He served as a house officer and demonstrator of operative dentistry at the Royal Dental Hospital, then was appointed full surgeon.
During the First World War, he served as consulting dental surgeon to the Croydon War Hospital and the Ministry of Pensions, and for these services he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in January 1920.
[1] In 1922, he was elected first president of the British Society of Dental Surgeons, which he had been instrumental in forming to oppose the admission of unqualified dentists to the British Dental Association.
In 1900 he was appointed honorary curator of the odontological museum at the Royal Dental Hospital, which was later moved to the Royal College of Surgeons, and retained the position for the rest of his life.
His publications included the textbook Dental Surgery and Pathology (with Evelyn Sprawson; it reached eight editions within his lifetime), Old Instruments for Extracting Teeth (1952), Dental Surgery and Pathology (1910),[3] Dental Disease and its Relation to General Medicine (1911),[4] John Hunter and Odontology (1913),[5] Chronic General Periodontitis, and Variations and Diseases of the Teeth of Animals (1936; with revised 2nd edition in 1990 and paperback reprint of 1990 edition in 2003[6]).