Prof Neil Meredith PhD
Prof Neil Meredith has been placing and restoring dental implants for over thirty years. After completing an MSc in Fixed Prosthodontics at the Eastman in London in 1987 he was awarded a PhD at Imperial College in 1992. Neil then invented RFA, the diagnostic technique that became Osstell; the world standard for the measurement of implant stability. He undertook research with P-I Bränemark and Tomas Albrektsson in Gothenburg, Sweden and was awarded a second PhD for his work. He returned to the UK as Professor of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials at Leeds University. In 1998, Prof Neil Meredith invented a Dental Implant System and raised Venture Capital funding to secure its development. As CEO he carried the system and company through the next ten years where it showed exceptional growth and success. He then moved to Australia to return to Academia as Professor of Prosthodontics at UQ and latterly at James Cook University. He has lectured and published widely and internationally but his real passion is clinical patient treatment and teaching.
