Dr Michael is an accomplished dental surgeon and highly experienced medico-legal expert specialising in personal injury and dental clinical negligence. With more than two decades of clinical practice and extensive formal legal training, he provides authoritative, balanced, and CPR-compliant expert evidence for both claimant and defendant instructions.

Dr Michael holds a Bachelor of Dental Surgery, a Master of Laws (LLM) in the Legal Aspects of Medical Practice, and a Diploma in Legal Medicine. He is fully certified as an expert witness, with comprehensive Cardiff University Bond Solon (CUBS) training in civil procedure, report writing, courtroom skills, and cross-examination.

Over the last four years, Dr Michael has been instructed on more than 200 medico-legal cases, including over 100 clinical negligence cases in the past two years alone. His casework spans the full breadth of general dentistry, such as restorative and prosthetic treatments, periodontal disease, radiographic interpretation, misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis, treatment planning, catastrophic facial trauma, and regulatory compliance, including Covid-19 standards.

He is able to provide well-reasoned expert opinion on causation, liability, breach of duty and condition and prognosis. He is experienced in working collaboratively with legal professionals and medical experts and is able to provide oral evidence in court when required.

Dr Michael has extensive experience in cases associated with:

Personal injury related to:

• Road traffic accidents (RTA)
• Accidents at work
• Catastrophic facial injuries
• Criminal matters

Clinical negligence cases relating to: 

• Mistakes in treatment leading to the loss of damage of multiple teeth
• Peridontal – incorrect treatment for gum disease and misdiagnosis
• Gerenal restorative – missed decay, poor standard of fillings, issues with crown and bridgework
• Prosthetics – dentures and their provision
• Implants – restoration issues and treatment planning
• Root canal work
• Soft tissue – cancer screening
• Radiographs – frequency of x-rays, the review of those x-rays, misdiagnosis of issues visible
• Delayed or incorrect diagnosis – including oral cancer misdiagnosis
• Covid 19 compliance

Orthodontics:

• Incorrect treatment planning or supervision
• Root resorption, tooth mobility or poor occlusion outcomes
• Retention or relapse issues due to inadequate retention planning

General Dentistry:

• Missed or delayed diagnosis of dental disease (caries, abscess, oral cancer)
• Failure to diagnose or manage periodontal (gum) disease
• Extraction errors (wrong tooth, nerve injury, sinus perforation)
• Inadequate root canal (endodontic) treatment
• Poor treatment planning or record keeping
• Failure to obtain informed consent
• Restorative dentistry and fillings
• Complications with root canal treatments
• Loss of teeth

Prosthodontics:

• Faulty dentures, bridges and crowns
• Poor occulsal balance causing pain or temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction

Dr Michael’s appointment availability is 1-2 weeks and has a report turnaround time of  3-4 weeks.