Specialist Surgeons

Dr Benjamin Gupta
Dr Gupta qualified from the University of Liverpool, UK in 2001 with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery. He worked as a General Dental Practitioner around the North East of England until 2004, undertaking further training in orthodontics, oral surgery and dental sedation. He accepted a post as a Senior House Officer in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham.
Dr Gupta then accepted a job at Westmead Hospital, Sydney Australia. Subsequently he then completed a Bachelor of Medicine at the University of Newcastle in 2009. He undertook medical, emergency, critical care and surgical rotations within the Hunter junior medical officer network.
He successfully completed his surgical training in 2016 within the NSW and ACT network working in Sydney and Canberra hospitals. He then accepted a Fellowship position back at Queens Medical centre in Nottingham. He furthered his skills in Temporomandibular Joint Surgery and surgical correction of sleep apnoea and complex facial deformity including cleft and distraction osteogenesis.
Dr Gupta has presented both at national and international meetings, published in peer reviewed journals and a chapter in a book and is currently a reviewer for the British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery.
Dr Gupta undertakes a variety of oral & maxillofacial surgical procedures including:
- Removal of impacted (such as third molars (wisdom teeth) and fractured/ broken down teeth.
- “Exposure and bonding” of impacted teeth (usually canines) to assist with orthodontic tooth alignment.
- Diagnosis and management of bone pathology such as jaw cysts.
- Bone grafting for alveolar (gum bone) defects in patients with cleft lip and/or palate
- Jaw re-alignment surgery where your teeth or bite cannot be aligned with orthodontics alone, including distraction osteogenesis.
- Dental implant surgery (including the “all-on-4™” technique) to replace missing or decayed teeth and a variety of bone grafting techniques to facilitate this.
- Temporomandibular joint surgery including joint replacement surgery.
- Surgical correction of sleep apnoea.