Avijit Banerjee
About
Avijit Banerjee 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:
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 yrs.
In 2024, the UK 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’s Guide” and now its successor, “A Clinical Guide to Advanced Minimum Intervention Restorative Dentistry”, Elsevier 2024), 13 book chapters, >175 peer-reviewed papers (H index 56, citations: 11,178 as of July 2025) and has supervised 50 doctorates & masters’ students.
Lecture
Contemporary deep caries management using MIOC, MID and S3 guidelines in primary care
In his lecture, Prof Avijit Banerjee, from the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London, will outline the modern approaches to deep carious lesion management using the principles of the minimum intervention oral care (MIOC) delivery framework, that include minimally invasive operative dentistry (MID). He will outline the S3 level guidelines on the clinical approach to managing deep carious lesions invading close to the pulp, in an attempt to maintain pulp sensibility, and tooth structure in the primary care setting.
