About me

I have been a dentist for over 48 years, with extensive experience practising general dentistry including fillings, crowns, bridges, root fillings and dentures.

During a varied career, including owning my own practice for 25 years, I also had a part interest in a dental laboratory. I was also very involved with the training of dental nurses, being a member of the panel of examiners for their national examination for 20 years and running an evening class training course for them.

As well as writing articles for dental journals and giving lectures, I am also the co-author (with one of my nurses) of a textbook for trainee dental nurses studying to pass their national exam. It can be accessed online by clicking here.

After leaving my own practice I worked at what was the Dental Practice Board here in Eastbourne. This was an agency of the Department of Health administering NHS dentistry in England and Wales. While at the Board I was Manager of Monitoring and Compliance, developing and running computer systems to detect fraud in the NHS dental service. After six years there I took the early retirement available and returned to part time clinical work in other dentists' practices.

I also qualified as a Lead Auditor for ISO9000 Quality Management Systems and did audits of, mainly, dental laboratories.

As well as my part time dental practice work, I am currently a panel member of the General Dental Council's private patients complaints system.

I do have a particular interest in providing patients with a nice appearance. I don't use metal (silver) fillings any more, using only tooth coloured ('white') filling materials. You can see examples of these in the Cosmetic fillings section.

The practice where I work also provides several other services - click on the links to the left.

They will give you all the information you need to have a complete dental experience to enhance and maintain your oral health and appearance.

Separately from the practice I also provide a home visit service for housebound patients who need new or replacement dentures. This applies particularly to residents of care homes. It is for dentures only (no extractions, fillings, scaling or any other operative procedures). See that link for more details.

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