Dr. Mohammed GhafoorGhafoor, Mohammed

Dr Ghafoor is a Cosmetic and Reconstructive Dental Surgeon with a special interest in Facial Aesthetics. Dr Ghafoor who qualified from the Royal London Dental Hospital in 2002 with distinctions in several modules undertook his vocational training at the University of Birmingham dental practice. He then went on to complete a postgraduate training at the renowned intensive implantology hands on course at Tatum’s Institute and then went onto complete the comprehensive restorative and aesthetics course at Smile Concepts clinic held by Dominic Hassell. This provided a strong foundation in his Basic Surgical, restorative & cosmetic dentistry skills combined with Implant treatment. His keen interest not only included reconstructive and cosmetic dentistry but also extended in managing and treating dental phobic patients and has carried out extensive treatment under relative analgesia and IV sedation. Dr Ghafoor also has considerable experience in community dentistry and also in the hospital setting when he worked as a Senior house officer in Oral & Maxillofacial surgery. As well as fine tuning his surgical acumen he also acquired the ability to treat patients competently under general anaesthesia carrying out a wide range of minor oral surgery treatment. This included dentoalveolar surgery comprising of wisdom teeth extractions, soft tissue biopsies, apicectomies, incision & drainage of dental abscesses. He also had on-call commitments and cross covered both oral & maxillofacial and ENT emergencies. He also assisted in major head & neck oncology surgical cases and orthognathic surgery during his role as an SHO. In 2008 Dr Ghafoor obtained his Membership from the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Mohammed has carried out several audits and has also authored and co-authored a number of publications to his name, and recently presented at the British Association of Oral Maxillofacial surgery conference in Nice 2011. He has also published in the British Dental Journal, Journal of Maxillofacial & Oral surgery and Triple OOOE journal. He has also authored the first e-textbook for dental undergraduates an aide memoir titled as Mnemonics in Dentistry available from www.dentalmnemonics.com. Dr Ghafoor has a special interest in Oral surgery and offers a wide range of minor oral surgical services and welcomes referrals for wisdom teeth extractions, complex extractions, apicectomies and excisional biopsies. Dr Ghafoor has achieved training in a wide areas of facial aesthetics and was awarded a distinction in the PGCert from world renowned University of Queen Mary's London.