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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7048
Email
ajith.polonowita@otago.ac.nz
Position
Senior Professional Practice Fellow
Department
Department of Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences
Qualifications
BDS MDSc MRACDS FOMAA
Teaching
  • Academic Lead Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, La Trobe University
  • Head of Discipline of Oral Medicine, University of Otago
  • Lead Consultant in Oral Medicine, Christchurch Hospital
  • Consultant in Oral Medicine, Bendigo Base Hospital
Memberships
  • Board of Studies Oral Medicine, RACDS
  • Equivalence Committee Oral Medicine AHPRA
  • Member of ADA, NZDA, OMAA, RACDS, ANZAOP, NZPS, IAOP
Clinical
Dr A D Polonowita is a registered specialist in Oral Medicine in both Australia and New Zealand.

Research

I am the Head of Discipline of Oral Medicine.

My Research interests include:

  • TMD and management
  • Oral dysaesthesia

Additional details

Director of AD Polonowita Pty, Director PAG Dental Ltd.

Publications

Polonowita, A., & Firth, N. A. (2025). Histopathology of non-infective stomatitis. In S. R. Prabhu, N. Narayana, N. A. Firth & D. F. Wilson (Eds.), Oral histology and oral histopathology: A practical guide for dental students and a companion to pathologists. (pp. 265-272). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-77481-2_25 Chapter in Book - Research

Polonowita, A. (2025). Histopathology of developmental anomalies and anatomical variants of the oral mucosa. In S. R. Prabhu, N. Narayana, N. A. Firth & D. F. Wilson (Eds.), Oral histology and oral histopathology: A practical guide for dental students and a companion to pathologists. (pp. 259-264). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-77481-2_24 Chapter in Book - Research

Moore, B., Guan, G., Whitley, B., Mei, L., & Polonowita, A. D. (2025). Distinguishing chronic pain from mechanical factors in chronic TMD: A narrative review. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2025.2520387 Journal - Research Other

Guan, G., Rathninde, L., Friedlander, L., Hanlin, S., Polonowita, A., & Mei, L. (2025). Students’ perceived knowledge and confidence of performing extra-oral clinical examinations during Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) study in New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1615), 20-33. doi: 10.26635/6965.6830 Journal - Research Article

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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