Our Periodontist

About Dr Ahmed El-Hadidi

Ahmed completed his specialty degree in Periodontics from the University of Melbourne following his 15 years of practice as a general dentist. He graduated from Cairo and then moved to Australia in 2010, where he practiced in Launceston, then Sydney, before settling in Melbourne in 2016.

While practicing all fields of dentistry, Ahmed's passion and interest were in the fields of periodontics and implant dentistry, motivating him to join the specialty program in 2020 at the university of Melbourne.

His research thesis aimed to identify the DNA mutations increasing the susceptibility to periodontal disease. This will help build a susceptibility profile for our patients, enabling us to offer them a tailored management plan and thus apply the precision medicine principle. Ahmed is a member of ADA, AOS, ASP, and ITI organizations, which helps continuously update his professional knowledge.

Ahmed provides a range of procedures, including non-surgical/surgical periodontal therapy, regenerative procedures, hard and soft tissue grafting, aesthetic procedures (e.g. crown lengthening, managing recession defects), and all aspects of implant dentistry.

Dr Neil McGregor

Neil is a registered specialist periodontist under the Dental Board of Australia. He specializes in periodontal treatment, dental implants and treatment of chronic pain syndromes. Neil gained his undergraduate dental degree (BDS) at University of Sydney in 1974.

He completed a specialist degree in Periodontics (MDSc) at the University of Queensland in 1982. Neil then established a specialist practice in Newcastle NSW, with branch practices in Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour and Tamworth in NSW. Neil gained his PhD at the University of Sydney in 2000 and has published over 70 papers in peer reviewed journals. He has been an editor of an international journal, on several editorial boards and has been involved in research at several universities in Australia (Melbourne University and Victoria University) and abroad in both dental and medical research fields (Stanford University CA USA, Harvard University MA USA). He has delivered lectures at conferences in both Australia and abroad.

He is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and is a mentor for the postgraduate students in Periodontics at the University of Melbourne. He also is a supervisor of research projects for a number of these students and is involved in a major project investigating the genome wide/metabolome/microbiome analysis of periodontal diseases. He is an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University.

He is a consultant to a NATA accredited pathology company and has an academic interest in the science of metabolomics, microbiology, genetics, inflammatory mediated disease and chronic pain disorders.

Neil is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Periodontists, the Australian Society of Periodontology, the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Orofacial Pain, and the Australian Dental Association.