drg. Muhammad Reza Pahlevi, Ph.D, commonly known as drg. Reza, is a lecturer in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He completed his studies as a Dentist in 2018. A year later, he began his doctoral studies at Tokushima University, Japan, and earned his Ph.D. in 2023. Currently, he is actively training professional students at RSGM Prof. Soedomo UGM by supervising minor oral surgeries such as extractions and odontectomies.
drg. Reza is keenly interested in research on antimicrobial resistance and its relation to oral surgery. His doctoral research focused on detecting antibiotic-resistance genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that causes surgical site infections. His findings were published in the top-tier Q1 journal Antibiotics under the title “pruR and PA0065 Genes Are Responsible for Decreasing Antibiotic Tolerance by Autoinducer Analog-1 (AIA-1) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa."
In 2022, he received the Outstanding Poster Award at The 142nd Fall Conference of The Korean Society for Microbiology and The 15th Japan-Korea International Symposium on Microbiology. In the same year, he was awarded the Silver Award at the Research Award for Oral Science at Tokushima University. His interest in research is quite profound; he authored a meta-analysis titled “Chlorhexidine reduces the incidence of alveolar osteitis even in the absence of systemic antibiotics: a meta-analysis.” As an emerging researcher, he received the 2024 Community Fund Grant and will conduct a study titled “The Effect of Chlorhexidine on the Healing of Third Molar Odontectomy Wounds.”
