Dental Institute students receive inaugural scholarship from Oral-B, Denplan and GC Europe

The first Patricia Santos Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to Dr Duvie Raju and Dr Mark Sykes, students in the final year of their master’s in Advanced Minimum Intervention Dentistry (AMID) at King’s College London Dental Institute.

Denplan, Oral-B and GC Europe jointly provide up to £9,000 for each AMID cohort. The scholarship is created in memory of the late Patricia Santos, who was enrolled on the very first cohort of the programme and who epitomised all that is best about the profession. The award is made to a student or students who have excelled clinically and academically up to their second year of the course.

Professor Avijit Banerjee, the programme originator and director, said: ‘With high profile industry partners supporting our innovative programme, we have a firm foundation for the minimum intervention oral healthcare philosophy being on the global oral health agenda, now and in the future. The oral healthcare industry, profession, patients and our students will all ultimately benefit tremendously from such support and collaboration.’

Roger Matthews, the retiring Chief Dental Officer of Denplan said: ‘Quite simply, MI dentistry is a perfect fit for Denplan’s own philosophy of patient-centred care with the emphasis on prevention. We have been working with Professor Avijit Banerjee and other MI experts for many years now, providing opportunities to promote MI principles within the industry and enabling Denplan members to benefit from their experience and knowledge of the subject. The master’s programme is a logical progression that offers those with a keen interest in putting learned MI concepts into practice to do so with the support of a tremendous team of experts.’

Further information about the Advanced Minimum Intervention Dentistry MSc at King’s College London is available at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught-courses/advanced-minimum-intervention-dentistry-msc.aspx