Bashir Kassam was born in Kenya. He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1976 and established his own dental practice in 1977. General Dental Practice has been his mainstay and passion, but he also worked in the Community Dental Service, as a Research Fellow and as a Clinical Tutor at the Birmingham Dental Hospital. His work in the Community Dental Service sparked an interest in conscious sedation, which led him on to achieve a Diploma in Conscious Sedation at Newcastle University. Since completing the Diploma in 1997, Bashir has carried out over a 1000 intravenous sedations both in general practice and working with specialists and selected as a trainer for the sedation course by The Faculty of General Dental Practitioners. He also holds a Postgraduate Studies Diploma from Bristol University (2002) in Oral Surgery, Endodontics and Periodontics. Towards the latter part of his career he pursued Implant Dentistry under Prof. Hilt Tatum at the Tatum Institute, culminating in the Implant Dentistry Diploma at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 2014. Since then, he has placed and restored over 500 implants.

Bashir is very keen on continuing professional development and life-long learning. He also has a growing interest in Medico-legal work and has recently been awarded the Expert Witness Certificate from Cardiff University Law School and Full Membership of the Expert Witness Institute. He is also an Associate Fellow of the College of General Dental Practice (UK).

He is committed to providing quality care that serves the patients best interests and is particularly reassuring and understanding with anxious patients.

Bashir currently splits his time between Private Dental Practice and Medico-legal work.