Dr Raya Karaganeva BSc (Hons) PhD AFHEA

Raya is a registered dental technician, who is currently a tutor at Manchester Met University and an associate member of the Musculoskeletal Science and Sports Medicine Research Centre. Raya completed a PhD in 2019, which examined the effects of custom-made mouthguards on retention, comfort and physiological parameters during exercise. Afterwards, she continued as a postdoctoral researcher at Manchester Met University and worked together with Dental Trauma UK and the Dental Technologists Association to raise awareness of the necessity to increase user compliance with mouthguards and decrease the rate of oral injuries. Raya has previously delivered CPD seminars for Health Education England and presented as invited speaker at the Orthodontic Technicians Association Annual Conference and the National Congress of the Italian Society of Sports Dentistry.