Dr. Jaspaul Seehra grew up in the United Kingdom and moved to the lower mainland of British Columbia as a teenager. He graduated from Simon Fraser University with a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Biosciences and attended the University of British Columbia for Post Baccalaureate studies in Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He completed his Doctorate in Dental Surgery at the University of Washington in 1992 and practiced dentistry in Washington State prior to returning to graduate school in the United Kingdom where he completed an M.Sc. in Oral Surgery.

Dr. Seehra returned to British Columbia where he opened his general private practice limited to Oral Surgery in Vancouver in 2000. He joined the Faculty of Dentistry at UBC as a clinical instructor due to his desires to help medically compromised and marginalized patients.

Dr. Seehra became one of the founding dentists of the Portland Dental Clinic in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and during this time he completed a General Practice Residency at UBC with a focus on TMD & Orofacial Pain Management. His role as a clinical instructor included mentoring the senior dental students, residents and graduate students at the Portland Dental Clinic, as well as at the Vancouver General Hospital, B.C. Cancer Agency, UBC Specialty Clinics and St. Paul’s Hospital Dental Clinic.

Dr. Seehra was granted privileges and brought on as staff for Fraser health covering oro-facial trauma in 2000. He served at St. Mary’s and Royal Columbian hospitals. In 2003, Surrey Memorial Hospital requested him to join their Dental Surgery team, which he did for several years.

Dr. Seehra also worked as a dental consultant with Work Safe BC and he assisted the B.C. Dental Association in helping his colleagues understand the effects of Crystal Methamphetamines on the oral / dental tissues. He has represented the B.C.D.A (British Columbia Dental Association) at the C.D.A (Canadian Dental Association) in Ottawa for issues concerning access to dental care for patients with addictions, poverty, socio-economic disadvantage, physical and mental health barriers.

Presently, Dr. Seehra has retained privileges at the Royal Columbian and Eagle Ridge Hospitals and remains on staff for Fraser Health where he continues to treat dental surgery and facial trauma patients. He maintains private practices in Burnaby and New Westminster where he enjoys providing simple to complex dental surgery and Implantology procedures.