From ameloblast to iconoclast: Remembering Aubrey.

The late Professor Aubrey Sheiham shaped dental public health as a discipline. He leaves behind cohorts of confident public health professionals in dentistry worldwide, including many former students, each with their own kaleidoscope of memories of him as teacher, mentor, colleague and friend. A paper that he published in The Lancet in 1977 famously challenged the prevailing paradigm on dental recalls. For such iconoclasm, I remember him as the dentist who dared disturb the universe.