A consultant paediatric dentist with a special interest in hospital dentistry, Dr. Lochana Ramalingam is currently the Director of Dentistry at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and an Honorary Fellow at the Melbourne Dental School. Dr. Ramalingam is also a Research Associate at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute with a primary focus is on managing pediatric patients with complex medical conditions, special needs, dental anomalies, oral pathology and complex acute dental trauma.