Clin Asst Prof Yee Ruixiang

A few years after graduating from National University of Singapore, Dr Yee Ruixiang was awarded the Ministry of Health scholarship to pursue Paediatric Dentistry at King’s College London. During his three years in the UK, he worked at the Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ hospitals, and Evelina London Children’s hospital, and passed both his MSc and PGCert with Distinctions. He also passed the Tri-collegiate MPaedDent diploma examinations and is now a member to the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Locally, he is a board-certified Paediatric Dentist with the Specialist Accreditation Board Singapore and is a Fellow to the Academy of Medicine Singapore (FAMS).

Dr Yee is a consultant Paediatric Dentist at the KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital (KKH) Dental Service and at the KKH Cleft and Craniofacial Centre. He manages the oral health of babies and children especially those with medical conditions, cleft lip/palate, child abuse and oral trauma. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor with the Duke-NUS medical school and clinical lecturer of the NUS Paediatric Dentistry postgraduate programme. He has special interest in oral health of children with cancer, dental sedation, pain management, special needs, and non-accidental injuries. Dr Yee volunteers as the current President of Society for Paediatric Dentistry Singapore and Board Member of Paediatric Dentistry Association of Asia. He is also a question writer/reviewer for the 2023 & 2024 International Association of Paediatric Dentistry (IAPD) Fellowship Exam Committee (Section of Special Needs & Paediatric Medicine).

His dedication to patient care has earned him several times, the KKH Service from the Heart Awards [2013, 2017,2021] and the Singapore Health Quality Service Awards in [2019 (Gold), 2020 (Star), 2023 (Silver), 2024 (Gold), 2025 (Star)]. He was also the very first recipient of the inaugural KKH ChildKind Champ Award (Doctor Category) in 2022, being a key person to spearhead the setup of the nitrous oxide dental service at KKH.

He is active in research and have won awards e.g. the SAAD President’s Best Poster Award 2017 on “Ketamine Sedation in Oro-facial Trauma” and the Oral Health Academic Clinical Programme Young Clinician Publications Awards four times. He also obtained the SingHealth Duke NUS Academic Centre ACP Education Support Grant and Innovation Seed Grant in April 2024. He speaks widely at local and international conferences.

• Dental Specialist Accreditation, Dental Specialist Accreditation Board(DSAB) (Paediatric Dentistry), Singapore, 2019
• Diploma of Membership of Paediatric Dentistry, Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), 2016
• Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Clinical Dental Practice (Passed with Distinction), King’s College of London, 2016  
• Master of Science in Paediatric Dentistry (Passed with Distinction), King’s College of London, 2015
• Bachelor of Dental Surgery, National University of Singapore, 2010

Professional Appointments

• SingHealth Centre for Interprofessional Healthcare Education (CIPHE) Core community (Dec 2024 to present)
• Division innovation champion for DIMICT - Digital Integration, Medical Innovation & Care Transformation (Jun 2024 to present)
• SingHealth One dentistry workgroup (March 2024 to present)
• Dental Nominated Rep for Singhealth-GP Partners Buddy system (for Div of Surg) – (May 2024-Jan 2025)
• Evaluator: New Dental chair evaluation committee (Aug 2022-Jan 2025)
• Clinical Lecturer, Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore, 2023-present
• Clinical Teacher, Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore, 2021-present
• Division of Surgery Representative, KKH Sustainable Development Workgroup, April 2021-present
• Member, KKH Paediatric Pain Management Committee, 2020-2022
• KKH Dental Service Representative, KKH Consent Forms & Addendums, 2017-present
• Senior Lead Informatics Specialist, Clinical Informatics Group (CIG) - Working level expert representative/ clinical Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Dental Notes on-boarding onto National Electronic Health Records (NEHR), 2020-2022
  
• Co-Chairman, Organising Committee, 14th Practice Update in Paediatrics GP Forum on 21st October 2017

Committee Memberships

• Board Member, Paediatric Dentistry Association of Asia (PDAA) 2022-2024
• Question writer/reviewer for the 2023 International Association of Paediatric Dentistry (IAPD) Fellowship Exam Committee (Section of Special Needs & Paediatric Medicine) for Term 2022-2023
• Vice-President, Society of Paediatric Dentistry Singapore, 2019-2022
• Vice Chairman, Singapore Soka Association Medical Group, 2011-present
• Board Member, Singapore Dental Health Foundation, 2011-2021
• Member, Singapore Dental Association, Ethics Committee, 2011-2013

