Meet the Team

Prof. Cemal Ucer, BDS, MSc, PhD, MFDS RCS (Eng), FCGDent, FDTFEd., ITI Fellow, Specialist Oral Surgeon

Professor of Dental Implantology, University of Salford

Fellow of the British Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons

Cemal Ucer first established a private hospital based implant referral centre in 1995. He was awarded an MSc in Implantology at Manchester Dental Hospital following his research into guided bone regeneration and osteopromotion. He later gained a PhD for his clinical and laboratory studies into the factors affecting the success of implant treatment in iliac grafts and the investigation of the effect of skeletal bone density on implant survival. He has personally trained and mentored more than 1,000 dentists in implant dentistry as one of the main providers of implant education in the UK.

Cemal’s current clinical research interests include investigation of  the role of major bone grafting on success of dental implants, management of nerve damage, 3D surgical navigation, reconstructive bone surgery, GBR and sinus grafting techniques, as well as rehabilitation of severely atrophic maxilla with zygomatic and 3D printed customised implants. Academically, he has gained European recognition for his work on the development of a new framework for teaching and assessment of clinical competence in implantology. He is a co-author of the consensus paper produced by the Association for Dental Education in Europe (ADEE) following the first pan-European collaboration between EU universities to establish common training and assessment standards in dental implantology. He is an invited member of the working group convened by the FGDP (UK) and the General Dental Council (GDC) to update the Training Standards in Implant Dentistry (TSID) guidelines in 2012 and 2016.

Cemal is a Fellow of the Dental Trainers Faculty of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), a Fellow of the International Team for Implantology (ITI), a Fellow of College of General Dentistry and a member of Megagen’s MINTEC UK & Ireland Board for education and clinical research. ) and the chair of the editorial advisory board of Implant Dentistry Today. Cemal is Professor and Clinical Lead of the MSc programme in Dental Implantology  at University of Salford and a member of the Faculty of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s Diploma in Implant Dentistry. He is a past president (2011-2013) and honorary life member of The Association of Dental Implantology (ADI).

Professor Ucer’s private Centre for Oral-Maxilla-Facial and Dental Implant Reconstruction has been accredited as an International ZAGA Centre which provides treatment for the rehabilitation of severely atrophic jaws using the standardised anatomically driven ZAGA Zygomatic Implant technique without major bone grafting.

Find out more about Prof. Ucer’s Manchester Dental Implant Clinic by clicking HERE.

Dr Ulpee Darbar, BDS, MSc, FDS RCSEd, is a Consultant in Restorative Dentistry and is also on the specialist lists in Restorative Dentistry, Periodontology, Prosthodontics and Endodontics.

Ulpee is Divisional Clinical Director of the Eastman Dental Hospital and also the Lead for dental implants at the Eastman as well as being Clinical Tutor for the trainees and Programme Director for the Dental SHOs. She is widely recognised for her specialist interests in periodontology and implantology and lectures and teaches widely on these topics. She also holds a number of external positions for the Royal Colleges & Specialist Societies.

Dr Lloyd Searson BDS, MS (Univ. of Michigan), FDS.RCS(Eng), Consultant and Specialist in Restorative Dentistry, GDC Registration No: 54293

Lloyd graduated in 1980 from the Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff. Following graduation, he continued to work at the school in the departments of Oral Surgery and Conservative Dentistry before accepting a post in the department of Conservative Dentistry at the Eastman Dental Institute. In 1983 Lloyd won a prestigious, highly competitive Science and Engineering Research Scholarship which allowed him to enrol onto the Master of Science in Restorative Dentistry programme at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA.

After completing his MSc in 1985, Lloyd returned to work at The Eastman Dental Institute where he was a highly respected and longstanding Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Prosthodontics department for over twenty years. During this time, Lloyd took over one of the most illustrious restorative practices in London and The London Centre for Prosthodontics was born. Lloyd is the lead clinician and the senior partner.

