Khursheed Francis Moos was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Glasgow Dental Hospital. Born in Greenwich, south east London, in 1934 and educated at Dulwich College, he qualified in dentistry from Guy’s Hospital dental school in 1957. He achieved his fellowship of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1961 while undertaking his National Service as a captain in the Royal Army Dental Corps. Deciding on a career in oral surgery, he realised that a medical training would be highly desirable and obtained his medical qualifications at University College Hospital medical school in 1964. In 1966 he was appointed as a senior registrar in oral surgery at the University of Wales Dental School. According to Russell Hopkins, who would later become president of the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the clinics which he ran with Khursheed at Cardiff where held in low esteem by the then dean and they were not allowed to teach the students, who nonetheless queued to join their clinics and attend their operating lists! Here Khursheed gained his first experience of joint clinics, which were to become a feature of his later time in Scotland. These were organised by Russell Hopkins in orthognathic surgery with Derek Seel and in maxillofacial prosthetics with John Bates and Derek Stafford. In 1969 Khursheed was appointed as a consultant oral surgeon at Warwick, where he found himself very much on his own, but five years later he moved to Canniesburn Hospital, on the outskirts of Glasgow, where he briefly joined Derek Henderson before the latter moved to St Thomas’ Hospital, London. Thereafter Khursheed, with his colleagues, developed a clinical service for facial trauma and the treatment of facial deformity which, after their move to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, served the whole of the west of Scotland. Here he continued to develop an internationally renowned unit and attract outstanding staff. Khursheed published widely in frontline journals, making major contributions to the development of oral and maxillofacial surgery worldwide. Later, as dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, he promoted the Faculty’s overseas initiatives and in 1992 was appointed as an honorary professor by the University of Glasgow. Three years later, he received an OBE for services to surgery and education. He continued to teach and supervise research after his retirement in 1999. He was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2007. Khursheed died peacefully at his home surrounded by his family on 31 May 2025. He was 90. He will be remembered not only for his surgical expertise and academic prowess, but also for his humility, wisdom and kindness, which touched the lives of his colleagues, students and patients alike.