Dr. Varun Acharya

Dr. Varun Acharya obtained his Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree from Saveetha Dental College, Chennai. He graduated at the top of his class and was selected as the Outgoing Student on graduation. He pursued his post-graduate education in the United States of America where he completed 4 years of prosthodontic training at the New York University, College of Dentistry where he specialized in dental implants, veneers, crowns, bridges, inlays, onlays and dentures. At NYU, he was a recipient of the Adisman Award for the most outstanding graduating prosthodontic resident. After New York, he continued his post-graduate education at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he completed a fellowship in Maxillofacial Prosthetics and Oncologic Dentistry. At MD Anderson, his focus was primarily on the maxillofacial rehabilitation of the cancer survivor. Besides intra-oral prosthetic devices, Dr. Varun also focuses on facial rehabilitation with silicone facial prosthetics.Dr. Varun has presented numerous table clinics and research papers in conferences in India and abroad. His research and scholarly articles have also been published in peer reviewed international journals such as the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry and the International Journal of Prosthodontics. Dr. Varun is currently the consultant prosthodontist at Acharya Dental and the consultant maxillofacial prosthodontist at Tata Medical Center, Kolkata.Peer-reviewed Scientific Publications:Resinous denture base fracture resistance: effects of thickness and teeth.Use of forced eruption to enhance a pontic site in the anterior maxilla.Conventional prosthodontic management of partial edentulism with a resilient attachment-retained overdenture in a patient with a cleft lip and palate: a clinical report.A technique to orient a stone cast in the fabrication of a nasal prosthesis.Maxillofacial prosthodontic rehabilitation of a patient with oral complications during and after multimodality therapy for the management of oral squamous cell carcinoma.Sialendoscopy for Patients with Radioiodine-Induced Sialadenitis and Xerostomia.Orthodontic Management of Patients Undergoing Prosthetic Rehabilitation.