Alaa Bani Hani

Dr Alaa Bani Hani is a consultant in paediatric dentistry at Kings College Dental Hospital. She is the chair of the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry Teacher’s Branch and the South East Branch.

Alaa obtained the Bachelor Degree in Dental Surgery in 2006. Following that she worked as a General Dental Practitioner for three years before she obtained her clinical masters in Paediatric Dentistry in 2010. In 2016, she was awarded PhD in Peadiatric Dentistry from School of Dentistry, University of Leeds-UK. Following that she was appointed as NIHR funded a Clinical Lecturer and Specialty Registrar in Paediatric Dentistry at University of Leeds and Leeds Dental Institute in 2017-2021. Alaa became a specialist in paediatric dentistry in 2021 and a consultant in 2023.

Alaa Bani Hani is a regular speaker at national and international conferences and is a referee for a number of international journals including the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry, International Association of Dental Traumatology and International Association of Paediatric Dentistry. She has more than 17 peer-reviewed publications mainly in the field of dental caries prevention and arrest as well as dental trauma. Her most recent publication ‘Minimal intervention dentistry for managing carious lesions into dentine in primary teeth: an umbrella review’ has contributed to the development of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry guidelines on caries management in children. Alaa is a co-author on these guidelines; Best clinical practice guidance for treating deep carious lesions in primary teeth: an EAPD policy document. Duggal M, Gizani S, Albadri S, Krämer N, Stratigaki E, Tong HJ, Seremidi K, Kloukos D, BaniHani A, Santamaría RM, Hu S, Maden M, Amend S, Boutsiouki C, Bekes K, Lygidakis N, Frankenberger R, Monteiro J, Anttonnen V, Leith R, Sobczak M, Rajasekharan S, Parekh S. European Archive of Paediatric Dentistry. October 2022.

Alaa was awarded the first poster prize at the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry in Turin-Italy (2017) for her PhD work and the second poster prize at the Health Education England Academic Presentation Day in York (2017) for Clinical Lecturers category for her collaborative research project “Raised in Yorkshire: Supporting School Children to Undertake Oral Health Projects”. The latter won the University of Leeds Public Engagement award for doing research in partnership in 2017