Dr Harry Ball

BDSc L.D.S. (Melb), FDSM (ASA), M Counsell (La Trobe), Grad Dip Counsell & H.S. (La Trobe)
Past Co-Chair  Dental Sleep Council, Australasian Sleep Association

Dr Ball is the immediate past chairperson of the dental sleep medicine council of the Australasian Sleep Association. He has restricted his practice to dental sleep medicine and is one of the most experienced practitioners in the world, establishing Sleepwise Clinic which has treated over 16,000 patients with oral appliance therapy.

Dr Ball has organised and presented training programs for dentists throughout Australia and New Zealand as well as in the United Kingdom, Holland, Belgium, Singapore and Malaysia. He has presented on sleep to GPs, sleep physicians as well as on behalf of the Australian Dental Association, the Australian Orthodontic society and Dental Health Services of Victoria.

Dr Ball has also been involved as a principal clinician at the Temporomandibular Disorders Pain Clinic at the Royal Melbourne Dental Hospital.

Publications

Kennedy, Gerard & Ball, Harry. (2007). Power break: A brief hypnorelaxation program to reduce work-related fatigue and improve work satisfaction, productivity, and well-being. Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. 35. 169-193.