#6 Dr Ismail (ISH) Larney - Escaped Apartheid, Sculpts Dental Prosthetics, volunteers half his time every year

This is a must listen - Dr Ismail Larney has overcome adversity to achieve many accolades which is an understatement of what he has done in his life. He is incredibly generous volunteering most his time involved in making a change in the world mainly in South Africa and Australia. In this podcast he talks about his childhood, family, career, growing up in Apartheid South Africa as a non-white person in the Cape Flats and more. 

Ish became involved in Dental Prosthetics (Dentures) through his passion for painting and sculpturing. From a very young infant, he carved his family's fire wood. He found a wonderful way to link a career to this lifelong hobby, by restoring the facial features of maxilla facial patients. He manufactured artificial eyes, noses, ears, Cast metal Splints and obturators for many years, at the Sydney (United) Dental Hospital. He attributes his success in his career to his core values on ethics, responsibility, hard work and treating individuals with dignity and respect. Ish became a Dental tutor in 1986 and retired from tutoring in December 2019. However, his retirement was short lived and the other aspects of working with maxilla facial patients, retirement village patients, Regional patients which incorporates the individualisation of Dentures that becomes one with its owner, has increased exponentially. Ish maintains that Denture making is his hobby and definitely not work.