Dr. Rita Maloney is an Australian-registered specialist endodontist. She holds a Bachelor of Dental Science (Hons) and a Doctorate of Clinical Dentistry, and is a Member of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons. She has practiced for 23 years and performed approximately 14,000 root canal treatments.
She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Maloney Review.
Standing disclosures
Dr. Maloney holds no commercial relationships with any reviewed clinic, marketplace, manufacturer, or industry body. She does not draw consulting fees from, hold equity in, sit on advisory boards of, or accept travel or accommodation from any entity that is reviewed or could plausibly be reviewed by the publication.
If that ever changes, the change will be disclosed on the /disclosures/ page and in the opening 100 words of every affected piece.
Credentials
- BDSc (Hons) — Bachelor of Dental Science with Honours
- DClinDent — Doctorate of Clinical Dentistry (Endodontics)
- MRACDS — Member of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons
- AHPRA registered (specialist endodontist)
Selected writing
- The dental tourism trust gap — a structural account of why a sophisticated patient cannot, at the point of decision, distinguish a good international clinic from a bad one, and an audit of the seven remedies in circulation.
- Why most dental implants do not need bone grafting — the four real indications, the four mainstream alternatives, and the cost line item to ask about by name.
- When to save a tooth and when to replace it — the orthograde retreatment / microsurgery / extraction-and-implant decision tree, with the published outcome data on each.