Our Recent Contributors
Piero Cascone
Surgeon - Specialist in Maxillofacial Surgery
Professor Piero Cascone is a doctor-surgeon and Associate Professor of Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Rome Sapienza. With over 40 years of clinical experience, from 1981 to today, he has performed more than 5000 surgical procedures. He is currently the director of the Complex Operative Unit (UOC) of Maxillofacial Surgery of the Policlinico Umberto I Hospital in Rome. He is the director of the Maxillofacial Surgery Research for the Dermopathic Institute of the Immaculate Conception (IDI), Scientific Hospitalization and Treatment Institute. He is the Italian Councilor of IAOMS (International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons), founding member and past president of ESTMJS (European Society of Temporomandibular Joint Surgeons), founding member and past president of SIDA (Italian Society of Temporomandibular Dysfunctions and Algias) and international partner of American Society of Temporomandibular Joint Surgeons (ASTMJS). His clinical and research activity embraces all aspects of Maxillofacial Surgery with particular reference to the most complex problems of both temporomandibular joint pathologies and congenital craniomaxillofacial malformations or the outcome of traumas.
Kevin Lotzof
Consultant Radiologist, MBBCh FRCR
Dr Lotzof is a consultant interventional radiologist. He performs the whole range of interventional procedures from simple ultrasound guide injections and biopsies through the placement of venous access lines and filters to complex angioplasty, evar and embolisation. He has a special interest in the treatment of venous and arteriovenous malformations. His other main interest is MRI of the TMJ.
He also reports on all CT examinations except cardiac and all MRI examinations except cardiac and breast. Clinical interest in interventional radiology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), in particular, temporomandibular joint,
head and neck and musculoskeletal.
Peter J Herbert
FRCP General Practitioner (GP)
Member of the British Medical Acupuncture Society
A highly regarded and experienced GP in North London. Early in his career he understood the many limitations in the medical treatment of chronic pain. He has sought out and investigated alternative and more effective solutions ever since. Today he offers private GP consultations and low light laser therapy for the treatment of inflammatory conditions.
Medical qualifications and experience after training at Middlesex Hospital, he worked in intensive care, cardiology and psychiatry before becoming a principal in a training general practice in North West London in 1983. He was involved in teaching from the outset and was honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free and University College London and GP Tutor to Camden and Islington and South Barnet. He was awarded FRCP because of his educationalist role. Until 2017, he taught fourth year clinical medicine to medical students at UCL and for ten years was an appraiser for NHS England.
Gratitude and Appreciation
Honoring Our Former Lecturer's Profound Impact on Education for GDPs with Cephtactics Dental
Guy Jacobs
THERAPIST, ABH & ABNLP APPROVED
Having worked within psychology since 1997 on a range of different challenges including health, behaviour, performance and digital, Guy focused upon the key aspect of life, that has the greatest impact upon personal happiness in the modern world today. That aspect is anxiety, and whilst no individual enjoys experiencing it, the energy it creates either supports or denies the achievement of the goals and dreams of an individual. The majority of his work is with individuals who want to learn how to channel personal energy positively, often from a position that is already negatively impacting their physical body such as fertility, bruxism and muscle tension. Whilst the symptoms that patients suffer may be similar, their life history is what often holds the key to their long term happiness, and is rarely the same. Guy provides both therapeutic sessions and training courses for individuals and teams of medical personnel, to enable them to deal with anxiety, whether it be their own, their patients or colleagues.
Jasneet (Jaz) Singh Gulati
Dental Surgeon, BDS (Hons) MFDS RCPS (Glas) PgCert (DentEd) PgDip (Orth)
Jaz qualified from The University of Sheffield in 2013 achieving a Distinction in his Finals exam as well as prizes in Endodontics and Oral Medicine. Since then he has undertaken Dental Core Trainee posts in Restorative Dentistry and Oral Surgery, as well as working abroad in Singapore. He now works in Private practices in Reading and Richmond. Jaz is a self-confessed Dental geek and has taken courses in the UK and abroad to expand his knowledge in the fields of Restorative Dentistry, Occlusion and Orthodontics.
Jaz is the enthusiastic host of Protrusive Dental Podcast which is in the top 2% of most-listened-to Podcasts in the world with listeners from over 120 countries. He also teaches online masterclasses in Resin Bonded Bridges and Occlusal Appliances (SplintCourse.com).
Jaz is a general and cosmetic Dentist with an interest in teeth straightening and helping patients manage their bruxism.
Denise Winn
Denise Winn has been a psychotherapist since 2000, using the human givens approach to therapy. The term human givens refers to the givens of human nature – our essential emotional needs and the innate resources we have to help us fulfil them. It is when needs are not well met in balance or resources are inadvertently being misused that problems with mental health occur.
Human givens is a brief, solution-focused approach, with the emphasis on opening clients up to different, more empowering perspectives to help make their lives work for them again as quickly as possible. This way of looking at behaviour and mental health is not only being successfully applied to counselling distressed people but is increasingly influencing fields as diverse as physical health, parenting, education, social care, business, law, diplomacy – and dentistry. Denise was involved right from when the human givens approach was first developed in the 1990s.
Alongside seeing clients, she is editor of the journal Human Givens and, till recently, taught for Human Givens College. She is the author of numerous books on psychology and mental health for the layperson, was editor of the UK edition of Psychology Today, and wrote about psychology and mental health for many national newspapers and magazines for over 25 years. She currently writes a blog for Psychology Today, called Helping Humanity Thrive.
Santosh Patil
BDS, 2001, PG Diploma Clinical Dental Sciences (QMUL), Certificate in Western Medical Acupuncture, BMAS, PG Diploma Clinical Dental Hypnosis HUUK, UCLH, ORE GDC UK, PG Diploma Dental Implants, UIT, Leicester, Certificate in Dental Sleep Medicine
Dr Santosh Patil has a long and successful record in patient dental care with a wide range of treatment offers across all aspects of general dentistry. His keen interest in teeth straightening & structured training has led him to offer braces (formerly known as ‘train-tracks’) discreet lingual (hidden) braces, ceramic labial braces, clear (plastic) aligners & the revolutionary Inman aligner. He has numerous successful cases on record for a minimally invasive smile makeover outcomes (align, bleach, bond) all delivered to his patient’s satisfaction, as evidenced by the client testimonials. His training & special interest extends into integrated medicine and served as Clinical Acupuncturist, 2008-2012 at the prestigious ‘The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine’ formerly known as ‘The Royal London Homeopathy Hospital’ Has been offering services in clinical dental hypnosis & facial acupuncture to treat some of the dental ailments non pharmacologically for over a decade now. He has a keen interest in art & photography and his work is a regular feature on the cover pages of celebrated national & international dental journals & magazines. He also lectures on the topic of clinical photography nationally & internationally.