Professional Memberships

• Fellow, Academy of Medicine Singapore, Aug 2019
• Vice President, Singapore Society of Paediatric Dentistry (17 July 2019 - present)
• Member, The UK Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry (SAAD), 2017
• Dental Member, Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), 2016
• Member, Society of Paediatric Dentistry Singapore, 2016
• Member, British Society of Paediatric Dentistry, 2013

• SingHealth Duke NUS Academic Centre Academic Clinical Programme (ACP) Programme Grants FY2024 Cycle 1 Awards in April 2024
  • Education Support Grant (IOC3 OHP: Interprofessional Oral Care for Children with Cancer: An Evidence-based Oral Health Programme)
  • Clinical & Systems Innovation Support - Innovation Seed Grant (Easi Dam) Project
• Star Award at Singapore Health Quality Service Award (SHQSA) 2025
• Gold Award at Singapore Health Quality Service Award (SHQSA) 2024
• Oral Health Academic Clinical Programme Young Clinician Publications Award for Project title: An update on dental management of children with haemophilia (Sep 2022)
• Oral Health Academic Clinical Programme Young Clinician Publications Award for Project title: A case report of tongue stuck to a bottle in a paediatric patient (Sep 2022)
• Oral Health Academic Clinical Programme Young Clinician Publications Award for Project title: Frenal Tears: Accidental or Non-Accidental? (Sep 2022)
• Silver Award at Singapore Quality Health Service Award (SHQSA) 2023
• KKH Service from the Heart, Jul-Dec 2021
• Star Award at Singapore Quality Health Service Award (SHQSA) 2020
• Gold Award at Singapore Quality Health Service Award (SHQSA) 2019
• The Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry (SAAD) UK President’s Silver Jubilee Best Poster Prize, Sep 2017
• KKH Service from the Heart, Singapore, Jan-Jun 2017
• Distinction grade in Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Clinical Dental Practice, King’s College of London, 2016
• Distinction grade in MSc in Paediatric Dentistry, King’s College of London, 2015
• Singapore Ministry of Health’s Overseas Postgraduate Training Scholarship, 2013
• KKH Service from the Heart, Singapore, Jan-Jun 2013
• Alpha Omega London Chapter Postgraduate Travelling Scholarship 2015
• King’s College London Graduate School Conference Fund Award 2014/15

• Oral health in paediatric oncology patients
• Dental sedation and management of anxious children
• Dental Trauma
• Multidisciplinary management of sick children
• Safeguarding of children

• Paediatric Oncology Nurses', Patients', and Caregiver's Oral Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices & Perceived Barriers
• Retrospective study of intra-muscular ketamine sedation in managing paediatric dental trauma
• What the child "SAID" to the dentist: A UK randomized controlled trial.
• Documentation audit of caries risk assessment and preventive care planning.

Publications in International Journals

• Yee R, Sim SY, Chow WH, Rajasegaran K, Hong CHL. Munchausen syndrome by proxy: A narrative review and update for the dentist and other healthcare professionals. Dental Traumatology. 2024; 40(Suppl. 2): 23–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/edt.129462
• Koo, C. S., Chan, B. H., & Yee, R. (2023). Multiple traumatised upper incisors in children treated by autotransplantation and orthodontics - a 4-year follow-up. Australasian Orthodontic Journal, 39(2), 160-173. doi:10.2478/aoj-2023-0033
  
• Yee, R., Chay, PL., Khor, MMY., Lim,YSL., Lee, NKL., Kam, WF., Saffari, SE., Chan, MY. (2023) A Survey of Pediatric Oncology Nurses’ Oral Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices and Perceived Barriers in a Singapore Tertiary Children’s Hospital. BDJ Open. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41405-023-00130-2
• Tan, JMC., Boo, YY., Manikam, L., Yeo, TH., Lin, JB., Yee, R., Ng, ZM. (2023) Access to dental care and caries experience among children with cerebral palsy: A Singapore experience. Singapore Med J (Accepted 15 Nov 2022, to be published)
• YEE, R., Duggal MS, Wong VYY, Lam JCM. An Update on the Dental Management of Children with Haemophilia. Prim Dent J. 2021 Dec;10(4):45-51. doi: 10.1177/20501684211066241. PMID: 35088637.
• YEE, R., Kwek VYX, Bong CL, Chan BH, Wang S, Wong PCY, Tham LP. An unusual case of a foreign body: A child's tongue entrapped in a soft drink bottle. Dent Traumatol. 2021 Dec 19. doi: 10.1111/edt.12729. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34927363.
  
