Winners Announced
Aesthetic Dentistry MENA Awards 2026
The Wait Is Over
✨ The Legacy Begins ✨
Official Winners & Finalists
UNIVERSITY EXCELLENCE
WINNERS 1st Place – Ajman University 2nd Place – University of Sharjah 3rd Place – Fujairah University |
CLINICS EXCELLENCE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Joy Dental Clinic - Dubai, UAE 1st Place – True Smile Dental Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE 2nd Place – Polar Bear Dental Clinic 3rd Place – Medpalm Dental Clinic |
FINALISTS Dr. Leila Hariri Dental Clinic |
CONSERVATIVE AESTHETIC
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Johnny Helou, USA 2nd Place – Dr. Ali Gibreel, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Keerthana Manoj, India |
FINALISTS Dr. Khadeeja Awan, UAE Dr. Shan Alvi, UAE Dr. Alina Pavlovetc, UAE |
PEDIATRIC PRIMARY
CATEGORY I: COMPREHENSIVE BEST CASE – FILLINGS
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Kristina Poliakova, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Rajesh Bariker, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Nauar Khafaji, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Polina Ganzhara, UAE |
CATEGORY II: COMPREHENSIVE BEST CASE – ZIRCONIA CROWNS
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Eldar Guseinov, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Jessica Briseño Ruiz, Saudi Arabia 3rd Place – Dr. Prriya Porwal, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Anferova Valeriia, UAE Dr. Kristina Poliakova, UAE Dr. Melda Belkhodja, UAE |
CATEGORY III: ANTERIOR PREMATURE LOSS MANAGEMENT – FIXED APPLIANCE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Simran Kaur Sura, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Jai Shankar Pratap, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Afnan Nassar, UAE |
CATEGORY V: POSTERIOR PREMATURE LOSS MANAGEMENT – REMOVABLE APPLIANCE BEST CASE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Rishika Habib, UAE |
PEDIATRIC PERMANENT
CATEGORY I – COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT OF PERMANENT DISCOLOURED BEST CASE – UPPER ANTERIOR
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Maria Makeeva, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Anferova Valeriia, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Tatiana Pestova, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Polina Ganzhara, UAE |
CATEGORY II – COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT OF PERMANENT DISCOLOURED BEST CASE – LOWER ANTERIOR
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Polina Ganzhara, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Alsafa Alzuhairi, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Anferova Valeriia, UAE |
CATEGORY III – PERMANENT POSTERIOR TEETH – BEST CASE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Eldar Guseinov, UAE 1st Place – Dr. Elena Kudriashova, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Jameela Haq, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Mariia Ranzhurova, UAE |
CATEGORY IV – PERMANENT ANTERIOR TEETH – BEST CASE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Ali Gibreel, UAE |
CATEGORY V – MANAGEMENT OF THE SPACE OF MISSING ANTERIOR TEETH (AVULSED OR CONGENITALLY MISSING) – BEST CASE BY FIXED APPLIANCE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Jai Shankar Pratap, UAE |
RESTORATIVE FIXED – BEST CASE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Tomasz Zaranski, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Kamal Kiswani, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Shan Alvi, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Olga Voronets, UAE Dr. Vishakha Gavin Dixon, UAE Dr. Ali Gibreel, UAE |
RESTORATIVE REMOVABLE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Pardis Ghorbani, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Tomasz Zaranski, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Mustansir Moiz Electricwala, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Kamal Kiswani, UAE Dr. Tejomaya Deepak Shastry, UAE |
AESTHETIC ENDODONTIC
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Radhika Kewalramani & Dr. Adarsha M.S., UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Tarandeep Kaur, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Jomana Fayez Alsenan, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Ayad Matta Metry, UAE Dr. Bernice Thomas, UAE Dr. Manizha Rakhmonova, UAE |
IMPLANT TREATMENT
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Mauricio Gomes Taborda & Dr. Sheida Saroughi, UAE 1st Place – Dr. Olga Voronets, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Aleksandr Siniakov, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Timur Bu Dargam, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Eduard Ziganshin, UAE Dr. Neel Pradyuman Shah, UAE Dr. Shan Alvi, UAE |
FULL IMPLANT DIGITAL FLOW
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Mustansir Moiz Electricwala, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Johnny Helou, USA 3rd Place – Dr. Abdelrahman Afia, Egypt |
FINALISTS Dr. Mauricio Gomes Taborda & Dr. Amir Hadjhamou, UAE |
LASER APPLICATION IN MULTI-DISCIPLINARY DENTISTRY
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Neculau Cristina, Romania 2nd Place – Dr. Ramy Tamzouk, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Anna Kofman, Israel 3rd Place – Dr. Yaneeporn Charoensarkviloj, Thailand |
FINALISTS Dr. Mairy Lotfi Aziz Aiad, UAE Dr. Garima Brijmohan Khandelwal, UAE Dr. Mendel Thomas, Romania |
PERIODONTAL TREATMENT
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Geoffrey Sharpe, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Dina Zakaria, UAE 3rd Place – Ms. Jekaterina Burova, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Aleksandr Siniakov, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Walaa A S Alkhatib, UAE Dr. Chyrel Samantha Salian, UAE Mrs. Anna Tkacheva, UAE |
