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About Dr Md Badrun Nafis Bin Saion
Dr Badrun is a specialist in Paediatric Dentistry spending 17 years serving in public services at the School Dental Service, Health Promotion Board and the Paediatric Dentistry Unit of National Dental Centre of Singapore (NDCS). He is well-versed with inhalation sedation and general anaesthesia management of children. Aside from his expertise in treating dental conditions, he also has numerous creative techniques to manage even the most difficult child on the dental chair and enjoys to create fun bonding with both children and their parents to achieve the best dental health care for all family members.
Dr Badrun obtained his dental degree from the National University of Singapore in 2000 and subsequently pursued his specialty training at the University of Melbourne (Australia) under a scholarship from NDCS in 20006, receiving a Doctor in Clinical Dentistry (Paediatric Dentistry). During his overseas training, he received training in the treatments of a variety of special needs and medically compromised children at the Royal Children Hospital and Royal Dental Hospital
After his return from the training, he served as an Associate Consultant at the National Dental Centre. He is also an active volunteer for AWWA School to manage the dental conditions of the special needs students in the school.
Dr Badrun plays significant roles and has many contributions in dental teaching and public awareness for dental health. He served as a lecturer for 7 years for NITEC Dental Surgery Assistant Course and was a postgraduate supervisor in the NUS paediatric dentistry programme. He also regularly gives talks to increase public awareness of the importance of dental health in children.
Currently, Dr Badrun is a Board Member for the Association of Malay Professionals, Mercu Learning Point and Executive Member of Tabung Amal Aidilfitri. He is also the Vice President of Powerlifting Singapore and serves as a certified powerlifting coach as well as an international referee for International Powerlifting Federation.
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What are the lessons that could be learnt from working at the COVID-19 quarantine zones?
Something about what Raymond said about the (circuit breaker). When we are in the circuit breaker, we’re at home, we find it very inconvenient. But when we go out to the dorms, we go out to the sites, we see with our own eyes that it’s the weekday but everything’s so quiet. Everything’s shut down. There’s nobody walking around, there’s nobody working. And then we can see, my goodness, the impact on our economy. We’d always see the numbers later, you have already seen some of the numbers, but I’m sure the numbers will be bad.
What are the challenges you faced at the COVID-19 quarantine zones (aside from the heat), maybe on the personal or mental level?
There are a few challenges, and fasting is definitely one of them. I just went back to back today, and actually I feel -- even after half a session, half a day I feel drained. But today I went the whole day, and I tell you, I feel really drained right now. My mouth is dry. And when I got back just now, I was just flat. I’m glad I got home in one piece. The other challenge is actually communication. Because we want to explain to them what the process is like, we also need to ask some questions about their health.
What kind of work goes into ensuring that the COVID-19 quarantine zones are kept in line?
Firstly, what’s important is actually, we want to test the foreign workers but at the same time, we have to ensure our own protection. So the number one thing we have to be aware (of), (is that) we cannot take it lightly. We cannot take it that “Oh, it’s okay it’s not going to happen to us”. There’s been testing (of) samples, random sampling of cases but in fact these random sampling of cases, there are positive cases.
Practice
180 Kitchener Road City Square Mall Singapore 208539
Background Check
No Singapore Medical Council Disciplinary Tribunal actions found for the years we collect data.
* This profile has been last updated on July 22, 2020.