A dentist who lied about his surgical experience before giving a lecture to a room packed with Oxford graduates and surgeons can now return to work.

Vishwadev Anand embellished his CV and boasted of having published articles in a magazine that did not exist.

But after being caught out by a group of surgeons who recognised him, he was found guilty of serious professional misconduct and told to get his qualifications in order. The General Dental Council heard Anand gave his lecture titled Oral Surgery in your Surgery to specialists at the Four Pillars Hotel in Sandford-on-Thames.

He claimed he was a registrar in oro-maxillo-facial surgery at the city's John Radcliffe Hospital and had carried out almost 200 operations. But his boasts surprised three oral surgeons from John Radcliffe in the audience who knew Anand as a locum registrar who had worked at the hospital for just 10 months. Anand, of Blenheim Drive, in North Oxford, denied deliberately misleading colleagues, claiming any inaccuracies were down to clerical errors, but last year he was found guilty.

When suspended for 12 months, Anand was told to provide an accurate CV and evidence of on-going training.

Allowing him back to work, chairman Mary Clark-Glass told the dentist: "You have attended more than the required number of courses."