Meet the Team

Sara Taylor

Practice Director

Sara oversees all of the practices in the group to ensure they are delivering the quality services our patients expect. She works with each of the practice managers in their day to day roles of practice management.

Sara is also a fully qualified dental nurse and can sometimes been seen covering for staff absence in the surgery, nursing or on the reception welcoming patients to the practice. Sara firmly believes that all team members should be willing to ‘roll up their sleeves and do whatever is necessary to ensure we provide a continuous quality service to our patients’.

At home Sara is also busy with her twin sons who are in their first year of university and looking after her horse, dog and cats!!

Anne Marie Walters

Practice Manager

Anne-Marie has been working with us at Expressions Dental Care Ltd. since January 2003 and is responsible for the day to day running of our practices.

You may meet her on the reception desk here in Ripley, as she likes to leave her desk and meet the patients whenever she can.

Outside of work, Anne-Marie enjoys walking in the Peak District and spending time with family.

Sarah Thomas

Practice Supervisor – GDC: 253035

Sarah Joined Expressions dental care in 2012 at our sister practice in Ripley.

Sarah completed her National in dental nursing in 2014. Sarah joined the Derby practice in 2019 and you will find Sarah mainly working on reception or in the surgeries.

In her spare time Sarah enjoys spending time with her daughter and with her horses.

Gemma Beswick

Treatment Co-ordinator – GDC: 148552

Gemma is our Patient Care Co-ordinator and qualified dental nurse. She joined the team in 2005.
She has completed numerous additional courses to ensure her work is of the highest standard.

Out of work Gemma enjoys spending time with her family and walking her new puppy!

Dr Christos Koumlelis DDS Msc

Dentist – GDC: 260315

After qualifying in Greece in 2006 at Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Dental Faculty, Chris continued on to qualify in Surgical Implantology in 2015.

Prior to joining the practice Chris worked as an Associate dentist in Glasgow.

Dr Leah Sears

Dentist – GDC: 212913

Dr Sears interests within dentistry are in prevention and calming anxious or dental phobic patients.

Leah takes her time for each patient to make them feel at ease and to give the best treatment available for each patient.

Anita Kedziorek

Hygiene Therapist – GDC: 190334

Anita joined Osmaston Road Dental Practice in February 2014. Anita works three days at the practice treating and maintaining patients oral hygiene. Anita graduated in her Diploma in Dental Hygiene in Poland in 2012.

Anita’s main interest is treating and maintaining periodontal disease and educating patients on oral hygiene routine to be carried out at home.

Anita in her spare time likes spending time with her family and friends, watching a good movie or reading a book, cooking and the theatre.