Mr Richard Brookshaw

Dr Richard Brookshaw BDS, MSc, DipImplant is a highly skilled dental implant surgeon with a distinguished academic background. He qualified with a BDS from the University of Dundee in 1996. In 1999 he gained his Masters degree in Oral Surgery from the University of Sheffield and further extended his clinical qualification in 2001 by completing an 18 month Implant Training Programme. In 2009, he attained the highest honours award in the one-year implant master program from University of California Los Angeles/Gide program. Richard was one of the first six in the UK to gain The Diploma in Implant Dentistry from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh at its first sitting. He has placed more than 5000 implants and is one of only a handful of implant surgeons nationwide who can carry out implant surgery in patients with extreme bone loss, using specialised zygomatic implants. Richard is respected nationally and internationally as a lecturer and mentor in Implant Dentistry, immediate same day implants and CT scanning and planning for implant surgery. He also lectures for Nobel Biocare nationally and internationally on a range of advanced implant techniques and is a regular lecturer and contributor to their World Tour. Richard practices all aspects of implant dentistry, including hard and soft tissue augmentation, sinus grafting and same day implants. He is proving to be a huge asset to Black Swan, where he treats existing patients of the practice and also accepts referrals from other dentists who value the skills he can provide for their patients.