Introduction to Occlusion for Early Career Dentists – Speakers

Having graduated from Edinburgh in 1976, Dr Tom Bereznicki FCGDent immediately moved to London and worked as a House Surgeon rotating around Departments at Guy’s and The Royal Dental Hospitals before entering general dental practice in 1978. In 1982, he opened his own single-handed private practice as a ‘squat’ in Queensgate, London, before moving himself and his patients to join The Dawood & Tanner Dental Practice in Wimpole Street in January 2011. His Special Interests lie in all aspects of Restorative Dentistry but in particular, Occlusion and Emergence Profile.

In October 2013 until August 2022, Tom was appointed as a Visiting Clinical Specialist Teacher in The Department of Education within The Dental Institute at King’s College London.  From April 2018 to May 2018, he became Staff President of The Kings Students Dental Society and then reappointed as for the year April 2021 to 2022. In 2018 he was appointed as a Member of The Kings Dental Alumni Association Council finishing his term of Office in June 2022.

In May 2018 Tom was awarded one of King’s College London’s prestigious Teaching Excellence Awards – Teaching Experience. In 2019 he was nominated for the 2019 Kings Education Award – Student Support.

In March 2017 to February 2021, he served on The Advisory Board in Primary Dental Care at The Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. In July 2017 until January 2022, he also served on the Steering Group of The Faculty of Dental Trainers at The Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. In March 2018 he became a Member of The Faculty of Dental Trainers at The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (MFDTEd). In July 2018 he became a Member of the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners at The Royal College of Surgeons, England. In November 2018 he became a Founder Member of the newly formed College of General Dentistry and has been a Fellow of the College since 2022.

In January 2021 he joined the Academy of Dental Excellence Faculty as a Senior Specialist Faculty Teacher. Starting in September 2021, he joined the Teaching Faculty at The University of Portsmouth as a Partner Associate Lecturer delivering the new PG Diploma in Advanced Aesthetic and Restorative Dentistry. In February 2023 he joined the Teaching Faculty of Kings College Dentistry Aesthetic Masterclass MSc course.

More recently he has set up The Tom Bereznicki Charitable Educational Foundation which supports educational initiatives for early career dental professionals. In 2023, The Foundation, in association with the College of General Dentistry and GC, successfully  launched a clinical competition for Foundation Dentists. Other competitions and lectures are planned for the future

A range of educational resources can be found on Tom’s website tombereznicki.com

Professor Paul Tipton FCGDent is an internationally acclaimed Prosthodontist who has worked in private practice for more than 30 years. He is the founder of Tipton Training, Europe’s leading private dental training institution and the author of over 100 scientific articles for the dental press. A passionate and charismatic speaker, Paul has been teaching for over 30 years, both in the UK and internationally.

He was voted one of the ‘most influential dentists in the UK’ by his peers in Dentistry Magazine in 2013 and in the top 3 dentists in Aesthetic Dentistry’s 25 poll, November 2012. 

In 2021 Prof Tipton was voted one of the “World’s Top 100 Doctors” by the Global Summits.

In 2022 Prof Paul Tipton was amongst the few awarded for the “Dentistry’s Top 50 Dentists 2022”.

Most recently in November 2022 Professor Paul Tipton won the Kimberley Finlayson ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ in recognition for his outstanding contributions to private dentistry and dental education.

Professor Tipton qualified from Sheffield University in 1978 and in 1982 opened his own referral practice in Manchester. He continued to build his skills, studying at Eastman Dental Hospital in London, where after 2 years of study, he obtained a Masters Degree in Conservative Dentistry in 1989. In the same year he started teaching on the University of Manchester’s MSc in Restorative Dentistry. He is now a lecturer on their MSc programme in Aesthetic and Restorative Dentistry and also lectures at Kings College London (LonDEC).

In 1991 Professor Tipton founded his private dental training academy, Tipton Training. During this time, Tipton Training have successfully trained over 5,000 dentists and this number continues to rise year after year.

In 1992, Professor Tipton was awarded an honorary Diploma in General Dental Practice from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and was appointed a member of the British Dental Association’s Independent Practice Committee. In 1999, he was certified as a Specialist in Prosthodontics by the General Dental Council.

Professor Paul Tipton is on the editorial board of Private Dentistry Magazine, Restorative & Aesthetic Practice and Implant Dentistry and is a medical writer and part of the advisory board at Expert Beauty Magazine and ‘Woman’s’ magazine. He was a founding member and on the Board of Directors of the British Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry and the British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry.

He is currently the President of the British Academy of Restorative Dentistry and was recently elected Fellow of the International Academy of Dental Facial Esthetics (IADFE).

Prof. Tipton practices at his clinics in Manchester, Nottingham and London.  Further details can be found at www.drpaultipton.co.uk or www.tclinic.co.uk.

