The Team

Russell then took a post as Senior House Officer in Conservative Dentistry at the Royal London Hospital for eighteen months before embarking on a Masters degree in Conservative Dentistry at Guys Hospital. He was invited to teach both undergraduate and postgraduate students at Guys and combined this with being Principal of a Specialist Private Practice in Orpington Kent. Russell was accredited as a Specialist in Prosthodontics by the GDC in 2001.

He holds a Fellowship in Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and a Membership in Restorative Dentistry (Prosthodontics) from the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Russell was President of his local BDA branch in 1994 and served on the committee for four years.

He continues to own and run a Specialist Restorative Practice in Kent and combines this with Specialist Practice in London's West End. He has a keen interest in Implant Dentistry, having been involved with it for over 20 years.

Katharine has worked and taught at a number of UK Dental Hospitals, gaining widespread experience reconstructing failing teeth and mouths with crown and bridgework, dentures, dental implants, veneers and repairing jaw and occlusal (bite) issues. She is also an expert at solving other complex dental issues including advanced tooth wear, restoring missing teeth, designing smiles, improving smiles, and stabilising dental health.

Katharine is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and is a General Dental Council registered Specialist in Prosthodontics. She is also the elected Chairperson of the British Dental Association (BDA) for 2018 – 2019 Cambridge section.

He has been on the General Dental Council Specialist Register in Periodontics since 2000 and has worked exclusively within this field to the present day. He is currently in private practice limited to periodontology and implant dentistry and is a part-time Consultant in Periodontology with a special interest in implant dentistry within Guys and St Thomas NHS trust at Guys Hospital. This involves providing implant treatment for complex cases and teaching implant dentistry to post-graduate doctors and trainees. He has held positions in some of London’s major dental institutes and has been a guest lecturer and contributor to a number of masters programs in the UK. Kia continues to work closely with implant companies in development of products that improve treatment outcomes and patient experience. He is one of an international group of clinicians who contributed to a textbook on Essentials of Esthetic Dentistry published by Elsevier in 2015. This is in addition to numerous publications over the past 25 years, and both national and international presentations. His current areas of interests are soft tissue aesthetics on both natural teeth and dental implants, immediate implant placement and treatment protocols for management of peri-implantitis.

Over the past two decades Kia has treated many thousands of patients and has established a referral based practice in central London with a reputation for outstanding patient care and clinical excellence. His experience means that he is able to deal with complex implant and periodontal cases.

During this time, she further completed an MSc in Conservative Dentistry for which she was awarded a distinction and research prize nomination for her dissertation. Ishpinder passed her Royal College Intercollegiate Specialty Fellowship exams and was entered onto the GDC specialist list for Restorative Dentistry in 2019 and awarded the FDS (Rest Dent) RCS Eng in 2020. She has recently completed a postgraduate teaching qualification in clinical education from King’s College London, for which she achieved a distinction, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Member of the Academy of Medical Educators.

Ishpinder was appointed to her current post as Consultant of Restorative Dentistry at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in 2020, where she provides clinical treatment for advanced restorative cases including head and neck oncology patients, patients with developmental anomalies and patients requiring combined orthodontic/restorative input. She further provides treatment planning advice for patients referred from general dental practitioners. Ishpinder is an educational supervisor for dental trainees and is heavily involved in providing teaching, mentoring and career development for junior dentists. She currently serves as a clinical lead for the undergraduate specialty clinics as part of her Consultant role. Ishpinder has recently co-edited the RCS guidelines on erosive tooth wear and is published in a number of peer reviewed journals. Outside of clinical dentistry, she holds an Assistant Secretary position with Restorative Dentistry UK, the professional membership organisation for restorative specialists and is committed to improving standards of care and raising the profile of the specialty.

She joined the Restorative Dental Practice in 2022 and her practice focuses on treatment of patients requiring prosthodontic treatment, implant dentistry, and multidisciplinary restorative cases including the management of head and neck oncology patients and patients with dental anomalies.

He worked in the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics of Rome, Tor Vergata University and was an Endodontics consultant in the Fatebene Fratelli Hospital in Rome.

Vittorio is Specialist member of European Society of Endodontology (ESE) and at present, he is the Treasurer of the Society. He has been President of the Italian Society of Endodontics of the Society and served on the editorial Board of the Italian Endodontic Journal, and he is reviewer for many international journals and author of many scientific articles. Vittorio also contributes as trainer, developer, and tester with leading factories of Endodontic tools. He lectures nationally and internationally and is a visiting professor at many academic postgraduate courses in Endodontics.

He works exclusively in Endodontics and Endodontic Surgery under microscopic magnification on referred patients since 1998. He is registered in the UK on the GDC specialist list in Endodontics.