Chris Gocher B.D.S. qualified from University of Newcastle upon Tyne with honours in 1989 so has worked for 33 years in general dental practice. After two years in a practice of his home town of Southend in Essex, he has mastered his skills in private practice in the Gold Coast of Australia before returning to the UK to bring up his family. He then worked as a practice partner in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland before setting up a private practice in 2015 in the town he now lives, Ballymena. To carry out the high standard of cosmetic dentistry he experienced in Australia, he did a 2-year Restorative dentistry course at the prestigious Eastman Postgraduate University in London.
Chris did his initial implant training at the Nova South Eastern University in Florida in 2003 and followed this by attending an advanced surgical course in Munich in 2006. He has attended numerous courses and conferences on both cosmetic dentistry and implants since then in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Gothenburg, Switzerland and London. He has placed thousands of implants.