In addition to his time spent at the practice, Lloyd lectures nationally and internationally in all aspects of prosthodontics and implant dentistry. He is renowned as one of the leading implant surgeons in the United Kingdom and he has co-authored two books on the subject. He continues to treat cases and teach within the hospital setting as a Consultant in Restorative Dentistry at Kings College Dental Hospital.

Dr David Madruga BDS FFGDP RCS (Eng), MJDF RCS (Eng), MFDS RCSEd DipImpDent RCS (Eng) (Adv Cert), DipClinPerio (Gothenburg), MSc Implant Dentistry (Leeds), PGCertDentEd (UoB), FHEA, FIADI
Implant Surgeon
Fellowship Adviser FGDP- Royal College of Surgeons (RCS)
Tutor Diploma Implant Dentistry FGDP (RCS)
Associate Clinical Professor University Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid)
President of International Academy of Dental Implantology Europe (IADI, Europe)
GDC No. 104892

Dr. David Madruga is a qualified dental surgeon from the University Complutense of Madrid. He has worked in several practices in the UK since 2006, taking care of both NHS, private and Denplan patients and has successfully helped to develop several Conscious Sedation/ Implant referral centres across the country.

The Oxford Society of Oral Implantology awarded him with a Postgraduate Certificate in Comprehensive Oral Implantology and Prosthetics in 2008. Furthermore, in 2009 he completed a second year in Advanced Implantology and Bone Graft Surgery organised by the above Society and the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Implantology of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lille II (France).

He was awarded the Diploma of Member of Joint of Dental Faculties of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MJDF RCS Eng) in 2009, from where he completed a Diploma and Advanced Certificate leading to an MSc in Implant Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons (London). This qualification is currently considered the gold standard in postgraduate training in Implant Dentistry in UK.

He has also carried out research work in the field of bone regeneration and plasma rich in growth factors (PRGF) at the University of Leeds, which served him to obtain a Masters Degree in Clinical Dentistry (Implant Dentistry).

In 2013, he completed an intensive 2-year postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Periodontology, organised by the Department of Biomaterials/Handicap Research of the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), under the supervision of worldwide known Professor Dr Thomas Albrektsson.

He was also awarded Member of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of Edinburgh (MFDSEd) in 2013.

During the past years he has also attended a variety of national and international courses in oral rehabilitation, implant and aesthetic dentistry (France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Mexico, USA).

He was appointed Fellowship Adviser of the Faculty of General Dental Practice (Royal College of Surgeons of England) and elected board member of the Fellowship Development group in 2014.

David combines his clinical work with his other passion, teaching and mentoring other dentists interested in furthering their knowledge in different fields of Dentistry. He currently works as Tutor of the prestigious Diploma in Implant Dentistry of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and as Associate Clinical Professor at the University Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid).

In 2015, David was awarded Fellowship of the prestigious Higher Education Academy in recognition of attainment against the 
UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education.

David has recently been appointed President of the International Academy of Implant Dentistry (IADI, USA) in Europe.

David has been nominated Associate Professor at the University Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid), where he is currently working towards completion of his Clincal Doctorate (PhD). He is also course Director of the Master of Science in Implant Dentistry, formally articulated between the Faculty of General Dental Practice (Royal College of Surgeons of England) and the University Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid).

He is also Co-Director of the full-time clinical program “Master in Advanced Implantology, Tissue Regeneration and implant-supported rehabilitation” at the University Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid).

He currently leads a highly qualified team in Conscious Sedation, Dental Implantology and Periodontics, taking both internal and external referrals. He carries out all forms of implant dentistry from basic dental Implantology to more complex cases requiring bone-grafting procedures.

He performs immediate placement/loading of implants and “same day teeth” full mouth rehabilitations, reducing surgery time and healing process and allowing his patients to leave the practice with fixed implant-supported restorations on the same day.