Mr C Butterworth

President BSSPD

BDS(Hons) MPhil FDS RCS FDS (Rest Dent) RCS (Eng.)
Consultant in Oral Rehabilitation & Maxillofacial Prosthodontics
Liverpool Dental Hospital
Pembroke Place
Liverpool L3 5PS

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Chris is an NHS Hospital Consultant in in Oral Rehabilitation/Maxillofacial Prosthodontics based between the Regional Maxillofacial Unit at University Hospital Aintree and at the Liverpool University Dental Hospital. He is the lead clinician for dental implant treatment at the Dental Hospital and also leads the prosthetic rehabilitation service in Merseyside for the oral & facial rehabilitation of head and neck cancer patients.
He has extensive experience in the treatment planning, surgical placement and restoration of osseointegrated dental and zygomatic implants. He is interested in the use of computerized dental implant planning techniques for complex cases and in quality of life outcomes following dental implant treatment. He is actively involved in head & neck cancer research and is co-investigator on a national clinical randomised-controlled trial (HOPON - Hyperbaric oxygen for the prevention of Osteoradionecrosis) looking at the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen in the prevention of Osteoradionecrosis following surgery in the irradiated mandible.

He is President of the British Society of Prosthodontics 2011-12 (BSSPD). He sits on the Specialist Advisory Committee and the Faculty Specialist Advisory Panel for Restorative Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and examines at all levels of postgraduate examinations in Restorative Dentistry. He sits on the Specialist Advisory Board for the Diploma in Implant Dentistry examination at the Royal college of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He has contributed significantly to the scientific literature and lectures on a regular basis within the UK.