Reliable. Professional. Friendly.
Me
I qualified as a Dentist in 1991 and a Periodontal Specialist in 2001. I was born in Birmingham in the West Midlands and am married with 3 children.
Qualifications
BDS. University of Wales 1991
DGDP. Royal College of Surgeons England 1996
M.Sc. Periodontology Guys Dental London 1999
FDS. Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh 2000
MClin Dent Periodontology GKT London 2001
MRD. Royal College of Surgeons England 2001 PGCAP. Kings Learning Institute, London 2012
Services
It works best if you register with a general dentist for routine care.
Gum disease can almost always be resolved with basic routine care.
If necessary, your dentist has the option to make a referral.
I also take referrals for complicated extractions, wisdom teeth and dental implants. I take referrals by phone, text, e-mail, letter formally or informally, whatever suits your dentist. In select cases, I provide the full range of restorative treatment as necessary, fillings, crowns, bridges, sometimes even braces.
Clients comments
Alex &
Linda Cheyne
Dr Ahmed has always been honest and kind and firm. We wish our previous dentist had been as stringent. We now live in Wiltshire but still travel to London to see him.
Personal Development & Lifelong Learning
In keeping with my values, in 2015, I raised some concerns about compromises to patient safety and poor standards of education at the University Teaching Hospital I worked as a part-time Specialist Teacher.
What resulted was a pretty nasty "Wizard of Oz" style adventure which ended with me publishing a book - an irreverent one - majoring on institutionalised corruption and being bullied for having done the right thing.
During The Philosophy Fridge experience I developed a new perspective on anxiety as an asset. The perspective is based on nature having placed the instrument of anxiety in me to be conditioned into an asset. Thereafter, my professional insights and my perspective on anxiety has helped many of my professional colleagues deal with psychological distress.
Anxiety is a fact of nature
Mental Wellbeing is a fact of culture
The Philosophy Fridge experience became the most fulfilling experience of my life so far. After a further six years of research and reflection - I published The Anxiety Bureau
Psychological distress, especially anxiety affects the entire dental team. In dental students, the highest levels of distress are reported in the first 2 years of the 5 year course. Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders continue to rise in the patient population. The relationship between dental professionals and patients is bidirectional - with anxious patients making anxious dental professionals more anxious and vice-versa. Psychological distress affects more than two-thirds of dentists - depression, burnout and suicide remains higher in the dental profession than in other professions.
In my experience, all things considered, including the nature of professional mental health support and institutional groupthink complacency - burnout is best avoided by taking a personal responsibility for minimising psychological distress and, its causes.