Ken Nicholson BDS, MSc

Dr. Nicholson graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 1982 winning the Ash prize in restorative dentistry. After several years in general practice, he joined the Royal Army Dental Corps where he remained until 1988 when he returned to N. Ireland to establish a successful general practice.

After a decade in general practice, he opened a dedicated implant referral center, purpose-designed for the delivery of implant treatment and teaching. In 2010 he was employed by the Postgraduate Medical and Dental School at the University of Central Lancashire to restructure the MSc program in Implant Dentistry, prior to this he was instrumental in the development of the MSc course in Implant Dentistry at the University of Warwick where until April 2012 he was an Associate Fellow in the Institute of Clinical Education. He is the founder of the British Society of Oral Implantology, the co-founder of the European Journal of Oral Implantology, a Fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists, and sits on the editorial board of the European Journal of Implant Dentistry, The International Journal of Implant Dentistry and Related Research, Implant Dentistry Today and The Irish Dentist.