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Professor Cemal Ucer – Clinical Director BDS, MSc, PhD, FDTFEd (RCSEd), Specialist Oral Surgeon, ITI Fellow GDC No: 57048 Centre for Oral-Facial & Dental Implant Reconstructive Surgery, at ICE Postgraduate Dental Institute & Hospital , Manchester, UK

Cemal graduated from Manchester Dental School in 1982. After postgraduate training as an oral surgeon he established a private referral practice for implant dentistry in 1998. Over the past 20 years he has carried out thousands of implant procedures using different implant systems, including Astra, Bränemark, ITI/ Straumann®, Megagen, TRI and Neoss. With a commitment to long-term dental research and education, Cemal has lectured in implant dentistry since the 1990s, providing ongoing clinical support, training and mentoring to more than 2,000 dentists. His special clinical interests are guided bone regeneration, osteopromotion, reconstruction of severely atrophic jaws using major grafting techniques, zygomatic implants and 3D printed subperiosteal implants and autologous regenerative oral surgical techniques. He was awarded a PhD at Manchester University for his study investigating the factors affecting the survival of implants in iliac bone grafts and osteoporotic patients. His academic interests include developing frameworks for assessment of clinical competencies in implant dentistry as well as training and calibration of mentors and developing evidence-based clinical national & international guidelines in implant dentistry. Cemal is a founding member of the National Advisory Board for Human Factors in Dentistry (NABHF) which includes representation from all the UK stakeholders set up in 2018 to improve patient safety by helping to prevent mistakes and errors in dentistry. Cemal is a past president and an honorary life member of the Association of Dental Implantology (ADI), a fellow of the ITI, Clinical Director of the Manchester Postgraduate Dental Institute (MPGDI) at ICE and Professor & Clinical Lead of the MSc programme in Dental Implantology at Salford University. Cemal is a Fellow of RCSEd and a member of the Faculty of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Implant Dentistry.