Amrita faculty member, Dr. Arun Mamachan Xavier, Reader, Paediatric Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi, received the “Young Pedodontist Research Award 2017”, in the recently concluded 39^th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry (ISPPD), held at Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai from 13^th to 16^thSeptember, 2017.

The conference aimed to provide an unparalleled national forum to bring together scientific, clinical and public health experts, practitioners, students to present, discuss, challenge and learn from the latest work and advancements on Pediatric dentistry.

This award was conferred to Dr. Arun by the ISPPD in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of Pediatric dental research and his valuable contributions to the speciality. Dr. Arun was also an invited Guest speaker in the same conference and lectured on “Prenatal health and care as risk factors to poor oral health and well-being of children: An Update”.

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