Endodontics — Risks, Consequences and Outcomes

Speakers for this event

• Dr David Figdor

  Dr David Figdor

  BDSc, LDS, MDSc, FRACDS, Dip Endo, FPFA, PhD, FASM

  Dr David Figdor has over 30 years clinical experience as a specialist in endodontic practice in central Melbourne. He graduated with a BDSc in 1980 and a Masters Degree in the field of Endodontics in 1984, both from Melbourne University. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (RACDS) in 1985 and a year later was the first Endodontist in Australia to be awarded a Diploma in Endodontics, a highly specialised qualification of the RACDS. Research conducted over more than a decade with collaborators at the University of Umeå, Sweden led to a PhD in 2002. David’s primary research interest is in the field of endodontic microbiology. He is a Fellow of the Australian Society for Microbiology and has been a visiting scientist at Monash University where he has collaborated on research with others. He is a contributor to 2 books and has authored or co-authored more than 40 scientific papers in the endodontic literature. More than half a dozen of these papers are highly cited in the endodontic literature and two are independently reported in the top 10 most-cited papers in the field of Endodontology.

  BDSc, LDS, MDSc, FRACDS, Dip Endo, FPFA, PhD, FASM