Andrew Terry is a Senior Lecturer in Dental Hygiene working for the Newly minted Faculty of Medicine of Health, School of Dentistry. He works with both the Bachelor of Oral Health (BOH) and the Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) programs since August 2015.

He is responsible primarily for the education of Periodontal instrumentation/screening and Oral Hygiene instruction education for both the BOH1 and DMD1 & 2-year levels. He supervises clinical practice of the final year BOH3 students (Dental Hygiene stream) and the initial Clinical Periodontal treatment provided by DMD2 students. From 2017 he was appointed as a Unit of Study Co-coordinator for BOH1 students. He is responsible also for the education/appointment of Clinical Educators for DMD1&2 Periodontics department.

Andrew still works in private practice each Friday and has a special interest in providing caring treatment for HIV and Hep C positive patients. He also lecturers on this topic in the Bachelor of Oral Health Program. He undertakes volunteer oral hygiene education sessions for various HIV and HEP C positive groups from diverse back grounds and age groups. He has worked with ACON and Positive Life NSW, Australia.

He has approximately 32 years’ clinical experience first qualifying as a Dental Therapist in QLD, Australia in 1993 and then as a Dental Hygienist in London, U.K in 1998. He ratified his Australian and U.K education in Switzerland with the Swiss red cross and attained the protected title of “Dip. Dental Hygienist of Higher Education”. He completed his Masters in Education in 2019 and will enrole for a part-time PhD in 2026.

He has worked in Townsville, Brisbane, London and Zurich. He has been based in Sydney for 18 years now.