Dr David Wong
Clinical Interest:
Artificial Disc Replacement surgery for cervical and lumbar spine, minimally invasive spine surgery including percutaneous disc nucleoplasty, percutaneous biacuplasty, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, and minimally invasive microdiscectomy. Hybrid spinal fusion for chronic low back pain, revision spinal surgery for Failed Back Syndrome, and spinal deformity correction surgery.
Profile:
Dr David Wong is an Orthopaedic Surgeon at Raffles Hospital and visiting spine consultant to SGH since 2005 and was appointed visiting spine consultant to Dubai Hospital in 2006. Dr Wong graduated from NUS in 1985 and was trained as a fellow at the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham, England in 1998. His surgical training encompasses extensive exposure to the treatment of various spinal conditions, including scoliosis, spinal tumors and infection, spinal fractures and degenerative conditions causing neck and back pain. He is able to perform Artificial Disc Replacement surgery for chronic neck and low back pain, as well as thoracoscopic scoliosis surgery. He specialises in percutaneous nucleoplasty, biacuplasty, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty. He had conducted many workshops for these procedures both locally and regionally. He is also a local faculty member for AO Spine and member of the Spine Section of the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association.
Dr Wong has been with Raffles Hospital for over 10 years.
Qualifications:
MBBS (S’pore), FRCS (Glasg)
