Dr Abdel Rahman Tawfik is Assistant Professor of Oral Surgery at the Hamdan Bin Mohammed College of Dental Medicine, MBRU. He has sound academic and clinical background in Oral Surgery and has over 20 years of experience in the field of Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine.
He graduated from King’s College London and obtained a PhD on the prediction of oral cancer from the Eastman Dental Institute. He’s worked as a consultant oral surgeon in the UK at NHS hospitals for over 15 years. Dr Abdel Rahman has a postgraduate diploma in conscious sedation from King’s College, University of London. He also has vast experience in pain management, dealing with anxious patients and manage a variety of oral surgery cases under conscious sedation. He actively, contributes to the training of junior dentists in oral surgery, teaches at the Royal College of Surgeons of England “Primary Care Oral Surgery”, and regularly lectures in international meetings.
Dr Abdel Rahman has a special interest in the following subjects:
- Surgical removal of impacted wisdom teeth
- Jaw and salivary glands cysts
- Facial pain and axiety management
- Mouth ulcers and precancerous lesions diagnosis and treatment
- Maxillofacial infections management
- Dental implants and maxillary sinus surgery
- Conscious “moderate” sedation and managemnt dental phobia
- Orthodonic surgery (frenectomy, tongue tie, canine exposure etc)
He is fluent in Arabic and English and happy to accept patients referral at his clinic at the HBMCDM from Saturday to Tuesday.
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor in Oral Surgery
Hamdan Bin Mohammed College of Dental Medicine, MBRU, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, UAE
FGDP tutor for the Diploma in Minor Oral Surgery
The Royal College of Surgeons England, UK
Senior Clinical Teacher in Oral Surgery
King's Dental Institute, King's College & Guy's Hospitals London
Professional Education
DipConSed
King’s College London Department of Sedation & Special Care Dentistry, UK
FFD RCSI
The Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, UK
MFD RCSI
The Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, UK
LDS RCS
King’s College Dental School and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
PhD
Eastman Dental Institute; London, UK
Teaching
- Currently, responsible for the teaching and training or oral surgery residents, reponsible for providing and training IV (conscious sedation), teach and contribute to the basid and advanced implant course to all residents in prosthodontics, periodontics and oral surgery.
- He also runs teaching and training course for nurses to be certified as assistant in conscious sedation.
- He is a tutor for the Certificate of Minor Oral Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Tutees watch at least 25 cases of varying MOS conditions, then operate on at least 25 MOS cases under my supervision, and do a minimum of 25 MOS cases on their own. He teaches surgical skills in a laboratory using sheep heads.
- Previously, he provided training to junior dentists (DF1 & DF2) in all aspects of oral surgery under LA and GA. he also trains them on the management of anxious patients under IV sedation
- He taught Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology & diagnosis to both undergraduate & postgraduate students for more than 15 years in both the UK and Middle East.
- Regularly he is invited as a speaker at the International Dental Congress of Alexandria and Tanta universities.
- Previously, he organised several scientific seminars and participated in clinicopathological conferences at the Eastman Dental Institute and Mount Vernon Hospital, England.
- He ran regular training courses for 3 years in Oral Surgery for dental nurses at the Ora-Dental Group.
- He has produced and presented TV programs (for Arabic viewers) on Dental Implants and Oral Surgery in London.
- He attends regular CPD teaching courses at King’s College and the British Association of Oral Surgeons, which has helped in fine-tuning his teaching skills.
Honors and Awards
JOEL Japan
Conference Award for XI th International Congress on Electron microscopy; Kyoto, Japan. Aug‑31 – Sep-7, 1986. Phagocytosis of Melanin Granules by Mast Cells. An Ultrastructural Study. Tawfik A M et al Proc Int Cong on Electron Microscopy. 11: 3547-3548
Government Research Fund (Scholarship Award)
Mission Department, Egypt. Award of £70,000 for funding research project in Oral Premalignancy, at the Eastman Dental Institute London WC1X 8LD
Publications
Membership of Professional Bodies/ Associations
- British Association of Oral Surgeons
- Royal Society of Medicine, London
- Association of Dental Implants (ADI)
- British Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons.
- Fellow Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland.
Research Interests
- Oral premalignancy
- Anxiety management using moderate sedation
- Methodods in canine exposure for orthodontic management
- Management of oral lesions using CO2 laser
- Varying surgical techniques for wisdom teeth
- Alternative techniques to bone augmentation for dental implant placement
- Minor salivary gland cysts in children
- Computer image analysis
Clinical and Community service
- 2012-present – Consultant Oral Surgeon, BMI Hendon Hospital, Hendon, London, UK
- 2012-present – Director of Oral Surgery Ltd; providing primary care oral surgery services
- 2011-2016 – Consultant Oral Surgeon, Royal South Hants Hospital, UK
- 2011-2015 – Senior Specialist Clinical Teacher in Oral Surgery, King’s Dental Institute, University of London. UK
- 2013-present – Consultant Oral Surgeon, Specialist Dental Services, 94 Harley Street, London, UK
- 2013-2016 – Consultant Oral Surgeon, Align and Smile, Unit 6 New Providence Wharf, Blackwall Way, UK
- 2012-2016 – Consultant Oral Surgeon, Senova Dental Studios, 10 Beechen Grove, Watford, Hertfordshire, UK
- 2008–2011 – Specialist Oral Surgeon, King’s College Hospital, Department of Oral Surgery, Bessemer Rd., UK
- 2002–2007 – Consultant In Oral Surgery, Edgware Community Hospital Burnt Oak Broadway, Edgware, Middlesex, UK
- 1997–2006 – Trust Oral Surgeon, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Vicarage Road, Watford, UK