After qualifying from Guy's Dental School, London, UK (UMDS) in 1993, Avijit currently holds a Chair in Cariology & Operative Dentistry / Hon. Consultant and Clinical Lead, Restorative Dentistry at King's College London Dental Institute at Guy's Hospital (and Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals' Foundation Trust). He is Head of Conservative & MI Dentistry, Associate Director of Education (UG) and has pioneered and established as Programme Director, an innovative KCL distance-learning Masters in Advanced Minimum Intervention Dentistry (please google "KCL AMID" for more info on the programme open to practising dentists and dental therapists worldwide). He also leads the Cariology & MI Operative Dentistry research programme at the DI as a principal research investigator (with grant income in excess of £1 million, and a significant clinical and scientific research output in terms of peer-reviewed publications, masters / doctorate research in the disciplines of cariology, minimum intervention / minimally invasive operative dentistry and adhesive dental biomaterials). Indeed, he acts as an R&D KOL for many dental industry partners in these areas. Avijit is an internationally renowned lecturer and primary author of Pickard's Guide to Minimally Invasive Operative Dentistry (Oxford Univ Press, 10 ed, August 2015), a definitive and globally respected text in its field. He has written chapters in several highly regarded textbooks and is editor of the new Vol 3: Minimally Invasive Esthetics (Elsevier). His latest project (in collaboration with his MSc programme described above) is to edit an "MI Dentistry Toolkit" manual for the oral healthcare team which guides the team on how to actually implement MI Dentistry into an ethical, profitable day-to-day practice. He is an editorial board member of Dental Update, British Dental Journal, Primary Dental Journal & International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, serves on the British Dental Association's Health & Science Committee, helping to guide the Association's policy, all whilst maintaining wet-fingered UK specialist practice in Restorative Dentistry, Prosthodontics & Periodontics.