With over 30 years clinical experience, mostly as the principal of her private practice, Alannah is a dedicated and caring practitioner. Currently she works 4 days a week in her practice and supervises final year dental students one day per week. Alannah also has served as an examiner for the Australian Dental Council for the last 10 years. She graduated from the School of Dentistry, University of Queensland in 1982. Since then she has undertaken further studies, becoming a Fellow of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (1998), and at UQ obtaining a Masters degree for research into the effects of dental amalgam on the immune system (2005). She has studied complimentary medicine modalities including courses run by Universal Medicine: Sacred Esoteric Healing Levels 1-4, Connective Tissue Therapy, and Chakra-puncture.