Stephen Henderson BDS, LLM, FFGDP

Stephen Henderson is the Former Head of the Dental Division at MDDUS and is a Specialist in Oral Surgery who qualified in London in 1984. After five years in full-time hospital practice, he went into general dental practice in Oxford. He continued to work part-time in the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Department of the John Radcliffe Hospital until 2000 when he joined Dental Protection. He converted his practice to a largely private referral oral surgery practice when he became a full-time adviser at DP in 2007. He continued to work as a visiting specialist in the same practice and at a practice in Bedford until the pandemic commenced. He has undertaken Expert Witness training with Bond Solon.

In December 2017 he left DP and joined MDDUS. In his medico-legal career, Stephen’s expertise has been complex GDC cases as his medical law degree included a dissertation on Regulatory Law in the UK. He has experience with international regulators and the management of dental and maxillofacial claims in several different jurisdictions.