dental Centenary
Olympic Dentistry The Institute was asked by LOCOG to manage the London 2012 Dental Clinic for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. A Clinical Lead team included Dr Wendy Turner (q BDS, The London, 1992), Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant; Dr Judith Jones (q BDS, The London, 1987), Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant, and Dr Jason Niggli (q MClinDent Prosthodontics, Barts and The London, 2005), Clinical Lecturer and Senior Tutor, as Dental Leads and Dr Mike Cattell (q MSc Dental Technology, The London, 1994), Senior Lecturer in Dental Technology, as Laboratory Lead with Lucy Price, General Manager (Dentistry), leading administration. Overall, the Olympic Dental service had 25 dentists, 26 nurses, 10 hygienists, 10 dental technicians and two receptionists. Alongside staff members, there were also dental volunteers, many of whom were alumni. The team treated 100 patients a day, saw 2,000 patients during the Olympics
Professor Farida Fortune (centre), Dean for Dentistry, with Dr Wendy Turner (second right), Dr Judith Jones (far right) and colleagues
and 1,000 during the Paralympics. The majority of the treatment was general dentistry with plenty of periodontal issues, caries and extractions. The Dental Lab team provided temporary dental crowns,
Dental Outreach Clinic at Southend The Barts and The London Academic Dental Clinic at Southend-on-Sea, Essex offers members of the public free, routine NHS dentistry undertaken by senior dental students under the supervision of qualified dentists. Treatments include check-ups; preventive advice and treatment; simple gum treatment; routine fillings; simple root canal treatment; straight forward extractions; simple crowns and bridges and dentures. Students benefit from qualified nursing support and a range of high-tech equipment, including 20 state-of-the-art dental chairs and bays, complete with networked IT facilities. There are over 3,000 patients registered at the clinic and all fourth year students spend time there as part of their training. The clinic is part of Southend Health and Dental Care and was developed in partnership with Barts Health NHS Trust, NHS South Essex, Barts and The London
HRH The Princess Royal meets students at the official opening of the Academic Dental Clinic in Southend in 2008 © Nicky Lewin
School of Medicine and Dentistry and the University of Essex. It was officially opened in April 2008 by HRH The Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University of London.
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bridges, dentures and an extensive and successful mouth guard programme. Dental facilities were also provided at the Eton Dorney (rowing and sprint canoe) and Weymouth (sailing) sites.
in the UK; this has been an area of major investment. Head and neck carcinomas, the sixth most common cancer worldwide and a significant public health issue within the local population in East London, where south Asian men have a four-fold greater risk of developing oral cancer than the UK population in general. The early identification of oral cancer could have a great health economic impact if achieved and dentists would have a large role to play in this. The fourth and final area is Patient and Population Orientated Research. The group’s main mission is to address social oral health inequalities in the burden of oral diseases at local, national and global levels; to identify oral health protective factors; and to develop a cost effective oral health promotion strategy, which includes minimal intervention evidence-based dental care. This patient and population-orientated research represents a major new development in the Institute of Dentistry’s research strategy and will lead to the further development of a strong research team to test the patient benefits of findings from basic science research through to methodologically rigorous randomised clinical trials.
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