Brief Biography:
GCSE 1994
BDS 1999
PhD 2006
Academic positions:
Assistant Professor of oral anatomy
Research interests:
- Three and two-dimensional photogrammetry for applications in craniofacial anthropology, forensic sciences, craniofacial dysmorphology and in planning and assessing surgical and orthodontic treatment.
- Chronobiology: applications in maxillofacial and tooth development.
- Chronology of maxillofacial and dental development in cleft patients and other craniofacial abnormalities
- Dynamic relationship between dental occlusion and the temporomandibular joints.
- Prevalence and quantitative analyses of developmental anomalies of teeth.
- Quantification of face and dental arch symmetry.
- Water fluoridation and enamel hypoplasia and hypomineralization
- Quantification of biological forms (size and shape)
- Facial bony and soft tissue profilometry (using Fourier shape analysis)
- Quantification of biological curved outlines
- Relationship between skin colour and tooth shade
- Relationship between anterior facial height and bite force and tooth morphometry
- Relationship between bite force and oral tori and exostoses.
- Quantification of tooth and arch morphology in prehistoric middle eastern skulls
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