Meet
Dr Samy Francis
We caught up with Dr Samy Francis in the leadup to his upcoming WA Dental CPD courses.
Dr Samy Francis graduated with a Bachelor of Dental Science with Distinction in 2008, and then worked in Egypt, New Zealand, Queensland and New South Wales.
“At the time, my plan was to go back to New Zealand after I finish the training and work as a periodontist there, but Perth became my home, so I never moved back.”
In 2016, he decided to move to Perth to complete a Postgraduate Doctor of Clinical Dentistry in Periodontics.
Samy will be presenting a number of WA Dental CPD courses in August, including ‘Posterior Crown Lengthening’ with Dr Armand Putra on August 11, ‘When Hopeless Teeth Are Not So Hopeless’ for the New Practitioner Program on August 18, and will also be one of the presenters at ‘Specialists in Darwin’ on August 27.
Knowledge is enabling, and it makes people better dentists so they can provide better service to their patients. This is what we are in the job to do – provide the best possible service to our patients. When asked about the decision to specialise, Samy says he found periodontics fascinating. “I have always enjoyed the surgical side of dentistry and wanted to help people keep their teeth,” he says. He has been in Western Australia for six years now, and calls it home. “This is where my life is – my friends and my work,” he says. “I wanted to become a periodontist, and at the time, I was living in New Zealand. There are six or seven universities that offer the course and each of them only take one or two students a year, so I applied everywhere in Australia and New Zealand, and WA accepted me first.
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Samy says contributing to a dentist’s knowledge is very rewarding. “Knowledge is enabling, and it makes people better dentists so they can provide better service to their patients. This is what we are in the job to do – provide the best possible service to our patients.” He also finds his practice work satisfying. “Mostly I enjoy the improvement you can see in someone’s quality of life after having treatment,” he says. “I love seeing the progress of a patient and being able to build good relationships with them over the course of treatment.”
SAMY WILL BE PRESENTING
Posterior Crown Lengthening Thursday 11 August at the University Club
Specialists in Darwin Saturday 27 August at Darwin Convention Centre
