Specialist Dental Care and Referral
Our specialists have the expertise, precision and decades of training and experience to ensure that you receive the best clinical care that is possible, and enables us to provide the full range of options that are available to you.
Patients can be referred by their own dentist for non-routine, more difficult and complex treatments.
Patients can also self refer for a second opinion or for treatments that their own practice may not be able to provide.
We would like to assure you of our personal commitment to provide the very highest standards of modern dentistry.
Dr. Kerry Osborne-Smith BDS MSc FDS MRD RCS (Ed)
Registered Specialist in Prosthodontics (The Replacement of Missing Teeth)
Dr Kerry Osborne-Smith is the principal and resident specialist in Prosthodontics at Smiles Better. Kerry qualified from Guy’s Hospital (BDS) in 1988 and was awarded a commission in the Royal Army Dental Corps. After six years of general dental practice she returned to University to do a Master’s Degree in Fixed Prosthodontics (complex crowns and bridgework).
Kerry went on to The Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) and achieved a Membership (MRD) and a Fellowship (FDS) in Dental Surgery - the highest accolade in dentistry. She is registered on the General Dental Council’s list of specialists in Prosthodontics and has published numerous papers.
Kerry enjoys all aspects of restorative dentistry and has a keen interest in cosmetic dentistry, particularly rehabilitation of mutilated dentitions and smile enhancements.
After more than 10 years restoring implants Kerry has now completed a year's training course in placing implants herself, prior to restoring them. This involved a trip to Sweden and monthly training modules in Birmingham with Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, Dr Dominic Hassall. We are in the process of modifying the front "Specialist Surgery" for implant placements
John Bottomley BDS MSc FDS Morth RCS (Ed)
Registered specialist in Orthodontics and Surgical Dentistry.
John graduated in dentistry from the
John works as a Consultant in Orthodontics in King’s Lynn and
He is the Associate Director for Postgraduate Dental Education in the Eastern Region of England and the Regional College Tutor for Dentistry for the
John enjoys the care of patients of all ages – children and adults and giving them the best possible smile.
Zainab Malaki
BDS, MFDS RCS (Eng)
Periodontist
Zainab graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2002 with a BDS degree. After her training, Zainab worked in general dental practice for 4 years and also worked as a senior house officer in oral and maxillofacial surgery.
In 2007, Zainab started a post-graduate MClindent course in Periodontology at Kings College and continues to work in this field.
Zainab is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (England) and the British Society of Periodontology and regularly attends their conferences.
Zainab is mainly at Smiles Better Dental Care on Tuesdays and is supported by our hygienist, Jane Chisholm Alspach, and therapist Caroline Mason, treating gum disease and related problems.
Dr Hamed Karimi
BDS, MSc, MClinDent, FDS, MRD, RCS
Registered Specialist in Periodontics
Practice limited to Periodontics and Implant Dentistry.
Dr Karimi qualified from Edinburgh in 1995. After working in general dentistry he embarked on a four year specialist training course at Guy's Dental Hospital. He then also worked as a Specialist clinical tutor at Guy's Dental Hospital.
Dr Karimi is committed to life long learning, education, training and attends numerous courses and conferences in the UK and abroad.
We refer our patients to Dr Karimi's practice in Norwich for consultations/Implant surgery and they return to Smiles Better for the restorative work.
The link to Norfolk Dental Specialists is: http://www.norfolkdentalspecialists.co.uk/
Dr Gideon Bosch-Dental Sedationist (and General Medical Practitioner)
B. Sc. & Diploma in Sedation and Pain Control (University Stellenbosch)
M. B. Ch. B. & M. Fam. Med (University of Free State)
Dr Gideon Bosch qualified as a doctor in South Africa in 1981. He then worked as a General Practitioner for five years in a village on the east coast of South Africa. Gideon came to the UK in 1990 with his family to work and travel and decided to stay and settle here with his family. Gideons' practice is based in London where he works alongside twelve full-time and part-time partners. His sedation services are delivered in London and all over the southeast of England. Gideon has a wealth of experience in treating nervous patients.
For more information on sedation see the 'Intravenous' Sedation page.