St. Helens Dental

Principal Dental Surgeon. BDS, MFGDP, RCS. Country of issue: UK. GDC registration number: 43263. She qualified in 1969 from Newcastle upon Tyne Dental School. She established St Helens Dental practice in 1984 with only five patients - her husband Richard and their four children! She is now Principal dentist with 5 other associate dentists and four hygienists. part from working in her practice she was on the board of Dental Protection Limited (DPL) for 9 years and the Medical Protection Society Council. She has been a past Director of the Northern Division of the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners, a member of the Governments Standing Dental Advisory Committee and on Cumbria Local Dental Committee for 17 years. She was an elected member of the GDC for 9 years. She is currently a Life President of Denplan, a BDA Spokesperson and on the Advisory Boards of the Dentist magazine and DPL. Her special interests were working with nervous patients and special need children especially those with Autism. She has very reduced clinical commitment, helping out with children’s sessions only. She was awarded the MBE for services to standards in dentistry in 2000. Outside of dentistry she was a school and college governor working in Primary Secondary and Further education Colleges for 37 years. She loves her garden and entertaining and adores her many grandchildren.

Dental Surgeon. BDS. GDC registration number: 58992. Qualifying from Newcastle University in 1984, Amanda went home to Southport to spend the first 18 months of her career working in Ormskirk, before moving to Pooley Bridge and joining St Helens Dental Practice in 1986. Married to Nigel in 1987, they subsequently had three sons and so for a while the demands of a young family meant that Amanda worked closer to home in Penrith. In 2005 she was able to return to Cockermouth and has now taken over as Clinical Director for Meredyth.

Dental Surgeon. BDS (Sheffield) MFDS RCS (Edin) Dip Imp Dent RCS (Eng) (Adv Cert). GDC registration number: 79501. He aims to provide a comprehensive range of dental treatment, delivered with a gentle and caring approach. His special interests are: restorative dentistry; provision of high quality dentures using the advanced Swiss Gerber system; and dental implants. He graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2001. This was followed by 4 years in Senior House Officer training posts (Restorative Dentistry; Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery) in the North of England (Liverpool, Rotherham/Doncaster, Chesterfield, Leeds); and several months in a general practice in Halifax, West Yorkshire. He obtained the MFDS RCSEd postgraduate diploma in 2004, and has also passed the examinations for the MJDF RCSEng diploma (2008), which he aims to complete in 2010 on submission of his Clinical Portfolio. He achieved Denplan Excel accreditation in 2009. He has completed a one year hands-on course (2008) in Restorative Dentistry with the North of England Dental Academy in Leeds. He has also completed (2009) a one year foundation course in dental implantology in London with Dr. Fazeela Khan-Osbourne and Dr. Neil Cooper. Noel is currently enrolled on a further two year implant training program in London and Germany, which will eventually lead to a diploma in implant dentistry from the Faculty of General Dental Practice, The Royal College of Surgeons of England. He has a keen interest in voluntary dentistry, and has been involved with many humanitarian organizations in the UK and overseas. In addition to London and Salisbury, his travels have taken him to serve communities in Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya, Mexico, Honduras, and Vietnam. Away from the surgery, his main interests are landscape photography and spending time with his family.