Rachael Hinton

Rachael is a general dental practitioner who came to join the Gum Health perio-team as a dentist with experience in restorative and periodontal treatments in general practice. She completed her undergraduate degree with the University of Sheffield in 2011 before completing a postgraduate diploma with the University of Birmingham in all areas of general dentistry achieving a distinction in the periodontal modules and overall.

She has worked in private practice in Bristol developing her patient management and technical skills over time. She has a teaching role with the University of Bristol at the Dental School as a clinical lecturer in the Dept of Restorative Dentistry, teaching the clinical skills of dentistry and periodontics to undergraduate students. She finds the interplay of gum health with how the teeth meet together and function particularly interesting.

She will be undertaking further postgraduate training and research in periodontics to be at the cutting edge of the specialty. She has a friendly approach to care and is particularly reassuring to anxious patients, having done further training in anxiety management and conscious sedation. She gets a huge amount of satisfaction from taking a bespoke approach to care and seeing the dramatic improvements in health and confidence that patients achieve through periodontal treatment.