DR DUAA TURANI | GDC No. 102551

Following her completion of Bachelor degree of science in dentistry in 2002, Duaa embarked on enhancing her skills in most aspects of dentistry to form a rounded-up knowledge and clinical experience. She undertook three years of training in Primary Dental Services, Community Dental Services and different secondary care sittings including Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine Duaa worked under Restorative Dentistry speciality since 2009.

Upon completion of 5 years’ full-time training programme as a Specialty Registrar (StR) in Restorative dentistry from Eastman Dental Hospital in London, she was awarded Fellowship in the Specialty of Restorative Dentistry from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh (FDS (Rest Dent) RCSEd). During her training at Eastman, she gained specialist level training in Prosthodontics, Endodontics and Periodontics to a high standard.

Academically, Duaa was awarded Membership in the Faculty of Dentistry from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (MFD RCSI) in 2004. She pursued two-year masters degree in Clinical Dentistry in Prosthodontics from Edinburgh University in 2015, MClinDent (prosthodontics), for which was awarded a distinction degree. She successfully obtained Membership in Prosthodontics from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh (MPros RCSEd) in 2016 and Fellowship in the Specialty of Restorative Dentistry from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh (FDS (Rest Dent) RCSEd) in 2022.

Duaa is currently working as a consultant in Restorative Dentistry at St Richard’s Hospital, where she leads restorative dentistry services and provides multidisciplinary care for patients, who have complex dental needs such as hypodontia, cleft lip and palate and head and neck cancer. She provides challenging oral rehabilitation to high priority groups to optimal standards. She currently teaches and trains dental core trainees (DCTs) and has a wide experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students and dentists. She published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals and has presented her research projects in national and international conferences.

Duaa has a conservative, modern and comprehensive approach, where she strides to provide high standards of care with utmost diligent care and empathy, which sets her at a distinguished level.

Her main interests are implant, cosmetic dentistry and periodontics as she enjoys transforming her patients’ smiles to confident ones.

When she is not working, Duaa enjoys reading, swimming and cycling besides spending quality time with her family.

DR AJ HAASBROEK

BDS(Wits) MSc Implantology (URJC) Enrolled, PG Cert Implantology (UP), PG Cert FAID (UK)

GDC no. 275542

VIDA Implant Surgeon

AJ is our implant surgeon and limits his practice to exclusively placing and restoring dental implants. He graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2010, completed his Dental Implantology training at the University of Pretoria in 2014 and is currently enrolled in the European Masters Degree in Dental Implantology at the University of Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid.

 

AJ lectures and is a mentor to a number of implant surgeons that are furthering their careers by advancing their surgical skills and require assistance with clinically complex cases.

 

Always going the extra mile and treating patients like family, has resulted in AJ priding himself in his colleagues referring their own family and friends for treatment. 

 

When AJ is not working, he enjoys exploring the beautiful countryside with his lovely wife and two young children.

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)