BDS MSc PhD (Lond) LDS FDS (Rest Dent) FDSRCS (Eng) FCGDent FHEA FICD

Avijit is Professor of Cariology & Operative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences (FoDOCS), King’s College London, UK and Hon. Consultant, Restorative Dentistry, Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Hospitals Foundation Trust, London, UK.  He currently holds three international honorary chairs, as well as being a member of the Board of Trustees of the UK Oral & Dental Research Trust (ODRT).

He holds the following senior national professional positions in the UK: 

• Honorary Consultant Advisor, Office of the Chief Dental Officer, England (2020-), 
• President, British Society of Oral & Dental Research (BSODR; 2025 – 2027),
• Chair, Faculty of Dentists, College of General Dentistry (CGDent; 2024 - 27),
• NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN) Oral & Dental Speciality Deputy National Lead, National Industry Lead, South London RRDN Lead (2021 - ).
• Editor-in-Chief, British Dental Journal Portfolio (BDA & Springer Nature, 2024 - )

In 2022, he was awarded the prestigious William H Bowen Caries Research Distinguished Scientist Award from the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) in recognition of his global scientific and clinical research impact in cariology & minimally invasive operative dentistry over the last 25 years. 

In 2024, the British Dental Association bestowed upon him the John Tomes Medal, one of its most esteemed professional accolades, to honour his clinical, academic and scientific services and achievements to the profession and the BDA. 

In his discipline of cariology & operative dentistry (minimum intervention oral care(MIOC) & minimally invasive dentistry (MID), biomaterials science, clinical trials and policy), he has authored 5 internationally acclaimed textbooks (including “Pickard’sGuide” and now its successor, “A Clinical Guide to Advanced Minimum Intervention Restorative Dentistry”, Elsevier 2024), 13 book chapters, >175 peer-reviewedpapers (H index 56, citations: 11,192 to date) and has supervised 50 doctorates &masters’ students.