Mr Richard Snoad

Richard qualified as a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from Dundee University in 1980. He gained his Membership in General Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1992 and his MSc (with Distinction) in Periodontology from the Eastman Dental Institute (University of London) in 1996. In that year he became the first Director of the tri-Service Defence Dental Agency School of Dental Hygiene, where he combined teaching with an extensive periodontal referral service. He was registered as a Specialist in Periodontics by the General Dental Council in 1998 and was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2003. He is registered as a medico-legal Expert in Periodontology. Richard has lectured and published academic research internationally and is a past Member of Council of the British Society of Periodontology and examining boards of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the General Dental Council. He has been in full-time clinical practice as a periodontist since 1996, and in addition to his academic research into Periodontal Risk-Assessment, he has carried out programmes of post-graduate training for dental hygienists, therapists, and dentists in periodontics and treatment planning over two decades.