PERIODONTAL TREATMENT BEST CASE / BIOFILM MANAGEMENT / DENTAL HYGIENISTS
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Faten Souki El Jurdi, UAE |
ORTHODONTIC CHILDREN
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Miriam Barbero Rubio, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Nairabiyeh, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Karan Kalra, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Nermien Zbidat, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Vivek Bhaskar, UAE Dr. Tarek Hessin Elbialy, Canada Dr. Urmi Mazumder, UAE |
ORTHODONTIC ADULT
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Vivek Bhaskar, UAE 1st Place – Dr. Samira Diar Bakirly, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Nermien Zbidat, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Krishnan Nair, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Miriam Barbero Rubio, UAE Dr. Nasiiat Velikhanova, UAE Dr. Tarek Hessin Elbialy, Canada |
MAXILLO-FACIAL DEFORMITY
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Natalia Lola, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Neel Pradyuman Shah, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Thea-Marie de Beer, South Africa |
FINALISTS Dr. Tejomaya Deepak Shastry, UAE Dr. Lakshmi Girish, UAE Dr. Maksut Behruzoğlu, UAE |
MINIMAL INVASIVE TREATMENT
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Ayad Matta Metry, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Alina Pavlovetc, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Oleg Mordanov, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Mariia Ranzhurova, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Natalia Lola, UAE Dr. Faten Souki El Jurdi, UAE Dr. Nauar Khafaji, UAE |
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAMWORK
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WINNERS
1st Place – Dr. Leila Hariri & Dr. Maurizio Martini, UAE 1st Place – Dr. Svetlana Prisyazhnykh & Dr. Laura Nogues Rosel, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Nasiiat Velikhanova, Dr. Sachin Shah & Mrs. Anna Tkacheva, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Nur Saadeddin, Dr. Mendel Thomas & Dr. Anca Adam, Romania 3rd Place – Dr. Natalia Lola, Dr. Shan Alvi & Dr. Mustafa Sarikahya, UAE FINALISTS
Dr. Nermien Zbidat, Dr. Nazima Yakubova & Dr. Salah Mahaini, UAE Dr. Vivek Bhaskar & Dr. Kamal Kiswani, UAE Dr. Eduard Ziganshin & Dr. Nasiiat Velikhanova, UAE |
DIGITAL WORKFLOW TREATMENT
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Abdelrahman Afia, Egypt 2nd Place – Dr. Roman Shulga, UAE |
TMD MANAGEMENT FULL-DIGITAL / RADIOLOGY
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Svetlana Prisyazhnykh, UAE |
BRUXISM TREATMENT
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Samar AlKurd, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Manizha Rakhmonova, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Kamal Kiswani, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Svetlana Prisyazhnykh, UAE Dr. Ghalya Alketbi, UAE |
DENTAL HYGIENIST
WINNERS 1st Place – Ms. Jekaterina Burova, UAE 2nd Place – Mrs. Anna Tkacheva, UAE 3rd Place – Mr. Saeed Maskeen, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Ali Gibreel, UAE Ms. Shannon Flack, UAE Ms. Kate Foulis, UAE |
CHARITY TREATED BEST CASE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Abdullah Faris, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Leen Khaled Samih Abdelaziz, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Misbah Mohseen Khan, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Zeina Bashar Estaitia, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Walaa A S Alkhatib, UAE Dr. Mustafa Saad Hassan Fetyan, UAE Dr. Arshia Rashid Baig, India |
STUDENT BEST CASE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Leen Khaled Abdelaziz, UAE 1st Place – Dr. Oras Akram, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Sumaya Al Hashmi, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Tamara Maarouf, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Abdulwadood Alqaysi, UAE Dr. Rim Mohamad El-Cheikh Youssef, UAE Dr. Jana Akoul, UAE |
SCIENCE BY STUDENT POSTER
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Sabah Kamal Baydoun, Lebanon 2nd Place – Dr. Hugo Costa de Sousa, Portugal 3rd Place – Dr. Xena Zaher Alajjawi, UAE (Co-author: Dr. Shahd Omar Elbshari) |
FINALISTS Ms. Aalin Thayani, UAE (Co-author: Ms. Dalia Al Rabeeha) Dr. Maisa Saif Alddin Aladdin, UAE Dr. Abeer Ahmed Mustafa Mohamed, UAE |
SPECIAL NEEDS DENTISTRY
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Ramona Kleinschmidt do Valle, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Ayad Matta Metry, UAE |
PEDIATRIC ORTHODONTICS
CATEGORY I – GROWTH MODIFICATION / FUNCTIONAL ORTHODONTICS – BEST CASE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Era Bansal, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Ekaterina Kuzheleva, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Natalia Lola, UAE |
CATEGORY II – EARLY / INTERCEPTIVE ORTHODONTICS TREATMENT – BEST CASE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Chinnaraju Naveen Kumar, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Elizaveta Kurashova, UAE 3rd Place – Dr. Garima Brijmohan Khandelwal, UAE |
FINALISTS Dr. Samira Diar Bakirly, UAE |
CATEGORY III – CLEAR ALIGNER TREATMENT IN GROWING PATIENTS – BEST CASE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Karan Kalra, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Siju George, Oman 3rd Place – Dr. Natalia Lola, UAE |
CATEGORY IV – COMPREHENSIVE PEDIATRIC ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT – BEST CASE
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Era Bansal, UAE |
EXCELLENCE IN DENTAL RESEARCH
WINNERS 1st Place – Dr. Oleg Mordanov, UAE 2nd Place – Dr. Hristiana Turmanova, Bulgaria 3rd Place – Dr. Olga Vasylenko, UAE |