Sean Hamilton

I am a Consultant Orthodontist at University Hospitals Plymouth and Associate Professor and Consultant Orthodontist at Peninsula Dental School with subspecialty interests in orthognathic surgery, the ortho-restorative interface and lingual orthodontics.

I am a highly committed orthodontist with experience in adult patients both alone and as part of a multidisciplinary specialist team.

I joined the Royal Navy whilst a dental undergraduate at the University of Manchester in 2000. Upon graduating in 2001, I undertook vocational training at HMS Drake and JMDU Gibraltar. Subsequently I had a wide variety of postings as a Dental Officer, which included large shore establishments, singleton billets with the Royal Marines, and an aircraft carrier. This included a deployment on OP HERRICK V as SDS Joint Operations Afghanistan in 2006, where I relished the challenges of providing high quality dentistry in the operational environment.

Whilst a General Duties Dental Officer I obtained further postgraduate qualifications, including his Membership of the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners (MFGDP(UK)), the Certificate in Dental Health Services Leadership and Management, as well as a restorative dentistry diploma and subsequent MSc at Leeds University. Whilst serving onboard HMS ARK ROYAL I became a Fellow of the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners, the only Dental Officer to date who has gained this accreditation on-board an operational aircraft carrier.

In 2009 I undertook the Initial Command and Staff Course (Maritime) with a subsequent Staff Officer appointment at Navy Command Headquarters, involving equipment procurement, through life capability management, preparing and delivering deployable medical capabilities and developing maritime doctrine (as well as co-ordinating a couple of Royal visits).

Appointed as the Defence orthodontic candidate in 2011 following a competitive application process, I undertook Specialist training in Orthodontics at Cardiff Dental Hospital, which I completed in 2014. As the Royal Navy’s sole Specialist Orthodontist, I provided an orthodontic service for the Defence Dental Services to entitled personnel and their families in the UK, Gibraltar and in Germany. During this time, I also undertook a Post Graduate Certificate in Medical Education and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In In 2016 I was promoted to Surgeon Commander (Dental) and was the Senior Dental Officer at HMS Sultan, a large multi-chair clinic in a large training establishment, in addition to my orthodontic service provision. I subsequently left a secure military career in 2017 in order to take up Consultant training at UHP.

Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Member of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Fellow of the College of General Dentistry.

Member of the British Orthodontic Society.

Member of the British Dental Association.

Orthodontic Area Clinical Lead (South) for Bupa Dental Care

 I have interest in theory and practical teaching of:

• Orthodontics
• Orthognathic Surgery
• Use of temporary anchorage devices
• Adult orthodontics and the orthodontic restorative interface
• Orthodontic nursing
• Orthodontic therapy
• Professionalism and GDC Standards