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Dr. David Tay graduated from the University of Singapore with a BDS in 1979 and later pursued postgraduate training in Prosthodontics from 1981-1984 at Northwestern University, Chicago. He attained his specialist certification in prosthodontics in 1988 (MOH) and was a former full-time faculty member in the Department of Restorative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore (1984-1993). During his tenure at NUS, Dr Tay was involved in both the undergraduate and postgraduate prosthodontic teaching programmes and was instrumental in setting up the Dental School’s Integrated Core Curriculum in Occlusion and the Faculty’s Orofacial Pain Unit.

He founded Dr David K L Tay & Associates in 1993 and continued to serve as a Visiting Consultant in Orofacial Pain and Prosthodontics for the Singapore Armed Forces until August 2007. His private practice focuses on interdisciplinary occlusal rehabilitation, the management of Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD), headache & chronic orofacial pain, and caring for patients with sleep disorders, especially bruxism and sleep-related breathing disorders.

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore and has the distinction of belonging to both the Chapter of Prosthodontists, College of Dental Surgeons, and the Chapter of Sleep Medicine Physicians.

In 2015, he established the NUS Edmund Tay Mai Hiong Endowed fund in honour of his late father who was the founding Dean of the Dental School and a Professor of Prosthodontics. The NUS endowment and the annual ETMH Distinguished Speaker Programme serve to not only introduce sleep medicine to the local dental profession, but also to raise public and medical community awareness of dentistry’s emergent role in the early recognition, prevention and co-management of many sleep-related disorders, not only Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA).

Dr. Tay currently serves as a committee member on the Singapore Dental Sleep Medicine (DSM) Research and Training Advisory Group. This committee was tasked by its 4 sponsoring bodies i.e. National University of Singapore Faculty of Dentistry, National University Centre for Oral Health, Singapore, National Dental Centre Singapore, and SingHealth Duke-NUS Sleep Centre to plan Singapore-wide DSM curricula as well as to develop the requisite education and clinical expertise for dental sleep medicine practice. He is also a member of the Scientific & Educational Committee of the World Dentofacial Sleep Society. He has been Academic Advisor to the International Sleep Academy since its inception. He has published in biomedical journals, served on their editorial boards, contributed to prosthodontic textbooks and given many presentations and courses on Occlusion, Prosthodontics, Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) and Sleep Dentistry both locally and overseas.

He holds memberships in several professional organizations including the International College of Prosthodontists, American Equilibration Society, American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, World Sleep Society, and is a Life Member of the Pain Association of Singapore.

 

He has held leadership positions in numerous national and international societies and is Past-President of the Prosthodontic Society of Singapore and former Chairman of the Chapter of Dental Surgeons, Academy of Medicine Singapore. He was also former Chairman, Specialist Certification Subcommittee on Dental Specialties and Convenor, Committee for Advanced Training in Prosthodontics, Academy of Medicine Singapore. His continued participation in academia has been in the role of external examiner for PhD and MSc research projects conducted in the Department of Restorative Dentistry, NUS.

His role as Clinical Director of the T32 Dental Group’s Specialist Division, is but the logical extension of his personal commitment to the development of evidence-based dentistry in Singapore and the region.

Dr Tay continues to be a keen golfer who has made pilgrimages to courses like St. Andrew’s, Gleneagles, K Club, Valderrama, Cape Kidnappers and Pebble Beach.

 

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