Professor Shanon Patel is a Professor of Endodontology, Kings College London, Consultant Endodontist, Guy's Hospital and works in Specialist Practice, London W1. Shanon divides his time between working in a specialist practice in central London and teaching future Specialist Endodontists in the Postgraduate Unit at King's College London Dental Institute. His PhD thesis assessed the use of CBCT in the management of Endodontic problems. Shanon is actively involved in research and has co-supervised over 60 Masters and PhD students. Primary research interests reflect some of the interesting challenges he faces in everyday clinical practice and include survival of teeth, managing dental trauma, microbiology and CBCT in endodontics. Shanon has been the lead author of National (FGDP, Royal College of Surgeons) and European (ESE) guidelines on dental imaging in endodontics. He has published over 100 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals and co-edited four endodontic and radiology textbooks which have been translated into five different languages.