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SESSION 6: “Inter-Professional Approaches to Comprehensive Dental Care”
Topic : “Art and Science – The Planning and Design of Full Arch Implant Supported Restorations”
PROF. NEIL MEREDITH
UNITED KINGDOM
- Professor Meredith qualified at Guy’s Hospital in 1982 and completed an MSc in Conservative Dentistry at the Eastman Dental Institute in London in1988 and his first PhD at Imperial College in 1992. In 1993, the General Dental Council recognized him as a specialist in both Prosthodontics and Restorative dentistry.
- His research interests have focused on biomaterials and biomechanics. In 1992 he invented the use of Resonance Frequency Analysis to measure dental implant stability, a technique now becoming the international benchmark known as Osstell.
- He was awarded his second PhD from the University of Gothenburg for his work in 1996. Neil became Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Professor at the University of Leeds in 1997.
- Following his entrepreneurial spirit he invented an implant system, raised venture capital funding, and founded a medical device company, Neoss, of which he was CEO from 2000-2011.
- Prof. Meredith joined the University of Queensland as Professor of Dental Implantology and Prosthodontics in 2012 and 2015 as Dean of Dentistry at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. In 2019 Neil left his university ties to work in specialist practice, deliver lectures internationally, and engage in new technology and product developments.
- Today, Prof. Neil Meredith is the Dean, of the Post Graduate Institute of Dental Surgery, (PGIDS).