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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
Deryck John Eggleston was born in Kalgoorlie on 11th March 1933, the son of Frank Eggleston, a Pharmacist and Gertrude nee Aldridge. He was educated at Christ Church Grammar School and then entered the Dental School at the University of Western Australia. After qualifying as a dentist he went to London in 1956 to study medicine at University College Hospital qualifying MB BS in 1964. He began training in the then new specialty of Oral and Maxillo-facial surgery from 1968 to 1972 at Kings College Hospital London and the Eastman Dental Institute London under eminent oral surgeons Mr N. Rowe and Professor H. Killey. On returning to Perth in 1973 he was given the first dual appointment in oral surgery to both the Royal Perth Hospital and the Perth Dental Hospital where the University School of Dentistry was based. Deryck was appointed a Consultant at Fremantle Hospital in 1974 and made a visiting lecturer to the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of W.A. Professionally he has focused his attention on training registrars in the specialty of Oral and Maxillo-facial surgery and he has introduced a range of osteotomy surgical procedures to Western Australia. He is a member of the Australian Medical Association, the Australian Dental Association and the Australian and New Zealand Oral and Maxillofacial Association. He is the co-author of a book "A Manual of Oral Medicine" (Nally and Eggleston) in 1972 which ran to three editions. He has had published some 20 scientific papers in Australian and International Journals. Outside of dentistry Deryck is interested in Golf and Bridge. He is a member of the WA. Cricket Association and the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club. He is also interested in Geneaology. In 1963 Deryck married Dianne Tomlinson and they have two sons, Seth is a dentist and Toby is a lawyer. Deryck retired in 1999 and was appointed Emeritus Consultant Oral Surgeon. |
