Dental Leaders Podcast

From pizza shop to Maxfax theatre — Sina Gilannejad’s route into dentistry is anything but straightforward. Born in Northern Ireland to Iranian parents, Sina brings a rare blend of warmth, self-awareness, and hard-won clinical confidence to this conversation. 

He opens ...

Meghan Chard is many things at once — principal dentist, practice owner, mum of three, and quietly passionate evangelist for childhood airway health. 

In this episode, she sits down with Payman for a wide-ranging conversation that takes in meeting her husband Simon at dental school, buying his family’s Leicestershire practice a month before their first child arriv...

What happens when a mechanical engineer spends a decade fixing factories, then walks away from it all to start dental school at 34? Henry Totterdell joins Payman to tell that story. 

He talks about the years spent solving problems on aircraft carriers and chemotherapy production lines, the slow-burning itch to do something with his hands, and why he finally took t...

Ali Al-Hassan is the walking embodiment of work hard, play hard — a young dentist who’s gone from associate to super associate, practice co-owner and globe-trotter, all while building a following that brings patients straight to his chair. 

In this episode, he and Payman get into what really separates an ordinary associate from a “super” one: bringing in your own ...

Professor Tara Renton OBE brings four generations of dental history — and a career built on curiosity rather than ambition — to her conversation with Payman.

 From navigating undiagnosed dyslexia and a father who begged her not to follow him into dentistry, to becoming the first female chair of oral surgery at King’s College London, her story is one of serendipity...