Paediatric dentistry
Professor of paediatric and special-needs dentistry at Cairo University, with 25 years of experience with children with autism, Down syndrome and cerebral palsy.
About the professor
Prof. Ahmed Elkhadem
Professor of Paediatric DentistryConsultant Orthodontist
BDS, MSc (Cairo), MSc (Oxford), MSc (Warwick), PhD · FOrthRCSEd · MOrthRCSEng · MOrthRCPSG
He studied in Cairo, Oxford and Warwick, and holds orthodontic fellowship and memberships of the UK Royal Colleges of Surgeons. He founded Mira Dental Center in Maadi in 2005 to bring children’s dentistry, orthodontics and a general-anaesthesia unit together in one place.
Cairo UniversityProfessor and Vice Head, Evidence-Based Dentistry Centre
25 yearswith children and special-needs patients
Four roles
Clinician, professor, researcher and teacher
Orthodontics
Consultant orthodontist with the Edinburgh fellowship and the England and Glasgow memberships, and founder of Graphy Egypt for printed aligners.
Evidence-based dentistry
Professor and Vice Head of the Evidence-Based Dentistry Centre, Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine, Cairo University.
Teaching dentists
President of the Egyptian International Orthodontic Association (EIOA), founder of Mira Dental Academy, and director of the MOrth and MPaed Dent preparation programmes.
The team
Who works with Prof. Elkhadem
Treatment under general anaesthesia is team work: a paediatric dentist and a paediatric anaesthetist.
Prof. Ahmed Elkhadem
Professor of paediatric and special-needs dentistry, Cairo University. Plans and carries out the dental treatment.
Assoc. Prof. Bassant Nagy
Associate professor and consultant in paediatric dentistry, Cairo University.
Dr Karim El-Khalfawy
Lecturer and consultant in paediatric anaesthesia, Cairo University. Gives the anaesthetic and monitors the child until recovery.
Mira Dental Center
What the centre provides
The centre focuses on the professor’s two specialties, with general dentistry for the rest of the family.
- Children’s dentistry — prevention, fillings, crowns, pulp treatment and general anaesthesia.
- Graphy clear aligners — and fixed braces for the cases that need them.
- Special-needs care for children and adults.
- Adult dentistry: fillings and root canal treatment, cleaning and whitening, and implants.
For fellow dentists
Courses and referrals
Prof. Elkhadem runs clear-aligner courses for dentists. The centre accepts referrals of children who need general anaesthesia and of special-needs patients, and returns the patient to the referring dentist after treatment with a report of what was done.
Refer a patient
Send the patient’s age, the diagnosis, any radiographs, and the reason for referral.