Doctor Details

Biosketch

Raymond Chung Wen Wong is the Vice Dean, Graduate Studies and Lifelong Learning; Associate Professor (tenured) and Director, Discipline of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS), Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore (NUS). On the clinical side, he is the National University Health System (NUHS) Cluster Lead (OMFS) and Senior Consultant, Division of OMFS, National University Centre for Oral Health Singapore.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree in 1997 from University of Malaya. He was awarded the University Entrance Scholarship and Book Prizes for Excellence for the First, Second and Final (Part 1) Professional Examinations. He was then awarded the sole Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Scholarship to pursue his Master of Dental Surgery (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery) at the National University of Singapore, graduating in 2003. 

He went to the United Kingdom on a Health Manpower Development Program award from the Singapore Ministry of Health in Advanced Orthognathic Surgery, working as a Specialist Registrar in Trauma and Orthognathic Surgery in the Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland, England and as a Clinical Fellow in Cleft and Orthognathic Surgery at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, Wales from 2007-2008. He obtained his PhD (Medical Sciences) from the Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands in 2011, after which he joined NUHS 2012 and then NUS in 2015.

Current Leadership Positions:

• Councilor to the International Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons (IAOMS)
• Member, Education Committee, IAOMS
• President, International Conference of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ICOMS) Singapore 2025
• Executive Councilor at Large, Asian Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
• Regional Affairs Officer, and Country representative for Singapore, Asia Pacific Board of the AO CMF * (the Association for the Study of Internal Fixation, Craniomaxillofacial Surgery). 

Previous Positions held:

• President, Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Singapore. As President, he led the winning bid to host the Asian Congress on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for the first time in Singapore in 2020, serving as Organizing
• Chair, Chapter of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons, College of Dental Surgeons Singapore
• Councilor for Singapore, and Executive Councilor at large, Governing Council, Asian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

His area of research interests are in technological implementation of the 4th Industrial Revolution in surgery e.g. patient specific implants, 3D printing; obstructive sleep apnea and clinical research outcomes. As a Regional and International Faculty for AO CMF, he travels frequently to speak and educate budding and mid-level surgeons primarily within the Asia Pacific region and occasionally, outside of it. He has published more than 50 internationally indexed high impact peer reviewed publications and is on the Editorial Board of Nature Scientific Reports and BMC Oral Health.