Dr. Nadia AhmedThe Orthodontic Centre

Nadia is a Consultant Orthodontist at Rotherham General Hospital alongside working at the practice as a Specialist Orthodontist. She offers Invisalign, spark aligners and fixed braces for both children and adults and strives to provide the best possible orthodontic treatment for her patients, ensuring the patient journey is a positive experience. Since completing Dental School in 2007, Nadia has shown her passion for learning and developing new skills as she embarked on her path to specialise. She gained experience in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Medicine, Radiology and Paediatric Dentistry in the early part of her hospital career. The journey to becoming a Specialist and Consultant Orthodontist took Nadia across the Midlands and Yorkshire, gaining a wide range of experience in various hospitals, which shaped her training experience. She carried out her specialist training in Leeds and gained the Membership in Orthodontics from the Royal College of Surgeons England in 2016, alongside undertaking research in autotransplantation of teeth, and passed her MSc with Merit from the University of Leeds. Since 2016, she has built her experience in specialist Orthodontic practice. Further training in Birmingham Dental Hospital to become a Consultant in 2018-2020 led to the Fellowship in Orthodontics. During this final part of training, she enjoyed treating patients needing multidisciplinary treatment and in particular Orthognathic surgery and hypodontia (missing teeth), as well as regularly attending Birmingham's Children's' Hospital to attend cleft clinics with the multidisciplinary team in one of four craniofacial units in the UK. Nadia has completed a postgraduate certificate in dental education and has a passion for teaching. She has been involved in a number of Orthodontic books for postgraduate exams and is a lecturer for the London Dental Institute Postgraduate diploma in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics. Nadia is the Honorary Secretary to the British Orthodontic Society Orthodontic Specialists Group and has worked with the Clinical Governance group to provide a number of information leaflets for patients and colleagues. She was appointed Chair of the British Dental Association Central Committee for Hospital Dental Services in 2022 and served in this role until 2024. Nadia has started yoga teaching training, is a proud student of the largest international dance academy, ‘SHIAMAK Bollywood Dance,’ and enjoys hiking in her spare time. She loves spending time in her kitchen and has successfully reached the interview stage of the ‘Great British Bake Off’ in 2021 and 2022. She regularly attends art classes. She certified as a life coach in 2021 and has been invited to speak on this topic on a number of occasions to fellow dental professionals and writes articles regularly for ‘Dentistry’ and BDJ In practice.