LLU School of Dentistry Dentalgram

Dr. Andy Sheng, from Sir Run Run Shaw dental clinic, receives training in endodontics in the School of Dentistry

Dr. Andy Sheng, a staff dentist with Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital dental clinic, People’s Republic of China (left), recently received training in the School of Dentistry. He is pictured with Drs. Leif K. Bakland, associate dean and professor of endodontics (center), and Lloyd Baum, professor emeritus, restorative dentistry.

Faculty in the School of Dentistry began collaborating with the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital dental clinic in Hangzou, People’s Republic of China, even before the clinic opened in 1994.

Dr. Lloyd Baum, professor emeritus, restorative dentistry, traveled to the clinic to help set up the dental equipment and to prepare for the opening.

The partnership between the School and Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital remains strong, with Loma Linda faculty presenting seminars to standing-room only audiences at the Hospital, and doctors from the clinic traveling to Loma Linda to spend time learning at the School of Dentistry

Most recently Dr. Andy Sheng has been a visiting dentist at the School, arriving on April 29, 2002. Dr. Sheng observed treatments in the endodontic clinic and the implant dentistry clinics and he has attended classes with residents. In addition, he has observed procedures in the Implant Dentistry clinic and the International Dentist Program clinic.

Dr. Sheng has been a staff dentist in the SRRSH dental clinic for 10 years, joining the clinic in September, 1993 (one year before it officially opened).

He received his dental training from Zhejiang University and Medical School, completing studies in the university’s stomatology department.

Each month, more than 1,000 patients are seen in the clinic, including Chinese officials and government leaders from the province.

Currently nine dentists staff the SRRSH dental clinic, assisted by four technicians and five dental assistants. Though the dental clinic now has eight chairs, plans are under way to enlarge the clinic, adding eight more chairs.

Interestingly, in the Chinese educational system, after completing school doctors receive their work assignments from the university they attended.