Dentist · Educator · Author
Thirty years of complex cases.What I learned is yours.
I'm a restorative and cosmetic dentist in Scotland, and I teach the system I use every week — smile analysis, treatment planning, and the conversations that get complex cases accepted. Everything I run is here.
With Dental Education Studios
The Complete Smile Analysis System
Six modules across three sections - diagnosis, design and communication, then occlusion and long-term outcomes. Take the first section on its own, or the whole system.
- Start with
- Section 1
- CE
- 4 hours
- Live
- Sat 26 Sept
- From
- $695
Faculty, fellowships and affiliations
Past President & Accredited Member 
Global Faculty 
Master & Key Opinion Leader 
Scottish affiliate 
Clinical Director 
Module Leader 
Module Leader 
Fellow 
Fellow 
Member Ways to learn
Start where you are
Three ways in. Come and look first if you'd rather, join a programme if you're ready, or work with me one to one when you want to go further.
Learn in a group
Structured programmes
Pathfinder Study Club Nine months in a room with twenty-odd dentists who stop pretending they have it figured out. Community, not lectures. FormatIn person · monthly evenings + 2 full daysWhereDoubleTree, North Queensferry, then the DakotaWhenSept 2026 – June 2027 · 6.30pm for 7pm, ends 9pmCPD28 hours in person, plus Seattle Study Club online £1,650£1,300 returning · or from £110/mo See the programme 
The Complete Smile Analysis System Six modules in three sections, online with Dental Education Studios. Start with Section 1 on its own, or take the whole system. FormatOnline · on-demand modules plus live sessionsWhereAnywhere · hosted by Dental Education StudiosWhenSection 1 live Sat 26 Sept · then 10 & 24 OctCE4 hours for Section 1 · 16 hours for the full course From $695Full course $2,695 · saves $390 See the course Come and have a look first
Low commitment · no membership neededIf you'd rather try before you commit — and most people would — there are three ways to see how I work without joining anything.
Work with me directly
One to one · deliberately limitedThe anchor
A day in practice
A full clinical day alongside me at Cherrybank. Real patients, real planning, and the reasoning said out loud — including the parts I'd normally keep in my head.
FormatIn person · one dentist at a timeWhereCherrybank Dental Spa, PerthWhenBy arrangement · very few each yearPrice on application
Enquire about a dayMentoring & coaching
One to one on your own cases, over time, until the framework is yours rather than mine.
FormatOnline or in personWhenOngoing · spaced so you can apply itPrice on application
Book a callPathfinder Study Club · Seventh year
It isn't a lecture series
Most study clubs are somewhere you go to be talked at. Pathfinder isn't. The philosophy is that we learn together and from each other, whatever our level of experience — so you bring the case that's bothering you, not the one that went well.
Nine sessions from September to June, two full hands-on days, and access to the Seattle Study Club's online library. Twenty-eight CPD hours in the room. We start with dinner.
“The Pathfinder Study Club is excellent at inspiring a whole-person approach to dentistry. I feel motivated, inspired and it is fun.”
Dr Olivia ArthurQueens Drive Dental Practice, Glasgow 
About
I still practise. That's rather the point.
I qualified from Edinburgh in 1992, opened Cherrybank in Perth three years later, and I'm still there. Along the way: a Master's with distinction from Manchester, a textbook, past president of the BACD, global faculty for Align, a DSD Master, clinical director at Pain Free Dental Group, and this year a Fellowship of the College of General Dentistry.
None of which matters much on its own. What matters is that I'm still in the chair on Monday, which means what I teach has to actually work.
The book · EDRA, 2022
Smile Analysis
A non-formulaic approach to smile design — the analysis, the treatment planning, and the conversation that gets the case accepted. Honed over thirty years in practice, with case studies to test yourself against before you try it on a patient.
Checklists, red flags and decision points. Written to be read more than once.
“Don't be fooled by the title. It is actually a comprehensive manual of how to properly analyse a patient and their dentition… I read it in one sitting, and made a lot of highlights and bookmarks. I have bought further copies for my team.”5-star Amazon reviewMrs V Holden-Martin
In practice
Cherrybank Dental Spa
I own and practise at Cherrybank Dental Spa in Perth. If you're a patient looking for treatment, that's where to go. If you're a dentist with a complex case and you'd like a second pair of eyes on the plan, I'm happy to look.
