Our Dentist

Dr Hocking has spent many years involved in post-graduate education, both Australia and the UK (Eastman Institute, London), gaining two separate Masters Degrees in clinical dentistry. He is very experienced in both the surgical and prosthetic aspects of implant-supported dentistry so as to be competent to provide the most appropriate dental solutions for all his patients, often collaborating with his referring dentists by providing the surgical aspect of the treatment plan.

Dr Hocking spends most of his clinical life in his largely referral-based practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney. Dr Hocking strives to work in a collaborative way with his dental and medical colleagues to ensure that patients who are referred in for care receive the best and most appropriate treatment for their individual circumstances. He enjoys talking to colleagues about cases they are treating and offering a second opinion when required. The majority of his clinical time is spent carrying out the treatment planning and the surgical aspect of the case so the referring restorative dentist can focus on what he or she enjoys doing most: providing predictable, ideal implant-supported restorations.

Dr Hocking is passionate about mentoring and regularly runs small mentor group meetings with his referring dentists on various topics appropriate to their clinical development, in particular helping them with their more complex cases.

Teaching Commitments

Dr Hocking began teaching at a postgraduate level while at the Eastman Institute in London. He then returned to teach the Fixed Prosthodontics component for the fourth year undergraduate dental students at Westmead Hospital in Sydney for several years.

From 2003 to 2010 he was Course Director for the Extended Fixed Prosthodontics long course at Sydney University’s Department of Continuing Education.

From 2005 until 2017 Dr Hocking sat on the Planning Committee and presented lectures for the Graduate Diploma in Clinical Dentistry (Oral Implants) at the University of Sydney. Since 2012 Dr Hocking has been a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sydney for the Graduate Diploma in Clinical Dentistry, presenting lectures covering various topics including ridge augmentation, implant placement with simultaneous sinus lift, treatment planning in implant supported dentistry, abutment selection and immediate implant placement.

Dr Hocking also presents various postgraduate lectures through the ADA NSW, and short implant-based courses in conjunction with Nobel Biocare and Straumann, including Nobel Biocare’s Advanced Implant Placement and Grafting course in March and September each year with Professor Richard Chan.