Dr. Rafif Tayara
Specialist Pediatric Dentist, Canada
DDS, CES, Ped. Dent
- Specializations : Children's Dentistry & Sedation Dentistry.
- Experience : 17+ Years of Experience In Children's Dentistry.
- Languages Spoken : French, English, Dutch and Arabic.
Dr. Rafif Tayara Is a Lebanese-Canadian international pediatric dentist, an oral health speaker and Ambassador, and a proud mum of 11-year-old twins Danny and Sarah.
“I can truly relate to parents’ struggles when it comes to raising kids in an ex-pat environment. I enjoy sharing parenting tips with my little patients’ parents daily”. Coming from a multicultural background, she speaks French, English and Arabic, Spanish, and Dutch. She says, “This brings me closer to my little patients and families I treat”.
She gathers an extensive experience of 18 years in her field of Pediatric Dentistry and Early Orthodontics, from training and practicing in both private clinics as well as hospital-based settings, in North America, as well as in the Middle East and GCC countries.
She currently resides in Dubai with her husband and children, where her practice focuses on seeing children as early as One for their first dental visit, early prevention of Oral Childhood caries, and early correction of facial growth and malocclusions in children.
She is one of the very first Invisalign First providers in the Middle East, and an expert in treating and managing special needs children; she had an important role in raising oral health awareness across nurseries, schools, community, medical and educational events, and media channels in the Middle East and GCC region.
- European Association of Pediatric Dentistry
- American Association of Pediatric Dentistry
- Society of Lebanese Pediatric Dentists
- Lebanese Dental Association (LDA)
- UAE Medical Association
- Emirates Society of Pediatric Dentistry
- Medical Credentialed Pediatric Dentist at Operation Smile
You can follow her on social media channels to see her day-to-day stories with patients, helping them have a healthy happy smile for life.
Instagram @doctortayara
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Lectures, Research & Publications
- Importance of Perinatal oral health and the role of physicians: Beautiful Smiles training program, published and given in association with the family medicine department / Pr. Mohamud Verjee, Cornell University, Qatar, 20th May 2017, at the Primary healthcare corporation, Doha, Qatar
- Dental Trauma: Lecture at Qatar Pediatric Emergency Medicine Conference / Sidra Hospital, Qatar, 7th – 8th January 2017
- Oral Health Module Advisor, Healthy Generation Program, Generation Amazing, Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, Doha, Qatar, November 2016
- IPE: An initiative to introduce oral health to senior medical students at WCM-Q; Mohamud A. Verjee, MD, CCFP, FCFP – Family Physician & Rafif Tayara, DDS, CSS – Pediatric Medical Dentist, 1st Middle eastern conference on Interprofessional Education, Qatar University, December 2015
- Essentials of Pediatric Oral Health procedures: Pre-conference course AEEDC 2015, Dubai, UAE
- Current techniques in Pediatric dentistry: A practical course: A full-day pediatric dentistry course given on 2nd February 2014, during the DWDM – Dubai World Dental Meeting, Dubai, UAE
- Zirconia crowns in pediatric dentistry, AEEDC, Dubai, 6th February 2014
- Challenges in pediatric oral healthcare, AEEDC, Dubai, 5th February 2014
- R. Tayara. Tooth talk for diabetic children. Dialeb 2013
- R. Tayara. Psychological management of children and young adolescents. Speaker at the scientific dental conferences – November 2011, accredited by HAAD (Health Authority of Abu Dhabi), Faculty of Medicine, UAE University, UAE
- R. Tayara. Management of epileptic children in pediatric dentistry. Speaker at the scientific dental conferences – June 2011, accredited by HAAD (Health Authority of Abu Dhabi), Faculty of Medicine, UAE University, UAE
- R. Tayara. Management of epileptic children in pediatric dentistry. Speaker at the Beirut International Dental Meeting – September 2010, Beirut, Lebanon
- R. Tayara, H. Buithieu. Infectious Endocarditis: Guilty or Not? Poster presentation presented at the Annual Congress of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, May 2007, San Antonio, Texas, USA
