Consultant Specialist Periodontist

Dr Omar Patel is one of very few consultant specialist periodontists in the United Kingdom. Dr Patel was awarded the Diploma of Membership of the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2007 and the Diploma of Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2008. In 2016, he was awarded the Masters in Clinical Dentistry in Periodontics from King's College, London, with merit and passed the Membership in Periodontics examination from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. He was a Specialist Registrar in Periodontics at Guy's Hospital, London, for four years undertaking all aspects of periodontal therapy including surgical, non-surgical, muco-gingival and implant therapy.

As well as providing periodontal care at the practice, he is an active member of the British Society of Periodontology and has a special interest in the association between periodontal disease and diabetes. In 2015, he received the Ron F. Wilson postgraduate research award from King’s College London for clinical research and has presented his research internationally.. He was recently awarded the position of examiner for the Licence in Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons, England, the oldest continuously existing dental qualification in the United Kingdom.