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Contact Details

Phone
64 3 479 6530
Email
darryl.tong@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor and Head of Department of Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences, Associate Dean (Pacific), Faculty of Dentistry
Department
Department of Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences
Qualifications
BDS MB ChB MSD PhD PGDipSEM FFDRCSI FDSRCS FACOMS FACS FICD
Research summary
Trauma, war surgery, sports-related concussion
Teaching

Teaches wide range of students across many disciplines and fields at undergraduate and postgraduate level including specialist trainees in oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Clinical
Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon, Southern DHB

Research

Professor Darryl Tong’s main research interests include military and civilian trauma with a particular focus on ballistic injuries to the head, face and neck, sports-related concussion and subconcussive impact force research.

He also has interests in clinical and systematic review-based research in oral and maxillofacial surgery including dentoalveolar surgery,pathology, trauma, dental implantology, and other clinical aspects of the specialty. Of particular interest however is maxillofacial trauma and ballistic injury especially in theatres of conflict.

Professor Tong's PhD involved looking at war injuries of the face and jaws from an integrated historical and surgical viewpoint. Other research interests include forensic biology and sports medicine.

Publications

Moore, B., De Silva, H., Samaranayaka, A., De Silva, R., & Tong, D. (2025, September). Occlusal planning in orthognathic surgery: Is a digital equivalent to hand? Verbal presentation at the Faculty of Dentistry Clinical and Research Excellence Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Bussey, M. D., Salmon, D., Nanai, B., Romanchuk, J., Gomez, R. M., Tong, D., Sole, G., … Falvey, É. (2025). Contact role and tackle characteristics shape head acceleration exposure in male community rugby: A cohort study utilising instrumented mouthguards. Sports Medicine. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s40279-025-02314-2 Journal - Research Article

Ngah, N. A., Mohd Noor, S. N. F., Dias, G. J., Tong, D. C., Ratnayake, J., Cooper, P. R., & Hussaini, H. M. (2025). Optimising the microarchitecture and cytocompatibility of lyophilised platelet-rich fibrin biocomposite scaffold for alveolar bone regeneration. Journal of Clinical Periodontology, 52(Suppl. 28), PD178. doi: 10.1111/jcpe.14159 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

France, A., De Silva, H. L., Tong, D., Mei, L., & Guan, G. (2025). From tooth to vision: A decade of breakthroughs in osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP) and modified OOKP: Global insights into surgical techniques, outcomes, and pioneering research. Seminars in Ophthalmology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/08820538.2025.2503910 Journal - Research Other

Lin, Y. K., Mei, L., Narsinh, P., Tong, D., Polonowita, A., & Guan, G. (2025). Patient perceptions of the service provision at an academic oral medicine clinic. New Zealand Dental Journal, 121(1), 9-14. Journal - Research Article

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