ABOUT Dr Jaya

After completing a successful Dental Foundation Training Year (DFT), I applied for a DCT position through national recruitment and obtained a Restorative position at Barts and the London Dental Hospital. The role involved an intensive introduction to Restorative dentistry and served as the perfect training ground to refine the motor skills that I believe are the basis of any speciality training. I subsequently moved to Bristol for a DCT2 post in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery where I worked in cleft clinics, assisted in theatres for cleft repairs, osteotomies, and exposure and bonding of canines. I also worked an on-call rota managing facial trauma and emergencies.

These experiences gave me the skillset to apply and be successful in Specialty Training in Orthodontics. This 3 year training programme honed in my Orthodontic clinical skills providing evidence-based orthodontic treatment for a range of complex malocclusions in a range of patients. I learned diagnostic and problem solving skills as well as effective communication and management with patients and parents. My Specialist exams were delayed due to Covid which meant I sat the most important exams 5 weeks after the most important life event when my baby boy was born. He then welcomed his baby brother in 2021. In 2019, together with my husband, we bought a failing six-surgery mixed dental practice and set out to turn it around. Following the success of which, we went on to purchase an additional nine-chair practice in 2021.