Consultant Orthodontist Group (COG)

Arti Hindocha

Arti completed her specialty training at Eastman Dental Institute and Kettering General Hospital. She completed further training at the Royal London and William Harvey Hospitals; qualifying as a consultant in 2018

Sofia Ahmad

Sofia is Consultant Orthodontist at the Queen Victoria Hospital East Grinstead (QVH), and at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital London (GSTT).  Clinically Sofia works in both Orthognathic and Hypodontia MDT’s, leads the Hypodontia Service at the QVH and is a member of the GSTT Hypodontia Team for which she leads on running the team Hypodontia Courses. She is involved in postgraduate training both at the QVH and GSTT and has held Educational, Clinical and Research supervisor roles for Specialty Trainees and Post CCST Trainees and is a member of the Specialty Training Committee for Orthodontics (Health Education England). She has previously co-authored an Orthodontic text “Clinical Cases in Orthodontics”. Sofia has examined for the MFDS (RCS ENG), the MSc in Orthodontics (KCL) and for the Conjoint MOrth (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Kings College London). She has been appointed to examiner role for the MOrth for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2020. Sofia is the Trust Clinical Governance Lead at the QVH and as COG committee member represents the COG on the BOS Clinical Governance Committee. She has an interest in patient information, and has previously published around Orthognathic patient information needs, and is collaborating on the development of an information resource for Hypodontia patients.

Charlotte Dugdale

Mrs Charlotte Dugdale currently works as a Consultant Orthodontist at Royal Blackburn Hospital and as a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Manchester, where she teaches, trains and supervises UK and overseas orthodontic trainees. She also works in a private orthodontic practice in Cheshire.

Andrew Flett

Andrew is a Consultant Orthodontist at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham. He was appointed in 2016. He was a past treasurer of the TGG committee and has previously represented the BOS on the RCS clinical standards committee. He was also a Speciality Advisor for Orthodontics for the South Yorkshire and East Midlands region from 2018-2020.

Leonie Seager

Leonie is a Consultant Orthodontist at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in Shropshire. Leonie qualified as a Dentist from the University of Sheffield in 2007 and spent the first 7 years of her career working in the Royal Air Force as a Dental Officer before being selected for Orthodontic specialist training in 2014.

Helen Tippett

Farooq Ahmed

Farooq gained his Bachelor of Dental Surgery with Honours from the University of Manchester in 2009, and entered specialised training in orthodontics in 2012 at the University of Manchester Dental Hospital and the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

Darren Johnston

Spencer Nute

Spencer has worked as a consultant and clinical lead at Southend and Basildon Hospitals in Essex since 2000. He also works in two private specialist practices. He has been an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and is an examiner for Queen Mary University of London.