WORK EXPERIENCE AND POSITION HELD:

• Former Mentor of Nobel Biocare Implant Fellowship Programme
• Former Maxillofacial Registrar at these centers of excellence: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL – U.K. and TRINITY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL – Ireland
• Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon – Head of the Department Maxillofacial Surgery Chaithanya ENT Hospital, Cochin (a hospital exclusively dedicated to head and neck surgery)
• Formerly Senior Consultant Orthognathic Surgeon, Multidisciplinary Programme Dept. of Orthodontics, A.B Shetty Dental College, Mangalore Senior Specialist in treating facial deformities
• Chairman of Sun Foundation, a charitable trust for people with facial deformities
• Formerly Consultant Dental Surgeon, Hindustan Newsprint Ltd., Velloor and Indian Airlines – Kochi

Formerly Maxillofacial Registrar at Centers of Excellence:

• CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL – U.K.

ADDENBROOKE’S NHS TRUST is a tertiary referral center hospital for all specialties. This hospital is known as largest centre for liver transplant treatment in the whole Europe.

The maxillofacial department was the tertiary referral center for the whole of East Anglia. The department was manned with three consultants and one registrar(Dr.Thomas) and four senior house officers and five clinical assistants.

The department handles maxillo-facial trauma, salivary gland surgeries, oro-facial tumor, surgeries for facial deformities,craniofacial and dental implant treatment.

The unit was allotted 23 inpatient beds. As a registrar, Dr. Thomas was supervising nursing and SHO AND HO responsibilities for the inpatients including preparing the patients for surgery, post-operative management, the delivering of prescribed medications until discharging the patient.

Dr.Thomas was a fully-paid registrar registered with Dental Council of U.K. He was the specialist registrar under the East Anglia Higher Surgical Training. He was a part of the trauma team and was one in three second on call. He has carried out multiple complex operations under general anaesthesia with inter-disciplinary support. He is well versed with medico-legal aspects and aseptic surgical procedures. Twice in a week, he carried out procedures under IV sedation on his own.

During that time,Mr. David Adlam and WT Lam were the consultants. Mr. Ian Robinson was the consultant orthodontist with whom Dr. Thomas closely associated for planning and performing all his orthognathic (jaw deformity) surgeries.

He also spent lot of time in the unit’s craniofacial laboratory and with craniofacial technician (Mr. Peter) and actively participated in the surgical and prosthetic management of craniofacial implant supported prosthesis.

• TRINITY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL – DUBLIN, IRELAND

St. James’s Hospital NHS Trust, Dublin Ireland is Trinity University Hospital. This hospital is known as national tertiary referral center for all specialties. This national maxillofacial department was manned with three consultants, one senior registrar, one registrar (Dr. Thomas) and four senior house officers. Maxillofacial trauma, salivary gland surgeries, orofacialtumor surgeries facial deformities, craniofacial and dental implant treatment were carried out routinely.

Dr.Thomas was a fully paid registrar registered with Dental Council of Republic of Ireland. At that time he was the registrar to Mr. Frank Brady B who was the Dean of the Royal College of Surgeons for the Faculty of Dentistry. Mr. Brady while his training was registrar to Sir Norman Row who is considered as the Father of Modern Maxillofacial Surgery. The other consultant was Mr. Hugh Barry who had enormous interest in dental implants. This hospital was the center for fellowship examinations for RCSI. Dr. Thomas was a part of the trauma team and was one in three second on call. He has carried out multiple complex operation under general anesthesia with interdisciplinary support. He had his own theater list which U.N. supervised twice in a week.

After this extensive working experience he decided to set up his private practice back in Kerala, India. Because of his enormous interest in dental and craniofacial implant treatment he narrowed down his practice predominantly focusing in dental implant treatment.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE ROYAL HOSPITAL (Associate specialist)

CHELTENHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL (Associate specialist)

Special Interests:

• Dental Implants
• CranioFacial Implants
• Orthognathic Surgery (Jaw Deformities)
• Replacement of Lost Teeth