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Louis Mackenzie (GDC registration - 65916 )

I have worked at the Selly Park Dental Centre for nearly 20 years, since leaving Birmingham Dental School in 1990. For the last 12 years, I have been ably assisted by my nurse Rachael.

Over the last 7 years, I have become increasingly involved in dental education.

As well as helping me in my private practice, I find teaching extremely rewarding and this summer I was lucky enough to be awarded The 2009 University of Birmingham School of dentistry award for teaching excellence.

My teaching involves:

Being a clinical lecturer at the University of Birmingham dental school.
Teaching postgraduate dentists from Britain and around the world, via a series of practical courses, which I designed myself.
Acting as an examiner in some of the University dental school prize examinations
A five year commission to write and illustrate a series of original study guides for Birmingham dental school's national award winning e-learning course.
Leading the International peer review project, which links Birmingham with dental schools in USA, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong and Australia.
Publishing papers in the UK's most popular dental journal on my favorite subject: the teaching and practice of composite (tooth coloured) fillings.
Visits to the world aesthetic congress in London and research trips to the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Finland and Canada.

As a by-product of my teaching I have been able to forge strong links with a number of the world's biggest dental research companies giving me access to the most up to date materials and equipment, which I use every day at Selly Park.

My wife, Gilly, continues to run successful private practices in Solihull and Harborne (where her main interests are cosmetic and implant dentistry) and while our son is still a junior; our daughter has recently started secondary school.

David and I continue to play cricket for the Sportsman Cricket Club and for the last two seasons I have captained the Dental School Staff IX.