Dr Yee Ruixiang

A few years after graduating from National University of Singapore (NUS), Dr Ruixiang was awarded the Ministry of Health scholarship to pursue Paediatric Dentistry at King’s College London (KCL). He passed both his MSc and PGCert with Distinctions. He subsequently passed the Tri-collegiate MPaedDent diploma examinations and is now a member to the Royal College of Surgeons of England. After his return to Singapore, he attained Singapore Dental Specialist Board Accreditation and is currently a Fellow to the Academy of Medicine Singapore.

As a Consultant Paediatric Dentist with KKH Dental Service and Cleft & Craniofacial Centre, Dr Yee provides preventive and therapeutic dental care for infants, children, and adolescents. This includes working closely with the medical team to manage children with medical conditions, special needs, child abuse, and dental trauma.

He is active in research and passionate in teaching medical and dental colleagues. He is a clinical teacher at Faculty of Dentistry, NUS. He is also invited regularly to teach oral health to SingHealth Paediatric Medicine residents.

He volunteers as the Vice President of Society for Paediatric Dentistry Singapore, Board Member of Paediatric Dentistry Association of Asia (PDAA), and was the board member of the Singapore Dental Health Foundation. He is also a question writer/reviewer for the 2023 International Association of Paediatric Dentistry (IAPD) Fellowship Exam Committee (Section of Special Needs & Paediatric Medicine).

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

Professional Appointments

• Evaluator: New Dental chair evaluation committee (Aug 2022-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

• KKH Service from the Heart, Singapore, Jul-Dec 2021
• Star Award at Singapore Quality Health Service Award (SHQSA) 2020 organised by SingHealth, Jan 2020
• Gold Award at Singapore Quality Health Service Award (SHQSA) 2019 organised by SingHealth, Jan 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
• King's College London 2014/15 Graduate School Conference Fund Award
• 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
  

• 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., 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