Dental Implants



Dental implants are simply incomparable in dentistry, for the potential they have in improving your quality of life. Eating and chewing becomes easy once more. Your smile will look natural and attractive because teeth will look and feel similar to those replaced. As a consequence, after treatment, many patients even report increased confidence in all aspects of their lives.
The Sandford is one of a few referral centres in the South East that has all expertise under one roof, making the patient journey efficient and effortless when it comes to managing complex treatment requiring input from different specialities.
As leaders in our industry, our highly skilled and friendly team of dental surgeons will provide you with excellent dental implant treatments. Using the latest dental innovations and state of the art in-house facilities, we can offer a complete range of implant options, whether to replace a single tooth or a complex full smile reconstruction.

Meet Our Implant Experts

Hussein Shaffie
Principal Dentist / Implant Surgeon
[GDC No. 74026]
DDS Sweden
Dr Shaffie is the founder and the principal dentist of Bexleyheath Dental Practice and The Sandford Implant and Cosmetic Centre. He relocated to the United Kingdom with his family 1998... Read More
and began his highly ambitious career in general dentistry, especially treating patients with severe dental phobia using intravenous sedation.
In October 2011, Dr Shaffie underwent his Diploma in Implantology a the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and has undertaken several complex multidisciplinary cases along side his team of two other implant dentists.
Furthermore, Dr Shaffie attends both national and international course on a regular basis , and has received certificates in sedation, dental phobia and facial rejuvenation. He is a member BDA, FGDP RCS Eng, SAAD, ADI, RSM


Katarzyna Shaffie
Implant Surgeon
[GDC No. 84563]
DDS, DipImpDent RCS (Eng) MSc
Having graduated with honours from Pomeranian Medical University in Poland in 1999, Kat is a general dentist with special interests in advanced restorative procedures and dental... Read More
implants. She started her journey working in a community hospital and later as an assistant in the Department of General Dentistry of the Medical University in Poland, where she was successfully awarded with DDS in the following subject “Oxidant and antioxidant mechanisms in pathogenesis and periodontitis”.
Then she started to specialise in prosthedontics and completed many international courses. Kat moved her professional career to the UK in 2005. Since then she has subsequently attended extensive higher education courses across Europe and the UK, ran by some of the most eminent clinicians.
Kat has been awarded the highly regarded Diploma in Implant Dentistry from the Royal College of Dental Surgeons in London in 2008 and works closely with Nobel Biocare and Ankylos implant systems, After submitting her dissertation Kat was awarded the degree of MSc in Dental Implantology from the University of Salford 2010.
She is an author of many dental articles and Kat is a member of the Association of Dental Implantology, The Faculty of the Royal college of Surgeons, British Dental Association, General Dental Council, Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry and the Royal Society of Medicine.