Dr. Jeff Field
Anaesthesiologist, Male
Professional Background
Dr Jeff Field is our resident expert in safely sedating
patients, so you can have the perception of going to sleep and waking up with the procedure all completed.
He is the only North American Board Certified Dental
Anaesthesiologist in Australia certified by National Dental Board of Anaesthesia of the American Dental Association. He has lectured in areas of Dental Sedation, Surgical Teeth Extractions and Dental Implants in Australia, Canada and Qatar.
With close to 35 years of expertise in sedation, Oral Surgery and all forms of general dental procedures, Jeff always makes the experience extremely simple and smooth.
Dr Jeff has 11 years of university (post-secondary school) education
and training and 35 years of practice experience to help you achieve an optimal treatment outcome. He started his education at the University of Western Ontario Canada where he completed an honours degree in both physiology and pharmacology. (1984)
He then attended the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry
where he completed a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree. (1988)
He trained in Oral Surgery through the University of Manitoba
in Canada. (1989) and he completed the Nobel implant surgical training through New York University. (1990)
He then completed the fellowship in Dental Anesthesiology through the American Society of Dental Anesthesia (2000). Although trained/qualified in general anesthesia in North America, Dr Jeff does not
practice general anesthesia within Australia.
In 2005, he was granted the Endorsement in conscious
sedation from AHPRA, which is the only dental sedation qualification recognized in Australia.
Throughout his career, he has been involved in teaching both
medical and dental students and residents in both anesthesia, sedation and maxillofacial trauma. As well, he has been involved in teaching for general dentists, in the areas of minor oral surgery, implant surgery and both hard and soft issue grafting.
Dr Jeff has been a frequent lecturer for the Australian Society of Dental Anesthesia (ASDA) and a past council member for ASDA.
He has been a lecturer in the only training program for dental seditionist in Australia, which is the Graduate Diploma in Conscious Sedation and Pain Management though the University of Sydney. Westmead Hospital. In Canada he lectured to Emergency Medicine residents on maxillofacial trauma.