Dr Stewart Harding

Dr Stewart Harding graduated from Newcastle Dental School in 1982 and is currently a Professor at Dentistry University of Bolton, Queens Institute for Dental Sciences. Since qualifying he has held various full and part time hospital appointments and introduced osseointegrated implants into his restorative and orthodontic practice in 1985 since which he has successfully placed and restored thousands of implants in the UK and internationally. He pioneered post graduate education for general practitioners wishing to attain recognised training in implant dentistry and was instrumental in designing and instigating several postgraduate degree programmers in the field. In 2019 the University of Bolton validated 10 MSc programmes in various fields of dentistry which can be attended both full and part time. These programmes were written and devised by Stewart Harding. He has also helped to set up similar postgraduate programmes in Singapore, Dubai, Sudan and Ghana with plans to expand into India and Pakistan. He has been an Expert witness since 2010 and manages over 100 cases a year for various legal firms and medical defence organisations and has advised the GDC on several cases.