Rate My Professor Noren Hasmun

Dr. Noren Nor Hasmun is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Paediatric Dentistry within the Department of Oral Sciences at the University of Otago Faculty of Dentistry. She earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), a Doctor of Clinical Dentistry (DClinDent) in Paediatric Dentistry from the University of Otago, and a PhD from the University of Sheffield. Her academic career at Otago includes clinical supervision for Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) and DClinDent Paediatric Dentistry students, as well as serving as co-coordinator for the DENT461 paper, The Dentist and the Patient 3. She provides clinical treatment for children aged 18 and under and supervises postgraduate research on topics such as aesthetic management of early carious lesions and translation and validation of oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) questionnaires into the Malay language.

Dr. Hasmun's research specializations centre on paediatric dentistry, with a particular emphasis on molar incisor hypomineralisation (MIH), developmental dental defects, aesthetic management of hypomineralised anterior teeth, early carious lesions, and OHRQoL in children. Her PhD investigated the impact of minimally invasive aesthetic treatments for MIH-affected anterior teeth on children's OHRQoL. She contributes to international multi-centre studies, including investigations into co-existing dental anomalies like hypodontia in children with MIH. Key publications include: Nazzal et al. (2025), 'Prevalence of hypodontia and other developmental dental anomalies in children with or without molar incisor hypomineralisation,' Journal of Dentistry; Ismail et al. (2025), 'The development and psychometric properties of Malay language Child Oral Health Impact Profile-Short Form 19,' Healthcare; Hasmun et al. (2020), 'Determinants of children's oral health-related quality of life following comprehensive management of molar-incisor hypomineralisation,' Pediatric Dentistry; Hasmun et al. (2018), 'Change in Oral Health-Related Quality of Life Following Minimally Invasive Aesthetic Treatment for Children with Molar Incisor Hypomineralisation,' Dentistry Journal; and Rodd et al. (2023), 'An International Investigation of Molar Incisor Hypomineralisation,' Dentistry Journal. She is a member of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry, International Association of Paediatric Dentistry, Malaysian Association of Paediatric Dentistry, and Developmental Dental Defects Group (D3G).