Dr Ben Atkins is the previous president of the Oral Well being Basis and common dental practitioner. Previous to his present position, Ben has been a long-standing Trustee for the charity.

Ben additionally owned a bunch of dental practices within the North West of England. 

His primary pressure in follow is schooling of his sufferers, that is demonstrated within the follow venture observation: ‘Our venture is for all our sufferers to grasp their mouths, preventative regime and remedy.’

As a clinician, Ben is a former tutor at Manchester Dental Clinic and a Dentist with Specialist Passion (DWSI) in restorative dentistry. His practices have a variety of separate NHS contracts that cater for the oral well being wishes of the hard-to-reach teams in addition to the overall inhabitants throughout the present NHS Dental Pilot. Ben encourages his workforce to support the oral well being of hard-to-reach sufferers in the United Kingdom and in another country. He has supplied a cell dental surgical operation in Tanzania and 3 of his staff have undertaken voluntary paintings in that surgical operation.

His experience clear of the surgical operation contains – press and Parliamentary consultant for the British Dental Affiliation; Former Healthcare Fee adviser on dental court cases; Co-optee of the Nationwide Institute of Scientific Excellence (NICE) Public Well being Advisory Committee; Member the Periodontal guidance crew for the Division of Well being (DoH), Chairman of Salford Native Dental Committee (LDC), Efficiency Listing Panel member for NHS England. Ambassador for Wrigley’s. Ben is a father of 2, husband and beekeeper.