• NEW FACES
• Jan 2023
• Bulletin

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Academic Staff Joins the Dental Family

The Faculty extends warmest regards to newly joined academic staff and wishes them a great beginning and life at HKU.

Dr Fok obtained a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Dental surgery (BDS), and was awarded Distinction when accredited the Master of Dental Surgery (MDS) in Periodontology from HKU. She also attained a Speciality Membership in Periodontics from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at HKU to which her research interests are in clinical periodontology and implant dentistry.

“Due to the Faculty’s academic prowess and top international standing over the years, I believe there is no better place to pursue my goals. I am very blessed to have received my basic and advanced dental education and training from this Faculty,” Dr Fok said. She also expressed that her experience with dedicated educators and researchers in the Faculty positively impacted and even inspired her to become an educator herself. She stated, “I hope to pass on the torch and make positive impacts on students as a teacher and to contribute to the body of knowledge in the field of dentistry as a researcher.”

Recently, Dr Fok has been shuttling between Prince Philip Dental Hospital and Institute for Advanced Dentistry Multi-Specialty Clinic to deliver didactic and clinical teaching to BDS and Taught Postgraduate Programmes students in Implant Dentistry. She also delivers teaching in the European Federation of Periodontology’s accredited postgraduate education programme in Periodontology. She said that her research is largely based on peri-implant and periodontal health and disease; and the application of autologous blood concentrates in healing, dental implant rehabilitation, dental implant material and design. Dr Fok mentioned, “I am currently leading multinational clinical trials on dental implants. I also look forward to having new collaborations with faculty members, particularly basic scientists and engineers, on cognate topics; and expanding collaboration on an international scale to carry out pilot/clinical trials of novel diagnostics and treatments on patients.”

Besides having a strong passion for periodontal and implant research, Dr Fok loves cooking and baking for her friends and family. With that, she forges an unusual relationship with the bacteria, our “foe and friend”. She experiments with the fermentation of various food and sauces using different bacteria. She also likes to travel and collect marine gemstones around the world.

One of Dr Fok's interests is travelling.