Bill Sharpling

Bill Sharpling FCGDent is Associate Dean (CPD) and Director of the London Dental Education Centre (LonDEC) at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London, and is teacher and examiner for the faculty’s MSc in Aesthetic Dentistry and MClinDent in Fixed & Removable Prosthodontics programmes. He is also an Honorary Professor at RAK College of Dental Sciences in the United Arab Emirates, a Visiting Professor at the British University in Egypt, Chair of the Dental AI Association’s Division of Removable Prosthodontics and Chair of the CPD work-stream for DentALLiance, a dental education partnership between King’s College London, the University of North Carolina, the National University of Singapore and the University of Melbourne. Previously, he has been Head of Dental Technology at Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals, Chief Instructor in conservative dental technology at Guy’s Hospital Dental School and an external examiner for the BSc(Hons) Clinical Dental Technology programme at the University of Central Lancashire.

After qualifying in 1986, he spent the next 10 years working as a Dental Technician, gaining advanced qualifications in fixed and removable prosthodontics. He served for 16 years in the Royal Army Dental Corps, has worked in commercial dental laboratories and continues in practice as a Clinical Dental Technician running his own dental laboratory in Surrey. He holds an HND(Sc) in Dental Technology from South London College, a Diploma in Clinical Dental Technology from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies from the University of Portsmouth and an MBA with distinction from London South Bank University. In 2024, he also completed the MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Programme in Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.

He is a Fellow of the College of General Dentistry, the Faculty of Dental Trainers of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Academy of Restorative Dentistry, the International Team for Implantology and the British Association of Clinical Dental Technology. He also serves on the International Federation of Denturists’ education committee, and previously served on the Dental Care Professionals committee of the former Faculty of General Dental Practice UK and on the editorial board of the Quintessence Journal of Dental Technology. He has authored chapters in the textbooks Essentials of Aesthetic Dentistry: Principles of Practice (Elsevier) and Practical Procedures in Aesthetic Dentistry (Wiley).

In 2022 he was appointed the representative on the College Council for dental technicians and clinical dental technicians. In 2024 he was appointed Chair of the Faculty of Clinical Dental Technology & Dental Technology, and in 2026 he became Faculty Dean.

Updated 2026