Dr Liu is the founder of May Flower Dental. She graduated with the obtain of PhD degree from Peking University School of Stomatology in Beijing in 1998. She worked as an associate professor and associate clinical professor in the Department of Periodontology, School of Stomatology, Peking University from 1998 to 2002. Most of the work was clinical practice, teaching and doing research. She received postdoctoral training at Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University in USA from 2002 to 2005. She founded May Flower Dental in 2006 after she came back from Boston with the dream of establishing a private dental clinic with good quality. At that time there were short of professional private dental clinics with good quality and good service due to the public health system in China. Almost all the experts like her used to work at public hospital. So she was the pioneer who quited the job at famous university and practiced at private clinic. Even though Dr Liu did a lot of research work in dental medicine and published papers on famous international journals she has more interest in clinical practice that could bring the immediate happiness to the people around her. With the concept of providing good quality dental care to the patients she focus continuously on the professional training of team, introduction of new technology and equipment other than the opening of more new clinics. Dr Liu has expertise in gum disease treatment and implant. Her concept is that the doctor should do as much as you can to do the surgery in simple with minimal invasion other than in complicated way. For complicated case she is the doctor who organize the relative experts to do the diagnosis and make treatment plan.

Research papers published by Dr Rongkun Liu:

Liu R, Bal HS, Desta T, Krothapalli N, Alyassi M, Luan Q, Graves DT. Diabetes enhances periodontal bone loss through enhanced resorption and diminished bone formation. Journal of Dental Research. 2006 Jun;85(6):510-4.

Liu R, Bal HS, Desta T, Behl Y, Graves DT. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha mediates diabetes-enhanced apoptosis of matrix-producing cells and impairs diabetic healing. American Journal of Pathology. 2006 Mar;168(3):757-64.

Liu R, Desta T, He H, Graves DT. Diabetes alters the response to bacteria by enhancing fibroblast apoptosis. Endocrinology. 2004 Jun;145(6):2997-3003.

Graves DT, Liu R, Alikhani M, Al-Mashat H and Trackman PC. Diabetes-enhanced inflammation and apoptosis--impact on periodontal pathology. Journal of Dental Research. 2006 Jan;85(1):15-21.

Liu RK, Cao CF, Meng HX & Gao Y. Polymorphonuclear neutrophils and their mediators in gingival tissues from generalized aggressive periodontitis. Journal of Periodontology. 2001 Nov;72(11):1545-53.

Liu RK, Cao CF, Meng HX & Tang ZHH. Leukocytes functions in two c.ases of Papillon-Lefevre syndrome. Journal of Clinical Periodontology 2000; 27: 69-73.

He H, Liu R, Desta T, Leone C, Gerstenfeld LC, Graves DT. Diabetes causes decreased osteoclastogenesis, reduced bone formation, and enhanced apoptosis of osteoblastic cells in bacteria stimulated bone loss. Endocrinology. 2004 Jan;145(1):447-52.

Alikhani M, Alikhani Z, Boyd C, MacLellan CM, Raptis M, Liu R, Pischon N, Trackman PC, Gerstenfeld L, Graves DT. Advanced glycation end products stimulate osteoblast apoptosis via the MAP kinase and cytosolic apoptotic pathways. Bone. 2007 Feb;40(2):345-53.

Al-Mashat HA, Kandru S, Liu R, Behl Y, Desta T, Graves DT. Diabetes enhances mRNA levels of proapoptotic genes and caspase activity, which contribute to impaired healing. Diabetes. 2006 Feb;55(2):487-95.

Graves DT, Al-Mashat H, Liu R. Evidence that diabetes mellitus aggravates periodontal diseases and modifies the response to an oral pathogen in animal models. Compend Contin Educ Dent. 2004 Jul;25(7 Suppl 1):38-45.

Alikhani M, Alikhani Z, He H, Liu R, Popek BI, Graves DT. Lipopolysaccharides indirectly stimulate apoptosis and global induction of apoptotic genes in fibroblasts. Journal of Biology and Chemistry. 2003 Dec 26;278(52):52901-8.