Dr Steve Bonsor

Professional career

Dr Steve Bonsor is heavily involved in dental education having lectured throughout the UK. He taught restorative dentistry at undergraduate level for nearly ten years at the University of Dundee and for eight years at the University of Aberdeen as a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry. Here, he was responsible for delivering the Application of Dental Materials and Biomaterials course.

Dr Bonsor has tutored on the MSc in Restorative Dentistry programme at the University of Edinburgh since 2012 and is now its Programme Director. He also holds a Senior Clinical Lecturer position in Endodontics at Edinburgh Dental Institute. Dr Bonsor is currently an external examiner at the University of Leeds for the third year of the BChD degree and at King’s College London for the MSc Aesthetic Dentistry programme.

Dr Bonsor is actively involved in research having published nearly fifty original papers in peer reviewed journals with his main research areas being antimicrobial photodynamic therapy and the clinical performance of dental materials. His undergraduate textbook “A Clinical Guide to Applied Dental Materials” was published in December 2012. He also sits on the editorial boards of three journals, namely Dental Update, Aesthetic Update and the European Journal of Prosthodontics and Restorative Dentistry. He is a reviewer for a number of dental journals and a key influencer for a number of dental material and equipment manufacturers.

His background is in general dental practice having worked in the North East of Scotland for 30 years. He owned a private practice in Aberdeen for 21 years where he accepted referrals for restorative and surgical cases.

Academic career

Dr Bonsor graduated with Honours from the University of Edinburgh in 1992 and he gained an MSc at the University of Bristol in 2008. He was awarded Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2016 and is an examiner for the MFDS examination at this College.

He was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh’s Faculty of Dental Trainers as a Member in 2017 and Fellow in 2022 and he now sits on this Faculty’s executive committee. He is also a Fellow of the College of General Dentistry and AdvanceHE.