Assoc Prof Stephen Chen is a specialist periodontist at Melbourne Periodontal Specialists in Balwyn. He is also Clinical Associate Professor at the Melbourne Dental School at the University of Melbourne. He graduated BDS (Malaya) in 1983, MDSc (Melbourne) in 1987, FRACDS in 1988 (KG Sutherland Prize) and completed his PhD in 2008.  He is past-president of the International Team for Implantology (ITI), Australian and New Zealand Academy of Periodontists (ANZAP) and Australasian Osseointegration Society (AOS). He is an honorary life member of the AOS and the ITI. For his service to dentistry, dental education and professional groups, Dr Chen was appointed Member (AM) of the Order of Australia in 2019.

Shayne graduated BDS with distinction in 1985 at The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits) and was the recipient of awards for Periodontology, Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery (Lester Brown award), Conservative Dentistry (Bronze medal of South African Dental Association) and Pharmacology (Jan Breyer award). He graduated M Dent in the field of Periodontics and Oral Medicine (Wits) in 1991 and maintained a private practice in Johannesburg and a post graduate teaching position at Wits until 2001. He has served on the committees of the South African society for periodontics and the South African society for dental implantology and was the president of the latter society for a 2 year term. He attained the Australian Dental Certificate in 2000 and has been in full time specialist  practice in Balwyn since 2002. His clinical interests are in the management of periodontitis, both surgical and non-surgical and dental implants. He was a clinical demonstrator in the post graduate clinic at Melbourne University from 2004 to 2019, and has also served as a post graduate examiner at Melbourne University.  He is a fellow of the International Team for Implantology and is a member of Australia New Zealand Academy of Periodontists, the Australian Society for Periodontics and the Australian Osseointegration Society.

Benedicta completed her Bachelor of Dental Surgery in New Zealand in 2005 and was the recipient of the Ivoclar Student Research Elective Award, the New Zealand Endodontic Society Prize, as well as the Robert Lewis Cultural Cup. She went on to work in Mackay for Queensland Health and then moved to practice in both the public and private sectors in Malaysia. While there, she was an active member of the Malaysian Dental Association and served on several branch committees. She returned to Australia in 2011 to complete her training as a periodontist and was then involved as a clinical demonstrator for the dental undergraduate program. In 2013, she completed her Doctor of Clinical Dentistry in the specialty of periodontics. She was awarded the Australia New Zealand Academy of Periodontists’ Medallion prize for her research thesis, which examined the association between haemolytic bacteria and periodontitis. Since completing specialist training, she has joined Stephen and Shayne in private practice in Balwyn. Outside of dentistry, Benedicta enjoys jewellery making, yoga, baking, and music. She has also obtained her Licentiate and Associate in Piano Performance from Trinity College of London (LTCL, ATCL) and her Associate in Musical Theory, Criticism and Literature (AMusTCL). She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and is a fellow of the International Team for Implantology (ITI), and a member of the Australian New Zealand Academy of Periodontists (ANZAP), Australian Society of Periodontology (ASP), Australian Osseointegration Society (AOS) and the Australian Dental Association (ADA).

Dr Alan Zhu graduated dentistry from The University of Melbourne and completed his periodontics specialist program at The University of Queensland. During his training, he was the recipient of the ADAVB Evident Student Research Prize and the Australasian Osseointegration Society (AOS) Young Lecturer award. He has also been recognised with a Certificate in Specialised Training in Periodontology, Periodontics and Implant Dentistry by the European Federation of Periodontology.

Alan has worked in private practice in rural NSW, Brisbane and Melbourne. He enjoys teaching dental students and has taught at Charles Sturt University, The University of Queensland and The University of Melbourne.

He is an active member of the AOS, International Team for Implantology (ITI), Australian and New Zealand Academy of Periodontists (ANZAP), and the Australian Society of Periodontology (ASP).