About The Pembroke Dental Practice
Mission Statement :
To provide quality care to patients: this means that decisions are made which favour a desirable outcome which meet the patient’s requirements as much as possible.
Staff :
All staff are committed to further education and post – graduate qualification as a means of keeping up with modern developments and current trends in treatment. The practice has been committed to post – graduate education and under – graduate and nurse education for the last eighteen years. All staff conform to the latest guidelines on safety e.g. hepatitis inoculation
The Principal :
Dr. Peter McGonigal qualified in 1979 from University College Dublin. and worked initially in the Dublin Dental Hospital as a House Officer. He then worked in the Royal Victoria Hospital as a senior house officer before taking a job for a year in practice in West Germany.
Four years in Somerset as a principal followed before returning home to Ireland in 1985 to commence practice in the current venue. He taught part–time in the Dublin Dental Hospital School for nine years teaching student dentists , during which time he taught on the Nurses Evening Course for eight years and was an External Examiner to the British Nurses Examining Board. He took the Postgraduate Diploma In Clinical Dentistry from Trinity College in 1979, the Membership in General Dental Practice from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 2004 and the Fellowship of The Faculty of General Dental Practitioners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2005.
He is a member of both the British and Irish Dental Associations, and a member of numerous professional organisations and is a Mentor for the Fellowship Exam of the Faculty of General Dental Practice of the Royal College of Surgeons, England. He is an Examiner for the MJDF Examination at RCS London and is a founder-member of the Irish Faculty of Primary Dental Care( IFPDC)
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Contact Details
166 Pembroke RdBalsbridge
Dublin 4