Dr Ken Harris FCGDent graduated with BDS from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1982. He passed MFGDP(UK) in 1996 and achieved Fellowship of Royal College of General Dental Practice FFGDP(UK) in 2017. Fellowship of the newly established College of General Dentistry (FCGDent) in 2020 was quickly followed by Fellowship in Dental Surgery from Royal College of Surgeons of England (FDS RCS) in 2021. He also holds an MSc (with distinction) from the University of Manchester in Restorative & Aesthetic Dentistry (2014). Ken maintains a multi-award winning, fully private referral practice in Sunderland specialising in complex dental reconstruction cases based upon sound treatment planning protocols. As one of only 3 Accredited Fellows of British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (BACD) 2010, he acts as tutor and examiner for the BACD Accreditation process. Ken was the first UK Graduate of the prestigious Kois Centre in Seattle USA (2008) where he now acts as a Mentor, and despite being a full-time practitioner, he still manages to fulfil a busy teaching schedule both nationally and internationally.

Ken’s practice website is www.riveredge.co.uk

Tif Qureshi qualified from Kings College London in 1992. He is a private practitioner based near London.  

He is the chairman of IAS Academy, an international faculty that provides mentored education for general dentists on a pathway from appropriate simple to comprehensive restoratively focused orthodontics.  Tif helps to lead and educate a network of trainers and mentors internationally, ensuring quality delivery of education and ongoing mentoring.  Tif has a special interest in orthodontics and truly minimally invasive restorative dentistry. He is also interested in monitoring the long- term benefits of this kind of scalable interceptive treatment.

He sits on the board of the British Association of Private Dentistry. Tif is also a Fellow of the College of General Dentistry and the International College of Dentists. He has won several prestigious awards including the Sverker Prize in Sweden and the Lifetime Contribution to Aesthetic Dentistry in the UK. He is one of the Past Presidents of the British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry

Tif has committed his life’s work to empowering dentists to offer a wide variety of treatments to many more patients. He was the original global pioneer of the “Align, Bleach, Bond” concept and Progressive Smile Design and teaches widely using clear aligners. He is also an experienced teacher in the Dahl concept to assist in minimally invasive, patient-centred dentistry.   Tif lectures extensively internationally and has had many articles published on all these subjects.

Find out more about IAS Academy at www.iasortho.com

Dr Shiraz Khan graduated from the University of Birmingham Dental School in 2013. Having successfully completed foundation training and winning several prizes, he is currently placed in practice in Clapham, London.

He is a highly skilled aesthetic and restorative dental surgeon. Articulate, communicative and approachable, he has established himself as a recognised provider of high quality aesthetic dental care to patients.

He also provides solutions for full mouth wear (tooth surface loss) and rehabilitation cases as well as dental implants.

Shiraz is also a sought-after lecturer in his own right and is known amongst his peers for his successful results and teaching in composite resin restorations, ICON infiltration and clinical dental photography and presentation.

Dr Koray Feran FCGDent qualified in 1989 from Guy’s Dental Hospital, winning the Final Year Prize for overall excellence and the S.J. Kaye Prize in Oral Medicine and Pathology. He remained at Guy’s for two separate House Surgeon appointments in Prosthetic Dentistry and Oral and Maxillofacial surgery until 1991 when he went into general practice in North London.

Between 1991 and 1993 he completed the Master of Science degree in Periodontology from Guy’s Hospital and at the end of 1993 passed examinations to obtain a Restorative Dentistry Fellowship in Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

He has since been in practice dedicated to quality dental care, having a special interest in multi-disciplinary cases that require detailed planning and co-ordination of several branches of dentistry. Between 1996 and 1999 he provided surgical services in periodontics and implant dentistry to three prestigious practices in the Knightsbridge and South Kensington areas and established his own practice in the West End of London from 1998.

In 2005 he founded The London Centre for Implant and Aesthetic Dentistry (LCIAD Ltd.) in Wimpole Street at the heart of London’s dental and medical community. He expanded LCIAD in October 2010 into new larger premises to establish a strong multi-disciplinary clinical team with in-depth experience in the management and care of patients with complex dental problems.

Koray is recognised amongst his peers as a trusted and highly competent clinician for care of patients with multidisciplinary treatment needs and accepts referrals from over 70 colleagues for patients. He is known for his successful multidisciplinary approach to dealing with complex cases requiring dedicated surgical and restorative branches of dentistry especially on cases with failed previous dental work.

Koray has undergone and continues to undergo extensive postgraduate education in several countries with world leaders in many fields of dentistry and dental technology as well as being a sought-after lecturer in his own right on topics including consent, financial and business aspects of the provision of quality dental healthcare in private practice including fee setting, consultation and treatment planning, occlusion, dental photography, surgical and restorative implant dentistry including guided surgery, all aspects of restorative dentistry, bone and tissue augmentation and sinus grafting.

He has gained accolades from many dental organisations around the world, and amongst other achievements, is a Fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI), the Pierre Fauchard Academy and the College of General Dentistry.