10th March 2010

LYME REGIS: Dentist is first European expert in his field

A LYME Regis based dentist has become the first person in Britain to become an acknowledged Europe-wide expert in his field.

Practioner Dr Philip Bennett, who has has performed over 4,000 dental implants in his carrer, sat an exam to gain the accolade of European Dental Association Expert in Implantology.

The Lyme Bay Dentistry doctor has since been asked to join the European Board of Examiners who will be overseeing the examination in the UK during 2010.

The new examination was to set a unified standard of excellence across the Euro-zone for practitioners in dental implant treatment.

Dr Bennett said: “I hadn’t done an exam for the best pert of 30 years, so it was quite stressful, but something that I thought was neccersary, and something nobody in the UK had attempted before.

“I thought if I showed willing and go to do the exam then it’s a boost for other people in the UK to get on board.

“The first problem in the UK is that there are no examining boards; we are in a right old mess. Practitioners might have a masters degree or been to the Royal College of Surgeons but there’s nowhere to do the one I got through.

“One thing I’ve always been keen on is establishing a European level in this country. Trying to acheive a standard in implant dentistry; it’s much needed and required and this is the first step.”

Dr Bennett sat the examination in Munich in October 2009 and was required to present documented evidence of a minimum 150 dental implant cases in the last five years.

He was then quizzed for two hours on his 10 submitted cases by a board of senior examiners.

Dr Bennett has been a dentistary prctioner since qualifying in 1978. he has been teaching the pioneering dental implants work in Lyme Regis for five years and has been President of the Association of Dental Implantology (UK).

PICTURE: Lyme Regis based dentist Dr Philip Bennett (centre) became an ackowledged expert in his field with examiners Professor Joachim E. Zöller, vice president of BDIZ EDI (left) and Christian Berger, President of BDIZ EDI

LYME REGIS: Dentist is first European expert in his field

LYME REGIS: Dentist is first European expert in his field

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