Maggie qualified with distinction from Birmingham University Dental School in 1990 and after four years of training, gained a Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and a place to study Orthodontics.
She trained for three years in Birmingham and qualified as a specialist in 1997. Her first post was to run the Orthodontic Service in Dudley Community Trust.
Maggie later moved to Gloucestershire in September 2000 and lives in a village three miles from Cirencester with her husband Richard and their four boys.