Stephen is a qualified Dental Technician and also Managing Director at McDowell + Service Dental Laboratory LTD. Stephen qualified as a Dental Technician in 1987 at Manchester Polytechnic and in his final year won The Student of The Year Award. He served his apprenticeship and gained valuable experience working in one of Europe’s largest dental laboratories in Bolton in England. He returned to his homeland in 1995, gaining a position in the Crown and Bridge Department at McDowell+Service, operating on all aspects of metalwork and implant cases. He has attended many training courses, throughout Ireland, the United Kingdom and Europe and he now applies his talents in Ceramic work and in particular eMax pressable ceramics.
Jo was born in Manchester and studied at Manchester Metropolitan University, qualifying in 1995 with a BTEC National Diploma in Dental Technology. After working for a time in England Jo moved to Belfast in 1996 and has been a technician for the last 30+ years, Jo joined our prosthetic department in 2007 and works on Implant Prosthetics (hybrid bars), overdentures, including Columbus Bridge Protocol. Jo recently trained for surgery visits for All-On-4 cases. Jo has been a registered certified Valplast technician since 2008 and specialises in this field. If you have any queries at all or need some advice as to how to go about prescribing a Valplast denture for your patient, call Jo, she has a wealth of knowledge and experience and can discuss and all aspects of Valplast . In May 2020 Jo was elected to the council of the Dental Technologist Association.
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