Meet The Team
Our team are highly qualified and trained to work within the numerous specialities of modern dentistry.
You will find our staff to be friendly and approachable, who are always happy to answer your questions with personal care
Practice Owners / Principal Dentist
CQC Registered Manager/Providers
Dr Farrokhe -GDC Number.71389
Dr Eftekhari -GDC Number.81341
Bear Cross Dental practice was established over 20 years ago by Dr Oghabi Sajjadi, Dr Sajjadi sold the business in December 2022 to Dr Farrokhe and Dr Eftekhari who are highly committed to ensuring the practice provides the highest level of care and ethical treatment for all our patients.
The practice philosophy is that we are committed to provide the highest standards of dental care guided by evidence based dentistry.
Clinical Team/Dentists
Dr Taghee Farrokhe
Lead Dentist
CQC Registered Manager
GDC Number: 71389
Dr Farrokhe (DDS Sweden) 1994, MSc (Warwick certificate level) in implantology
His expertise extends to implant placements with bone augmentation and sinus lifting.
Member of the regional fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Dr Farrokhe is passionate about providing high quality and comfortable dentistry without compromising on the aesthetic outcome, his particular interest lies in creating natural looking smiles.
Away from dentistry, Dr Farrokhe is a keen athlete and regularly attends his local West Hants Tennis Club, where he partakes in squash and volley ball.
Dr Hossein Eftekhari
Associate dental surgeon
GDC Number: 81341
Dr Eftekhari (DDS Sweden) in 1997.
Dr Eftekhari is a very compassionate and caring general dental practitioner and has been working in the NHS for 20+ years.
With a special interest in cosmetic dentistry, endodontics and oral surgery Dr Eftekhari offers a broad range of dental services and treatments.
In his spare time away for the surgery, he very much likes to spend time with his friends and family.
Dr Parvin Fazelipour
Associate Dentist
GDC Number: 80239
Dr Fazelipour (DDS Sweden) in 2001
Dr Fazelipour joined our team in 2005 and with her passionate and caring nature and her 19+ years of experience she is perfect with our anxious and nervous patients.
In her spare time she loves to cook and spend time with her friends and family.
Dr Sanarya Aldeen
Associate Dentist
GDC Number: 178020
Hygienists
Ms Marzyeh Oghabi Sajjadi
GDC Number: 152775
Management/Administration Team
Anna-Marie Harrison
Practice Manager/Dental Nurse
GDC No.232826 - NVQ L3 Dental Nursing & VRQ L3 Dental Nursing City & Guilds 2011
Anna-Marie is a qualified dental nurse with many years of experience in management. As a key function of her role as practice manager, Anna-Marie ensures that both patients and staff are both happy and the practice runs smoothly on a day to day basis.
Anna-Marie enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter and socialising with friends.
Homa Kia Ghavami
Dental Receptionist
Homa, known as Kia by our patients, joined our practice as an experienced dental receptionist in January 2017.
She prides herself in looking after our patients at the front desk and helping to put them at ease when they come to see us.
In her spare time she enjoys keeping fit at the gym as well as socailising with friends.
Sally Denney
Dental Receptionist
Sally joined our practice as an experienced medical PA in July 2019, from her busy days working in a doctors surgery Sally could easily transfer her skills into dentistry.
Sally works along side Homa aka Kia and completes our reception team.
In her spare time Sally very much likes to go for long walks with her dog.
Clinical Support/Nursing Team
Amie White
Qualified Dental Nurse/Head Nurse
GDC Number: 288801
Amie is our head at the practice and ensures that all the nurses adhere to our practice policies and procedures.
With a true love for dentistry Amie works hard to ensure that works to the best of her ability and has a great rapport with all of her team mates.
Amie loves keeping fit and regularly goes to the gym, she also likes to spend time with friends and family.
Karen Brooks-Nunne
Qualified Dental Nurse
GDC Number: 108052
Karen has been a perfect addition to our team, Karen joined Bear Cross Partnership, from a practice where she worked for 17 years.
Karen is a skillful and experienced dental nurse, with her natural rapport with patients she is also a popular member of the team.
In her spare time Karen loves to spend time with her husband and likes socialise with friends and family.
Neha Lanjewar
Qualified Dental Nurse
GDC: 311376
Neha joined the practice in July 2022, and underwent her vocational dental nursing training with the practice.
Neha has since completed her dental nursing course and become a qualified nurse at the practice.
In her spare time she loves to spend time with friends and family.
Dental Trainee
The practice participates in supporting the school leavers, young adults to facilitate a career in dental nursing, and as such we take part in the Government gateway apprenticeship scheme
Miss Abigail White
Abigail joined our team in September 2023 as a trainee dental nurse, sister to our head/lead nurse Amie White, Abigail has shown great ambition and is enjoying learning all aspects of her new role.
In her spare time Abigail loves to engage with her friends and family.
We are an equal opportunity employer
We can provide translation services for the following languages; English, Swedish, Turkish and Farsi. Any other languages not mentioned above we endeavour to arrange for a translation service to be provided.
Where possible, we encourage patients to bring family members to assist with translation during their treatment.