缅北禁地

I am a practising Consultant in Special Care Dentistry. Qualified in 2000, I have worked across the NHS in hospital, GP and community NHS dentistry and in 2011, I completed a PhD. In 2016 I was awarded an NIHR post-doctoral fellowship and in 2019 I completed my clinical training in Special Care Dentistry.

Currently, as Senior Clinical Lecturer / Honorary Consultant in Special Care Dentistry, I provide clinical dentistry for adults with complex health and care needs, I teach on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and I undertake research into the organisation and delivery of dental services for older dependent people. My work seeks to celebrate and promote the humanistic aspects of dental care while also embracing the opportunities of technology to improve oral health and wellbeing.

I am the Director for Student Support and Progress in the School of Dental Sciences, leading a team of Personal and Senior Tutors to support students to maximise their clinical and academic potential and gain the most from their time at 缅北禁地 Dental School.

I lead a range of co-design research projects to deliver interventions focussed on improving dental care for older people with complex health and care needs. Driven by my frustrations with proprietary software available in NHS community dentistry I organised in 缅北禁地 and then led 'Odonto', an innovation project that co-designed, developed and implemented software as part of the wider project. Odonto is used daily in an NHS community dentistry to effectively record clinical and financial data and then ensure robust integration of this data with the national software used by NHS Business Service Authority. This work is published under a creative commons licence here on and

I can also be found on

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Dental Surgery (缅北禁地, 2000)
• Member of Faculty of Dental Surgery (Edinburgh, 2004)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Conscious Sedation (缅北禁地, 2004)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (缅北禁地, 2008)
• Fellow of Higher Education Academy (2008)
• PhD (缅北禁地, 2011)
• Membership in Special Care Dentistry (Edinburgh, 2019)

Memberships

• Committee member - British Society of British Society of Gerodontology           
• British Society of Disability and Oral Health
• Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)
• Higher Education Academy
• International Association of Dental Research

My doctoral research played a pivotal role in a large interdisciplinary project working with local & regional collaborators in which I led a trial to investigate the clinical and cytokine response following periodontal intervention in patients with diabetes.

More recently, driven by my clinical work within community-based NHS dentistry the focus of my research has changed. I am now particularly concerned with addressing the challenges of improving the dental care for older people with complex health and care needs.

I have established and developed research collaboration within the  and the . I am an active member of the Oral Healthcare and Epidemiology group within the School of Dental Sciences.

Research Supervision

Previous supervisor of three MSc, two MRes and two PhD students (all successfully completed).

I am currently supervising one PhD student and one MRes student.

I am keen to hear from prospective doctoral students in my areas of interest.

I have built up a strong teaching background within the  where I have been involved both in the clinical and administrative side of teaching. Within the school I am involved in teaching and learning activities for both the and the .

As Director for Student Progress and Support within the Dental School, I provide senior tutor input across both undergraduate courses and the  within the school.

More broadly I am involved in dental core training and I also deliver postgraduate courses to dentists and other dental care professionals through the  Continued Professional development programme for dentistry. 

I believe that excellent clinical teaching skills should be underpinned by sound theoretical knowledge and I have undertaken the 缅北禁地 Certificate in Academic Practice and gained accreditation as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

