Salahudeen is presently head of the Directorate of Dental & Oral Health Department. He is Chairman of the Oral Health Programme in the central executive committee for Oman national oral health plan.  A member of the Gulf oral health committee, the Executive office for the Gulf corporation council Ministers of Health. He did his undergraduate dental training at the Cork Dental School, Ireland (1977), and he received a Masters in Dental Public Health at Cardiff University. In 2001 he became a Member of the Faculty of Dentistry Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.