Dr. Van Dooren attended the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he received his dentistry degree in 1982.
After graduating, he opened a private practice in Antwerp, Belgium, which is limited to periodontics, fixed prosthodontics, and implants.
Currently, Dr. Van Dooren is an active member of the European Academy of Esthetic Dentistry. In addition, he is a member of the editorial staff of Teamwork (Germany) and a member of the Belgian Dental Society.
Dr. Van Dooren lectures nationally and internationally, mainly on aesthetics, implants and aesthetic periodontal surgery. He has published several articles in international journals and is co-author of The Art of Smile.
Dr Riz Syed
Dr Riz Syed qualified in 1999 at the Royal London Hospital after which he worked in the Oral Maxillo-Facial surgical department. Following this, he worked in numerous specialist surgical practices for a number of years.
He then completed a restorative and implant training course.Since then he has successfully completed extensive post graduate studies in both implant and restorative dentistry.
He has trained extensively in both America and Europe in advanced soft and hard tissue management and has completed an advanced training course in oral plastic surgery in Dallas, Texas.
He has established two large referral surgeries in the last five years. His practice also includes sinus grafting, surgical crown lengthening and hard and soft tissue grafting.
In 2005 Riz was one of the first surgeons to use the Nobel Guide surgery.
Dr Syed lectures both national and international on all aspects of implant dentistry including hard and soft tissue management and Nobel guide. He is also a visiting surgeon to numerous surgeries across London
As a mentor for Nobel Biocare, he has helped to train implant surgeons across the UK and is regularly consulted for treatment planning complex cases.
He is a member of the Association of Dental Implantology (ADI), International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
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John Wibberley
John started his career as one of the first full time students studying for a Certificate in Dental Technology, qualifying in 1978 from Manchester Polytechnic. John’s first appointment was in the Department of Prosthodontics at Manchester Dental Hospital.
Eight months later he then moved to North Manchester General Hospital gaining more experience in a maxillofacial unit. After gaining his advanced City and Guilds in crown and bridgework John joined the RAF dental branch in 1980. Leaving the RAF in 1982, John gained valuable experience in several different commercial laboratories, and hospitals until eventually opening his own lab, Portland Ceramics in August 1985, specialising in implantology and high quality restorations. In March 2001, Portland Ceramics was acquired by Boots Dental Care. In May 2005, John set up Waters Edge Ceramics and currently employ’s 17 full-time, registered technicians.
John has travelled extensively attending courses in France, Germany, Italy and Holland and has visited the USA over forty times, attending and lecturing in courses and conferences. He has also presented to the Association of Dental Implantology, the British Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry and Nobel Biocare World Conference in Las Vegas May 2007.
In June 2005 John was awarded a Fellowship of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists award. He continues to teach advanced laboratory processes and techniques to other technicians from his training laboratory at home in Saddleworth.
John has two aspiring, young technicians in his son and daughter, Christian and Gemma. Gemma started her career in the Gold department at Portland Ceramics, whilst the laboratory was under the management of Boots. She is now growing her skills as a Crown and Bridge technician by training as a Porcelain Technician when she’s not helping her father manage all aspects of laboratory administration.
Christian began his life as a dental technician in the Gold department of Waters Edge Ceramics. He is now training to become a Clinical Dental Technician at the Kent, Sussex and Surrey (KSS) Deanery. Both brother and sister graduated together in the summer of 2009, with a Foundation Science Degree in Dental Technology from Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Andrew James Towlerton BDS DRDP
Andrew qualified from Birmingham University Dental School in 1991. Two years in General Practice were followed by nine years in the Royal Air Force Dental Branch where he reached the rank of Squadron Leader. One of the greatest benefits that Andrew remembers of practice within the Armed Forces was an ability to develop enhanced clinical skills, free of the constraints that he experienced in general practice. This emphasis on producing high quality dentistry, and the focus on post graduate education, has been a motivating factor for him since returning to civilian practice.
In 2002 he entered into the Restorative Dentistry program at the Eastman Dental Institute (UCL). Over a five year period he studied a broad range of advanced restorative dental techniques, including a year of dental material science and a further year studying sports related dental trauma. The final stage of the course is the requirement to present 20 individual items of clinical work and two multidisciplinary patient treatment log diaries for examination and viva. In 2008 he passed the Diploma in Restorative Dental Practice (DRDP) with a Distinction During this time he also completed the 18 month ‘One to One’ implant course at Sheffield University Dental School. The program involves hands on training of planning, placement and restoration of implants on the patients that attend the implant clinics.
He is a keen photographer and combines this with his passion for aesthetic dentistry. He finds the greatest challenge of modern dentistry is tailoring treatment plans that match patient expectation whilst ensuring that the restorations placed have long term functional stability. Andrew co-owns a Private Practice in Nottinghamshire where he strives to provide no compromise dentistry, tailored to the patients requirements and to the realities of maintaining a busy General Practice.
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