She received her dental education in Cairo University, graduating in 1979 , magna cum laude. She completed her post graduate education at the “Victoria University of Manchester”, England, at the department of Prosthodontics, and Dental Materials Research, obtaining her PhD degree in 1983. Her thesis, “Methods of Polymerization Of Dental Resins”, was one of the first original research projects that introduced microwave polymerization of dentures, as a viable method of processing acrylic resin dentures, into the dental field. She is also Fellow Of the American Dental Academy International.