DENTAL IMPLANTS & ORAL SURGERY TEAM
Our dental implants team have exceptional attention to detail. We can really make your smile come to life.
OUR TEAM | DENTAL IMPLANTS
WHY CHOOSE US
There is no Specialist list for dental implants however our dental implant team can demonstrate an advanced level of skill and experience in all aspects of dental implantology, which we believe sets us apart. We have received implant referrals from discerning dentists and patients across Hampshire (and beyond) for over 20 years.
The VIDA implant team understands that an implant is a significant investment and that you want to get it right, first time. We also understand the difference between placing an implant, and placing it in the way in which will give you the most natural looking result.
Our particular skill lies not just in in placing high quality dental implants, but in creating dental implants that resemble natural teeth as closely as possible.
To achieve this, the gum and bone around the original tooth must be carefully and delicately preserved. We are particularly skilled in preserving, or even recreating, the natural architecture around implants.
For this reason, wherever possible we prefer to meet you before the tooth is removed so we can control the landscape around the proposed implant site at every stage of your treatment. If the tooth has already been lost some time ago, then VIDA may still be able to recreate some of the original architecture. Please get in touch with the team or contact us for an appointment with the implant team. We are passionate about creating beautiful implant solutions and would be delighted to share our knowledge and experience of dental implants with you.
DR JOHN MCINERNEY BDS(Birm) Dip Imp Dent RCS (Eng) GDC No. 50438
VIDA Implant Surgeon
John graduated from Birmingham University in 1976. He is a dentist with Special Interests in Implant Dentistry and Advanced Restorative Procedures. He has been placing and restoring implants since 1992.
John has attended extensive Higher Education across the UK, Europe and North America from the world leaders in Implant Dentistry. He has also been awarded the highly-regarded Diploma in Implant Dentistry from the Royal College of Surgeons London in 2007– one of few to have gained this qualification. He also has the advanced implant certificate from the college.
He works closely with the Osstem implant system – however he has extensive experience with many other systems – ensuring he provides care scientifically proven to be predictable for his patients.
He has been a tutor and teacher in Implantology for many years, including six years as a tutor on the Royal College of Surgeons Implant Diploma course. He still mentors many of his colleagues through demanding clinical cases.
John accepts referrals from colleagues for all levels of complicated implant treatments at Vida Dentistry in Fareham.
To ensure his standards are of the highest possible, he has regularly submitted his work to scrutiny by his peers.
John is well known in the Fareham area having set up the Practice in 1981 before it became Vida in 2015.
His clinical dentistry at Vida is now limited to work associated with dental implants. Referring dentists work closely with John and patients are always referred back after implant treatment is finished for continuing care.
DR CLARE BRITTON BDS (Lond) | GDC No. 79867
VIDA Dentist and Implantologist
Specialist Interests: Dental Implants
The VIDA Implant Team share a commitment to life changing dentistry, made possible by advances in dental implant science.
Currently Clare is preparing for examination at the Royal College of Surgeons of England for a Diploma in Implant Dentistry and Advanced Certificate in Implants, following in the footsteps of Dr McInerney who founded the practice as an implant referral centre over 25 years ago.
Clare’s passion is natural looking dentistry and she strives to make dental implants look like natural teeth. Clare is also an advocate of socket preservation, a technique that helps patients maintain bone and shape in areas where they are having tooth extractions. This technique helps provide the ideal platform for future natural appearance around dental implants.
Contact us by email or telephone for a free, no obligation consultation with Clare to discuss how VIDA dentistry can help you improve your dental health and confidence.
DR HELEN McNEISH BDS, MFDS, MSc GDC No. 74566
VIDA Oral Surgeon
Associate Specialist in Oral Surgery at East Grinstead Hospital
Helen is our resident Oral Surgeon and undertakes the most complex surgical procedures at VIDA as well as more routine extractions. Additionally, Helen gained a Masters in Implant Dentistry from the University of London in 2007 and is well placed to understand the importance of preserving delicate bone and tissues around your teeth during a dental extraction. This particular skill is in great demand at VIDA where many of our extraction patients are hoping to proceed with implants at a later time, and will require adequate and healthy tissues around the socket to do so. Helen has a young family of two boys with her husband Jon, who works as an A&E Consultant at Worthing Hospital. In her spare time Helen enjoys tennis and training her new puppy, Bodicea.
Current practice
Helen is Associate Specialist in Oral Surgery at East Grinstead Hospital where runs Consultant clinics, treating adults and children removing teeth and performing sedation and complex surgery of the mouth and teeth.
Recently accredited as Clinical Teacher at the Royal College of Physicians, Helen is also Educational Supervisor for Dental Nurse Sedation and is responsible for teaching and mentoring at various sedation centres throughout the South.
Experience
Children extractions
Adult extractions
Wisdom tooth extractions
All surgical extractions
Grafting and Guided bone regeneration
Apicectomies
Surgical dermatology
Research and publications
Helen’s Masters thesis was titled ‘Patient Experience of Dental Implants’ 2007
Educational Supervisor for Dental Nurse Sedation.
Accredited Clinical Teacher at the Royal College of Physicians
Accredited by the Society for Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry Sedation (SAAD)
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