Bill Schaeffer

Bill is exceptionally qualified for his role as one of the implant surgeons at The Implant Centre. Having trained in the UK, Bill is both a dentist and a medical doctor. He is also a qualified surgeon and a registered Specialist Oral Surgeon. As if this was not enough, he also has a fellowship and a membership from the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

His extensive background in Oral Surgery provided him with the perfect starting point for learning the finer points of implant surgery when he placed his first implant in 1996, since then, he has become one of the most experienced implantologists in the UK and pioneered techniques now used by implantologists around the world.

Bill says, “Using techniques adapted from other branches of surgery, it’s been possible to minimise the amount of surgery that our patients need to go through for their implant treatments and that’s great for our patients”.

Bill’s extensive experience has allowed him to achieve an impressive success rate of over 99% for implants. As he admits, “I am obsessive about auditing the implants that I place. Without this you simply cannot tell with certainty what works and what doesn’t and it is the only way to continue to improve”.

Bill recently served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Dental Implantology. The ADI is the largest implant organisation in the UK and is dedicated to improving the standards of implant dentistry in the UK. To further this aim, Bill became the Director of Education for the ADI in 2009 and, in this role, he has developed and improved how dentists new to implants can get the training they need to become safe and competent clinicians. A necessary part of this was for Bill to train a Faculty of experienced implantologists to help teach the next generation of implant dentists – “Training the Trainers”. As a result, it is not surprising that Bill is an experienced lecturer and is regularly invited to speak internationally on the latest aspects of dental implants.

In his spare time, Bill likes to skydive, ski, snowboard and mountain bike, and he is now learning how to paraglide.