Lecturer Details: Basic Periodontal Surgery 2017

Lecturer nameSarovi Drone
Lecturer profileSarovi qualified from United Medical and Dental Schools in 2002. In 2006, she worked in England’s largest Maxillofacial and Dental Surgery unit. During this time, she was awarded membership to the Faculty of Dental Surgery and won the prestigious Junior Papers Award, her work being published in the British Dental Journal.
She completed her MSc in Restorative Dentistry programme at the Eastman Dental Institute in 2013, for which she gained a distinction. She has since been invited to lecture at the Eastman on the Restorative Diploma.
Currently, she splits her working week between dental practice, lecturing and looking after a newborn! She enjoys the challenge of both complex periodontal and restorative cases whilst being minimally invasive.
Lecturer nameMr Phil Ower BDS MSC MGDSRCS
Lecturer profilePhil Ower qualified from King's London in 1978. He joined the RAF after qualifying and was a general dental practitioner until taking an MSc in Periodontology in 1992, after which he was RAF Adviser in Periodontology and ran the RAF School of Dental Hygiene. After leaving the RAF in 1996 he lectured at the Eastman Dental Institute and worked in several specialist practices. For 10 years he worked alongside the renowned Bernie Kieser at the Periodontal Practice in London and now practices exclusively at the Briars Dental Centre in Newbury. He has been an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MGDS) and has served two terms on the Council of the British Society of Periodontology (BSP). He is serving a third term on the BSP Council prior to his Presidency of the BSP in 2015-16. In 2014 he was elected to the BSP Faculty. Phil has had papers published in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology, Dental Update, Dental Practice and Independent Dentistry and has served on the editorial boards of Primary Dental Care, Dental Health and the Primary Dental Journal. He is a Module editor on the eDen project for e-Learning for Healthcare and is currently editing a new undergraduate textbook for the publisher Elsevier. He lectures throughout the UK and internationally, and spoke at Europerio 7 in Vienna in 2012. He is also responsible for the perio component of the FGDP(UK) Diploma in Restorative Dentistry in both London and Manchester.