Dr. P.L.P. Jayashantha

BDS (Sri Lanka), MSc (Colombo), MD (Colombo)

120/9/2, Thantirimulla Road, Kuruppumulla, Panadura, 12500, Sri Lanka

TP (Mobile): 0094714164239

E mail: [email protected]/ [email protected]

Objective A challenging role to play as a community dentistry consultant/dental

surgeon in an area/ a Dental Clinic/ a Hospital by using experience of twenty two

years gained in preventive and curative dental care.

Personal Information

Name with initalls : P.L.P. Jayashantha

Name im Full : Panangala Liyanage Pradeep Jayashantha

Date of Birth : 04

th

June 1969

Age : 50 yrs

Sex : Male

Address : 120/9/2, Thantirimulla Road, Kuruppumulla, Panadura,

12500, Sri Lanka

Contact details : TP (Mobile): 0094714164239

E mail: [email protected]

[email protected]

Educational and Professional Qualifications

Qualifications obtained

Preliminary education at Isipathana College, Colombo 05,

and Nalanda College, Colombo 10

Bachelors Degree in Dental Surgery (BDS) was obtained

from the University of Peradeniya- 1997

Master of Science (MSc) Degree in Community Dentistry

at the University of Colombo attached to the Post Graduate

Institute of Medicine-2001

Doctor of Medicine (MD) in Community Dentistry at the

University of Colombo attached to the Post Graduate

Institute of Medicine-2013

Certificate in Dental Implantology of the American

Academy of dental Implantology-2016

Membership in

Professional bodies Life Member of Sri Lanka Dental Association

Life Member of College of Community Dentistry, Sri

Lanka and presently hold Vice president post

Life Member of Sri Lanka College of Military Medicine

Research outputs

Thesis MSc dissertation titled “Evaluation of quality of dental care

provided in private dental practices in Greater Colombo

area” (Annexure I)

Supervisor: Prof. S.L.Herath, Professor in Community

Dentistry, Department of Community Dental Health,

Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya,

Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

MD Thesis titled “Dental anxiety in a Sri Lankan

population” (Annexure II)

Supervisors:

Dr. U.S. Usgodaarachchi, Consultant in Community

Dentistry, Community Dental Unit, Family Health Bureau,

Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Dr. Varuni De Silva, Consultant in Psychiatry, Department

of Medical Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of

Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Oral Presentations “Betel Chewing and Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders

among group of Air Men”

Presented in 2017 Inaugural Academic Sessions of Sri

Lanka College of Military Medicine held in Military

Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

“Dental Anxiety Is Significant in A Sri Lankan population”

(Abstract-Annexure V)

Presented in 2015 IADR/AADR/CADR General Session &

Exhibition held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

“Reservoirs of HIV RNA and DNA: CNS; lymph nodes;

MALT; bone marrow, thymus; spleen; genital fluids:

special emphasis on the ring of Waldeyer as a reservoir:

risk of shedding competent virus into oral fluids:

implications for transmission”

Presented in 2014- The 7th World Workshop on Oral

Health and Disease in AIDS” held in Hyderabad, India.

Also, this included with other presenters topics as a special

report in the JDR (Annexure VI)

“Oral Health Status Of Veddas-Sri Lankan Indigenous

People” (Abstract-Annexure III)

Presented in 2014 International Indigenous Oral Health

Conference organized by Australian Research Centre for

Population Oral Health held in Adelaid, Australia.

Poster Presentation “Reliability and Validity of two Dental Anxiety scales in a