Oman Dental College

Prof Ismaili was a founder of ODC. Prior to being appointed as an Interim Dean, he served ODC as an Executive Director, Head of Oral Disease and Chair of the Postgraduate Committee. He is actively involved in the didactic and clinical teaching of oral surgery and oral medicine including implantology.

He received his dental degree from the University of Alexandria in 1982, completed his MSc in Oral Surgery at the University of Bristol in 1986. He was trained as an Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon at Glasgow and undertook fellowship training in craniofacial surgery at Adelaide. He is a Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, a Fellow of the Faculty of Dentistry of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine), a Fellow of the International Team of Implantologists and a Fellow of the College of General Dentistry in the UK.

He served at the Ministry of Health for over three decades where he was a senior consultant in OMFS, the former chief of dental services, chaired and participated in many committees and was also the founder and former chairman of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program under the Oman Medical Specialty Board. He has also participated as an examiner for the Membership examinations of the Royal Colleges in Oman, Egypt, UAE and India.

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