28/05/2023
✨Introducing Dr Amanda Phoon Nguyen ✨
Our Oral Medicine Specialist in Darwin
Dr Amanda Phoon Nguyen has been consulting in the Darwin practice since 2019. She accepts patients for the full range of Oral Medicine, including oral mucosal pathology, salivary gland diseases, temporomandibular disorders, orofacial pain, and dental sleep medicine.
Before undertaking specialist training in Oral Medicine at the University of Western Australia, Amanda graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Dental Science, served in the Royal Australian Navy as a Dental officer, and worked in public and private dental practice in Western Australia. Her Oral Medicine training involved roles at the Oral Health Centre of Western Australia, Sir Charles Gairdner’s Hospital Head and Neck Cancer Multidisciplinary Team and the Perth Children’s Hospital.
Amanda has published in and serves as a reviewer for several peer-review journals and is a reviewer of Continuing Professional Development content for the Australian Dental Association. Her research interests include orofacial pain, temporomandibular disorders and paediatric oral medicine. She is Editor of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (RACDS) College News, holds Membership in the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (General Stream) and serves as a mentor in the MRACDS program. In 2017, she completed her Certificate of Advanced Dental Leadership.
Amanda holds current positions on the ADA WA Dental Continuing Professional Development committee, the Western Australia regional committee for the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and is Treasurer of the International Association for Dental Research (WA). In her spare time, she volunteers for the Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Women in Dentistry Healing Smiles program for domestic violence victims.
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