About Us
Dr Nicholas Hocking, Practice Principal 
B.D.S. (Adel)
M.Sc. (Pros) (Lond)
M.Clin. (Lond)
Lecturer, University of Sydney
Dr Nicholas Hocking completed his Bachelor of Dental Surgery at Adelaide University before moving to London where he completed two further specialist Masters Degrees at the prestigious Eastman Institute of Dental Surgery; the first in Conservative Dentistry in which he achieved a double distinction, the second in Clinical Dentistry (Prosthodontics). Upon completion of this further study, he worked at the Harley Street Clinic and lectured at the Eastman Institute in Implant Dentistry.
Since Dr Hocking’s return to Australia, he has been an associate lecturer in fixed prosthodontics at the University of Sydney, Westmead and currently a lecturer and committee member for the Diploma in Clinical Dentistry (Oral Implants). He is also coordinator of the extension course for dentists, ‘Advanced Crown and Bridge and Veneers’, run by the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Sydney.Dr Hocking operates from the private practice, Sydney Dental Implants, which he established in Macquarie Street in central Sydney. As a consequence of spending a year in Japan as a Rotary exchange student, Dr Hocking speaks fluent Japanese. This ability has attracted a large number of Japanese patients to his practice. A number of his clinical staff are Japanese too.
To date, Dr Hocking has placed more than 5000 implants, both in hospital situations and at his practice at Sydney Dental Implants, using systems such as Straumann, Nobel-biocare, Replace-select and Neoss.
He has lectured in Australia, New Zealand and the UK on such subjects as:
- Implant Supported Restorative Dentistry
- Microscopes in Clinical Dentistry
- Advanced Crown and Bridge and Veneers
- The Clinical Technical Interface
Because of Dr Hocking’s specialist expertise, a large part of Sydney Dental Implants practice is referral based. Dr Hocking always welcomes approaches from other dentists to work collaboratively on the more complex restorative and implant supported dental plans for their patients.