Sam is an Advanced Hygienist who has been working with Dr Stern for over 6 years. Sam has a wealth of experience looking after patients with complex Periodontal and implant needs. The outstanding care and excellent results the Perio Centre team provide mean that Sam builds up long-lasting relationships with many of her patients!
Seeing Sam is a unique hygiene visit – patients regularly report they have never had an experience like it before.
Sam first started in Dentistry at the age of just 16 in her home county of Somerset; within a few days, she knew it was a love affair that would last forever.
Sam relishes a challenge, so she moved to working in the Community Dental Service and got to treat a variety of patients. This ranged from prisoners to end of life care patients, nursery children to domiciliary care, general anaesthesia to extremely vulnerable and nervous patients (even those who needed her to see them in the car park)! It provided her with broad experience treating a variety of complex cases and made her fall in love with dentistry even more.
Sam qualified with Distinction from the University of Essex and soon discovered her passion of treating more severe cases of periodontal disease alongside Simon. Furthering her education is of utmost importance to Sam – she has since completed many post-graduation courses in the Hygiene field and is GBT qualified which makes her skills and experience a rarity.
In her personal time, Sam and her partner Philip have a beautiful cocker spaniel called Rudi. He is their pet child and they enjoy taking him on muddy weekend walks – he even climbed Scafell Pike with them!