC) - Full Registration no:283828

Member of the Faculty Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh

Member of Association of British Academic Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons (ABAOMS)

Member of British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB)

Teaching interests

I have interests in clinical and preclinical teaching of, amongst others:

• Facial Skin cancer Surgery and reconstruction
• Oral & maxillofacial trauma  
• Oral Surgery
• Oral medicine
• Craniofacial Stem Cells 
• Maxillofacial Regeneration
• Salivary gland tumors
• Salivary gland regeneration 
• Managing medically compromised patients
• Surgical removal of Wisdom teeth
• Embryology
• Communication skills

Research interests

Maxillofacial Regeneration, craniofacial stem cells, salivary gland tumors, salivary gland regeneration, skin cancer, oral medicine, clinical and preclinical aspects of Oral & Maxillofacial surgery.  

Other research

Clinical Audit and quality improvement studies