Bennett T. Amaechi BDS, MSc, PhD, FADI
Dr. Bennett T. Amaechi, BDS, MSc, PhD, FADI, is an Associate Professor and the Cariology expert in the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Dental School, Texas. After obtaining a masters degree in prosthetic dentistry and dental implantology at Guy’s Hospital, London in United Kingdom (1993), he then completed his PhD degree in Cariology at the University of Liverpool School of Dentistry in United Kingdom (1999). He directs the Cariology course, Caries detection clinic, and teaches various aspects of clinical preventive dentistry, caries management, dental erosion and caries diagnostics to the dental students, dental residents, and graduate students of biomedical engineering. His research emphasis is on dental caries, with particular interest in caries clinical trials, evidence based dentistry and development/evaluation of anticaries agents and caries diagnostics. He has published extensively in the scientific literature, including book chapters. He is a member as well as officer of numerous professional organizations and serves on several national committees.