Bill Sharpling

Bill Sharpling is Clinical Dental Technician (CDT), Director of the London Dental Education Centre (LonDEC) & a Senior Clinical Teacher at Kings College London Dental Institute. He has responsibility for running LonDEC, the post qualification training establishment. Prior to this appointment he was Head of Dental Technology at Guy’s, Kings College and St Thomas’ Hospitals and is currently teacher and examiner for KCL Dental Institutes MSc Aesthetic Dentistry & MClinDent (Fixed & Removable Pros) programmes.

Bill qualified in 1986 and spent the next 10 years working as a dental technician in the U.K and abroad where he gained advanced qualifications in fixed and removable prosthodontics. Prior to his appointment as Head of Dental Technology hel worked in commercial dental laboratories, the Armed Forces and as the Chief Instructor in Conservative Dental Technology at Guy’s Hospital Dental School. In 1999 Bill completed a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) at one of London’s Business Schools where he graduated with a distinction.

Bill has lectured extensively within the UK and also lectured internationally on many dental technology topics and in 2009 was short-listed for the Smile Awards – Aesthetic Technician of the Year. He serves as the CDT representative on the FGDP DCP Committee, on the dental panel of GlaxoSmithKline and also sits on the All Party parliamentary Group for Dentistry.

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