Lina Kotecha
Principal Dentist
BDS (Birm) 2000
GDC No. 078081
Lina is dedicated to helping her patients achieve beautiful and healthy smiles. She gets a tremendous amount of satisfaction from seeing patients feel more confident about themselves and their smiles. She feels it is really important to listen to her patients and work with them to find a solution to their problems which meets their individual needs whether they want routine preventative dental care, smile makeovers or facial rejuvenation via her Faces by Lina brand.
Dr Lina Kotecha is a Dental Phobia Certified Dentist Click Here to verify.
Lina is interested in achieving only the very best she can for her patients and the practice. This means ‘getting things right’, and continuously moving forward, utilising new technologies and skills. She is always keen to develop her skills further and spends a lot of her spare time on dental courses.
She has a reputation for consistent and high quality work and Lina’s passionate, professional yet relaxed approach will put patients at ease during consultations and treatment.
She enjoys all aspects of general practice and has a particular interest in facial aesthetics, cosmetic dentistry and treatment of nervous patients. Lina believes in treating patients with total understanding and empathy to their needs. She says “I would always treat patients the same as if I were to treat my family – with total care and respect whilst providing them with the best dental care and choices they deserve”. She approaches dentistry in a unique way that involves positive change, minimal intervention and lots of laughter along the way.
Lina provides our facial rejuvenation treatments, including anti-wrinkle injections, dermal fillers and thread lifts. She has completed a Masterclass in Facial Aesthetics run by the Faculty of General Dental Practitioner in 2015 passing with a distinction. Lina believes that as dentists they are dually trained and qualified as dentists as well as facial aestheticians therefore, they have a very in-depth knowledge of the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the head and neck along with the necessary medical background & educational knowledge to support this.
So, the reassurance you have is that as a practising dentist of over 18 years, Lina is highly skilled when it comes to pain free injection techniques for the comfort of her patients and is a Dental Phobia Certified Dentist.
Outside of dentistry Lina is married to Shrik and has two daughters-Siyana and Anya. She enjoys travelling, walking and keeping healthy through practicing mindfulness.
Lina currently holds membership of the following bodies:
- General Dental Council
- Dental Phobia Certified Dentist
- Dental Protection Society