I was awarded my Ph.D. by the department of oral public health, university of Helsinki in July 2007. My thesis was entitled “Preventive Orientation and Caries Management by Iranian Dentists”. In it, I explored the preventive orientation of Iranian dentists and what they perceived as barriers to the provision of preventive dental care. The target population comprised Iranian general dental practitioners that took part in two major dental congresses in Tehran, Iran, in 2004- 2005. Data was gathered by means of a self-administered questionnaire which covered dentists' knowledge of caries prevention, attitudes towards preventive dental care, self-assessed oral health behaviour, restorative treatment threshold, risk-based preventive practice, involvement in smoking cessation, perceived barriers for carrying out preventive dental care. I am eager to dig more on the social determinants of oral health to find ways for creating supportive environment for oral health promotion, undergraduate and postgraduate dental education to find opportunities for training more community-oriented dentists, and evidence-based dentistry to cooperate in establishment of databases for informed clinical and health policy decision making.I have 6 years teaching experience on community oral health (both theoretical and practical), and research methodology. As required I would be happy to contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate modules of both a research-led and a methodological nature.