We have our annual ‘Specialist Dental Group’ gathering at the end of every year. November 29 is the date for this year’s dinner celebration. This is just one of the little traditions that we have at our company. What is the soul of a community? What is the soul of a football team? What is…
It has been a rather busy few weeks. I was an external examiner for the National University of Singapore during the last week of October. The first part of the examination was officially completed on Friday afternoon, October 31, 2014. A few hours later, I was ferried to Johor Bahru, Malaysia to attend a dinner…
I am getting some home run(s). I am visiting my parents in Hong Kong this weekend. So I call it a home run weekend. I will be running with my high school classmate KC, a seasoned marathon runner, early on Sunday morning before sunrise, followed by another run with my high school cross-country team boys…
As of September, 2014, the National University of Singapore (NUS) was ranked 22nd among all the universities in this world – this places NUS as the number one university in Asia. My alma mater, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has been moved down a bit to 28th ranking, making it the number 3 university…
Monday afternoons are my teaching time. In addition to my Monday afternoon schedule, I occasionally receive some minor teaching assignments on other days of the week. I would say that on average, I spend approximately three quarters of a day every week at the National University of Singapore (NUS). When I first moved to Singapore,…
2014 is the year of World Cup soccer and the year of the Commonwealth Games. I did not watch the World Cup this year for various reasons but I managed to catch a little bit of the Commonwealth Games on TV from time to time. My little girls at home love it as they are…
About a month ago we had a little reunion of Northwestern University Prosthodontics alumnus. Northwesten University alumnus form the largest group of American-trained prosthodontists in Singapore. In our training, a big portion of our work was based on classical literature in Prosthodontics. Believe me in this, there is such a thing as ‘classical literature’ in…
I was completing my dental studies between 1985 to 1990. That was an important period in my life as it was the time I knew that I would be going to the University of Hong Kong (HKU) like my other three elder sisters. I am sure that this period was crucial to my parents too:…
I have been practicing dentistry in the specialty area of prosthodontics since 1992. When we started off in 1990 in the dental implant arena, we were mostly treating patients with totally no teeth and the total treatment time took close to a year. Of course, nowadays, with better understanding of the science, our treatment time…
The last few weeks constituted a great month! A great productive month. My two colleagues, fellow prosthodontist, Dr Steven Soo, and our nurse, Siti Aminah, at Specialist Dental Group (SDG) welcomed the addition of two cute baby girls to their respective families. I am certainly proud of them. This is another proof that we are…
Bits and Bites from Dr Ansgar Cheng 