Dr Diny completed his DClinDent (Doctor of Clinical Dentistry – Griffith University, Australia) and PhD from the University of Otago, New Zealand. His PhD project comprised of a human clinical trial, and in vivo sheep study and two in vitro human cadaver studies. Earlier, Allauddin Siddiqi (Diny) graduated from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan in 1994. He obtained his Postgraduate Diploma in Dentistry (2006) and then MSc in Maxillofacial & Oral Surgery (2008) with cum laude from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He was granted fellowship in Oral Surgery by The International Association of Bone Research (IBRA) from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Germany (Frankfurt) and AO Cranio- Maxillofacial from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany (Munich) in 2008 and 2009 respectively.