• Articles

  • Brocklehurst P, Langley J, Wassall R, Daniyal S, Syed SS, Harvey M, Goulden N, Sherriff A, Heilmann A, Hoare Z, Smith C, Watt R, O'Neill C, Kee F, Cairns P, Lievesley N, McKenna G, Tsakos G. . Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 2025, 53(2), 152-159.
  • BaHammam F, Durham J, Abdulmohsen B, Wassall R, McCracken GI. . Journal of Dentistry 2024, 143, 104896.
  • BaHammam FA, Akhill J, Stewart M, Abdulmohsen B, Durham J, McCracken GI, Wassall R. . Special Care in Dentistry 2024, 44(1), 57-74.
  • Geddis-Regan A, Abley C, Exley C, Wassall R. . JDR Clinical and Translational Research 2024, 9(3), 221-230.
  • Langley J, Wassall R, Geddis-Regan A, Watson S, Verey A, McKenna G, Brocklehurst P, Tsakos G. . Gerodontology 2023, 40(1), 112-126.
  • BaHammam F, Durham J, Abdulmohsen B, Wassall R, McCracken GI. . British Dental Journal 2023, 235, 881-885.
  • Geddis-Regan A, Wassall RR, Abley C, Exley C. . Gerodontology 2023, 41(1), 83-93.
  • BaHammam FA, McCracken GI, Wassall B, Durham J, Abdulmohsen B. . BMC Oral Health 2022, 22, 208.
  • Desai R, Khobaragade B, McCracken G, Wassall R, Taylor JJ, Bissett SM, Pumerantz AS, Preshaw PM. . BDJ Open 2021, 7(1), 9.
  • Geddis-Regan A, Errington L, Abley C, Wassall R, Exley C, Thomson R. . Health Expectations 2021, 24(1), 19-32.
  • Preshaw PM, Taylor JJ, Jaedicke KM, De Jager M, Bikker JW, Selten W, Bissett SM, Whall KM, van de Merwe R, Arebi A, Jitprasertwong P, Al-Shawani R, Weaver J, Taylor R, Wassall RR. . Journal of Clinical Periodontology 2020, 47(6), 737-746.
  • Watson S, McMullan J, Brocklehurst P, Tsakos G, Watt RG, Wassall RR, Sherriff A, Ramsay SE, Karki AJ, Tada S, Lappin C, Donaldson M, McKenna G. . Trials 2020, 21(1), 599.
  • Bowes C, Page G, Wassall R, Lloyd C. . British Dental Journal 2019, 227, 58-60.
  • Brocklehurst P, Williams L, Hoare Z, Goodwin T, McKenna G, Tsakos G, Chestnutt IG, Pretty I, Wassall R, Jerkovi-Osi K, Hayes M, Watt RG, Burton C. . Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2019, 2019(5).
  • Brocklehurst PR, Langley J, Baker SR, McKenna G, Smith C, Wassall R. . British Dental Journal 2019, 227(1), 15-18.
  • Geddis-Regan A, Asuni A, Walton G, Wassall R. . British Dental Journal 2019, 227(1), 38-42.
  • Geddis-Regan AR, Stewart M, Wassall RR. . Journal of Oral Rehabilitation 2018, 46(2), 189-199.
  • Pumerantz AS, Bissett SM, Dong F, Ochoa C, Wassall RR, Davila H, Barbee M, Nguyen J, Vila P, Preshaw PM. . BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 2017, 5(1), e000413.
  • Wassall RR, Preshaw PM. . Periodontology 2000 2016, 7070(1), 65-79.
  • Irani FC, Wassall RR, Preshaw PM. . Journal of Dentistry 2015, 43(5), 506-511.
  • Wassall R, Jaedicke KJ, Taylor JJ, Preshaw PM. . Diabetologia 2012. In Preparation.
  • Wassall RR, Preshaw PM. . Perio 2006, 3(4), 243-252.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Geddis-Regan A, Wassall R. . In: 24th International Association for Disability and Oral Health Congress. 2018, Dubai: Stephen Hancocks Ltd.
  • Wassall RR, Exley C, Stewart M, Carroll C. . In: IADR. 2016, Seoul, Korea.
  • Desai R, Taylor J, Wassall RR, McCracken G, Preshaw PM. . In: IADR General Session. 2016, Seoul, Korea.
  • Lieversley M, Wassall RR. . In: Third European Conference on Design4Health 2015. 2015.
  • Wassall RR, Kingston A, Jagger C, Collerton J, Bond J, Kirkwood T, Steele J. . In: 92 General Session & Exhibition of the IADR Africa/Middle East Regional Meeting. 2014, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Field J, Wassall R. . In: 3 Rivers Educational Conference. 2013, 缅北禁地.
  • Jaedicke KM, Wassall RR, Taylor JJ, Preshaw PM. Periodontal disease is associated with increased levels of GCF adiponectin. In: IADR. 2010.
  • Jaedicke KM, Wassall RR, Taylor JJ, Preshaw PM. Impact of diabetes on serum leptin concentrations in periodontitis patients. In: IADR. 2010.
  • Wassall RR, Preshaw PM. Evaluation of methods for eluting GCF cytokines from Periopaper samples. In: IADR. 2010.
  • Preshaw PM, Barskby HE, Fraser H, Taylor JJ, Weaver JJ, Taylor R, Wassall RR. Serum Cytokine Concentrations in Periodontal Patients with Type 1 Diabetes. . 2008.
  • Wassall RR, Fraser H, Taylor JJ, Taylor R, Preshaw PM, Weaver JU. Relationship between periodontal diagnosis and parameters of type-1 diabetes management. In: IADR. 2008.
  • Fraser H, Preshaw PM, Taylor R, Weaver JU, Wassall RR. . In: IADR 86th General Session. 2008, Toronto: International Association for Dental Research.

• Editorial

  • Wassall R. . British Dental Journal 2019, 227(1).