• YEE, R., KWEK, V. Y. X., Chng, C. K., Rajasegaran, K. & Welbury, R. 2021. Frenal tears: accidental or non-accidental? Singapore Med J (Online First).Singapore Med J 2021, 1–9 https://doi.org/10.11622/smedj.2021011 Published ahead of print: 12 March 2021
• Hu, S., Lai, B., Lim, WY., Yee, R. (2020) Recommending 1000ppm Fluoride Toothpaste for Caries Prevention in Children. Singhealth Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1177/2010105820963291
• DeSeta, M., Baldwin, D., Siddik, D., Hullah, E., Harun N., Yee, R., Khan, A., Cook, R. (2020) Conservative management of juvenile spongiotic gingivitis: a series of ten cases. Br Dent J .229, 287–291. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-020-2023-7
• Wei, H., Wee, LWY., Born, B., Seang, S., Koh, MJA., Yee, R., Lin, G., Rafi'ee, K., Mey, S., Tan, E. Palmoplantar keratoderma, oral involvement, and homozygous CTSC mutation in two brothers from Cambodia. Am J Med Genet Part A. 2019; 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.61447
• Safety and effectiveness of intramuscular ketamine sedation in the management of children with oro-dental trauma in a paediatric emergency department. Yee R., Chay PL., Tham LP. (2019). Dent Traumatol, doi: 10.1111/edt.12497.
• Yee, R., Wong, DJN., Chay, PL., Wong, VYY., Chng, CK., Hosey, MT. (2019) Nitrous oxide inhalation sedation in dentistry: an overview of its applications and safety profile. Singapore Dent J. 2019;39:1-9. doi: 10.1142/S2214607519500019 Available: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S2214607519500019 [Accessed 09-Sep-2019]
• Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw in osteoporotic patients: prevention and management. Chan, BH., Yee, R., P, Rukshini., Ang, SB. 2018. Singapore Med J; 59(2): 70-75. doi: https://doi.org/10.11622/smedj.2018014. Available at: http://www.smj.org.sg/article/medication-related-osteonecrosis-jaw-osteoporotic-patients-prevention-and-management. Accessed February 22, 2018.
• What the child "SAID" to the dentist: A UK randomized controlled trial. Yee, R., Jones, L. M., & Hosey, M. T. (2017). Child Care Health Dev. doi: 10.1111/cch.12510
• Clinical Effectiveness Bulletin: Documentation audit of caries risk assessment and preventive care planning. Yee, R., & Johnson, J. (2017). International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, 27, 52-53. doi: 10.1111/ipd.12321

Published Book Reviews

• Book review: Planning and care for children and adolescents with dental enamel defects. Yee R. Br Dent J. 2015 Aug 28;219(4):154.

Published Letters to Editors

• Dental radiography: use of beading wax. Yee R. Br Dent J. 2015 Mar;218(6):318.
• Brexit and the Practice of Clinical Dentistry. Yee R, Wong V. Br Dent J. 2015 Sep 9;221(5):211-2

Published Abstracts

• Poster abstract: IM Ketamine Sedation in Oro-facial Trauma. Yee, R., Chay, PL., & Tham, LP SAAD Digest 2018.
  
• Poster abstract: Yee, R., Chay, PL., & Chia, HL. (2017). Poster (Non-Prize Category): Multidisciplinary management of a special needs patient with fractured tooth fragment embedded in lip. International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, 27, 41. doi: 10.1111/ipd.12320
• Oral Sessions OR03-1.08: What the child 'SAID' to the dentist: a pilot RCT. Yee R, Jones L, Hosey MT. Int J Paediatr Dent. 2015 July; 25, 14-15
• Poster abstract: An audit of documentation of caries risk assessment and preventive care planning. Yee. R, Johnson, J. Int J Paediatr Dent 2016 Sep; 26 (Suppl. 1): 12–36