Professor Aubrey Sheiham has died
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- Published: Wednesday, 30 December 2015 08:52
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Aubrey Sheiham, professor emeritus of dental public health at University College London died in November at the age of 79. A controversial figure he first made headlines through a paper in the Lancet which concluded that there was little evidence to support the six-monthly dental check-up. He believed that he was vindicated by the NICE guidelines in 2004.
He was born in South Africa and studied dentistry in Johannesburg. In 1958 he went to London, and after a few years at the London Hospital Medical College moved to UCL in 1984 as professor of Dental Public Health. By the time of he retired in 2001 as professor emeritus he had 264 publications to his name. After his retirement he published a further 242 papers. He supervised 52 PhD students from 20 countries.
Aubrey received many awards, including honorary doctorates from the University of Athens and University of the Western Cape. In 2015 he received the Distinguished Scientist Global Oral Health research award from the International Association of Dental Research. But after his 1977 paper he was threatened with being reported to the General Dental Council for bringing the profession into disrepute.
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