Dr. Daylene Leong (梁洁敏)

Dr. Daylene Leong is a Dental Surgeon with Specialist Training in Periodontics (gum disease) at Specialist Dental Group. She received her basic dental training at National University of Singapore and specialty training in Periodontology from the University of Michigan, USA. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and also a Diplomate of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists.

Dr Leong is currently a Clinical Tutor at the National University of Singapore. Her previous teaching commitments include being a part-time clinical instructor with the Undergraduate Dental Clinics at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry (2009-2011) and also a part-time clinical instructor at Nanyang Polytechnic’s Dental Hygiene and Therapy Program (2007-2008). She has lectured at conferences, published numerous papers in internationally recognized peer-reviewed scientific journals and has contributed several chapters in a couple of popular dental specialty textbooks.

She was an ad-hoc reviewer for International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry, Clinical Oral Implants Research and Journal of Periodontal Research. Dr Leong was also a Board Member of the Singapore Dental Health Foundation.

Her many academic awards include being the recipient of the Inaugural Dr Benson Duff Graduate Periodontics Memorial Scholarship Award from the University of Michigan, the National University of Singapore Alumni Bursary Award, and a Dean’s Lister and medalist with the South East Asia Association for Dental Education. She was a President’s Girl Guide and has also been actively involved in community services as volunteer with several dental health screening campaigns.

She is a member of American Association of Periodontology, the Academy of Osseointegration and is the current Treasurer of the Society of Periodontology (Singapore). Dr Leong has a special interest in periodontal regeneration, periodontal plastic surgery as well as implant dentistry.