Aristidis Arhakis
Associate Professor of Dentistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Aristidis Arhakis graduated from the School of Dentistry of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1997 (DDS). He subsequently completed his postgraduate training in Paediatric Dentistry at the Leeds Dental Institute, United Kingdom, where he was awarded the degree of Master of Dental Science (MDentSci) for the period 1999–2001. Following his postgraduate studies, he worked as a Community Dentist with a specialty in Paediatric Dentistry at a Public Dental Centre in Bradford, United Kingdom, from 2001 to 2002. He obtained his PhD in 2013 from the Department of Preventive Dentistry, Periodontology and Implant Biology at the School of Dentistry of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From 2014 to 2018, he served as a University Scholar at the Department of Paediatric Dentistry. He was appointed Assistant Professor at the School of Dentistry in 2018, a position he held until 2024, when he was elected Associate Professor. His research output includes more than 50 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, with over 927 citations, as well as at least 25 publications in Greek scientific journals. He is the author of the book “Paediatric Dentistry: Laboratory Manual” (in Greek), published in 2015 by Kallipos Publications. He has also authored five chapters in the Greek-language textbook “Paediatric Dentistry” (2019, Filatos Publications) and four chapters in the international textbook “Paediatric Dentistry” (Kotsanos N., Sarnat H., Park K.), published in 2022 by Springer Nature. He has served as a peer reviewer for more than 20 international scientific journals. He has participated in the supervision of two doctoral theses and eight postgraduate dissertations, four of which received awards for best presentation at international paediatric dentistry conferences. He is the Councillor for Greece at the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry (EAPD). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Society of Preventive Dentistry and the Hellenic Paediatric Dentistry Society. He currently serves as Director of the Postgraduate Programme in Paediatric Dentistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has delivered more than 150 presentations at national and international conferences on topics including dental trauma, saliva, dental fear, nitrous oxide sedation, and the assessment of dental fear through salivary biomarkers.