缅北禁地

Roles and responsibilities

Lecturer/Honorary Clinical Lecturer

Deputy Director of BSc (Hons) Dental Therapy

Director of Stages 1-3 BSc (Hons) Dental Therapy

BSc Stage 1 Chair of Board of Examiners

NIHR NENC Oral & Dental Speciality Group Lead

缅北禁地 BRC PPIE Lead for Oral & Dental

Associate Editor for International Journal of Dental Hygiene

Editorial board member for Dental Health (journal of BSDHT)

Trustee of Oral & Dental Research Trust

Qualifications

FHEA 2024

Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2019

Masters in Clinical Research 2012

Advanced Diploma in Further Education and Training 2004

Diploma in Dental Hygiene 1994

Research Interest

I am interested in the development and implementation of innovative and targeted interventions to improve oral and dental health and reduce health inequalities.

My research has involved me working in the context of diabetes and periodontitis; periodontitis and atrial fibrillation; head and neck cancer screening in community pharmacy services; developing knowledge of robust biomarkers to evaluate the safety of oral hygiene products; and improving access to NHS dental Health Services for adults with learning disabilities.

As an independent researcher I have been awarded research funding totalling £976,010 that includes two pump-priming awards from Oral & Dental Research Trust; two personal awards from NIHR; an award from NIHR North East North Cumbria Applied Research Collaboration (Prevention, Early Intervention & Behaviour Change theme), and the current NIHR Health & Care Services Delivery Research grant called SCOPE https//blogs.ncl.ac.uk/scope/

I have experience of working on over 30 oral and dental clinical trials.

I have presented in the UK and internationally.

I am also interested in:

1. Developing the roles of dental care professionals.
2. Inter-professional communication between medical and dental teams.

I am interested in the continued development of the BSc (Hons) in Dental Therapy Programme, which started in 2015 with an initial cohort of 8.

We now have 20 places and I am particularly interested in embedding a culture of team working, to improve health outcomes of patients and integrate collaborative practice within our dental surgeon and dental therapy undergraduates.

I am also interested in training our future dental therapists and dentists to be able to adapt their practice to make dentistry accessible for everyone. I have co-produced an educational intervention to raise awareness of barriers to care and improve undergraduate self-efficacy with regard to communicating with adults with learning disabilities in an NHS setting. The idea for this project came from a review of special care dentistry that was commissioned as part of the NHS Five Year Forward View that included Special Care Dentistry; and the General Dental Council recommended that undergraduates should be better prepared to manage special needs patients in their 2020 Preparedness to Practice executive summary. Further more, research conducted in 2019 with our final year dental students showed varying levels of preparedness and self-efficacy in meeting the needs of patients with disabilities. The project has been produced in collaboration with a local charity called The Lawnmowers, ran for and by adults with learning disabilities. The education involves a film and interactive workshop, using a concept called forum theatre. The project was piloted last year and evaluation data was very positive: “…this (workshop) is really important”; “…I know what I can do now to improve someone’s quality of life”; “…before the workshop I assumed I would need to refer a patient with a learning disability, but now I have more confidence to manage their care”; “…this workshop should be mandatory as it makes you reflect on the responsibility you have and how you can really help people”. It has now been incorporated into the curriculum in our Human Diseases course and will be delivered to our undergraduates in the second term of the first year of their clinical practice.

• Articles

  • Holliday R, Wilson N, Ryan V, Butcher C, Homer T, Watts P, Kareithi D, Blaylock P, Ternent L, Finch R, Bissett S, Todd A, Hancock H, Ellwood F, Conway D, Jakubovics N, Kist R, Holmes R, Bauld L, Preshaw P. . Trials 2025, 26, 261.
  • Bissett SM, Preshaw PM, Presseau J, Rapley T. . International Journal of Dental Hygiene 2024, epub ahead of print.
  • Bissett SM, Gulakova P, Unbereit K, Seymour RA, Preshaw PM. . International Journal of Dental Hygiene 2024, epub ahead of print.
  • Khudhur A, Dowson C, Bissett SM, van de Merwe R, Taylor JJ, Preshaw PM, Jaedicke KM. . International Journal of Dental Hygiene 2024, epub ahead of print.
  • Sturrock A, Bissett SM, Carrozzo M, Lish R, Howe D, Mountain S, Nugent M, O'Hara J, Preshaw PM, Todd A, Wilkes S. . BMJ open 2023, 13(3), e068607.
  • Bissett SM, Sturrock A, Carrozzo M, Lish R, Howe D, Mountain S, Nugent M, O'Hara J, Todd A, Wilkes S, Preshaw PM. . Health Expectations 2023, 26(5), 2089-2097.
  • Umeizudike KA, Lahteenmaki H, Raisanen IT, Taylor JJ, Preshaw PM, Bissett SM, Tervahartiala T, Nwhator SO, Parnanen P, Sorsa T. . Journal of Periodontal Research 2022, 57(3), 558-567.
  • Preshaw PM, Ide M, Bissett SM, Holliday R, Lansdowne N, Pickering K, Taylor JA, Levonian AM, Pleasance C, Guarnelli ME, Simonelli A, Fabbri C, Farina R, Panagakos FS, Trombelli L. . Journal of Clinical Periodontology 2021, 48(8), 1093-1102.
  • Lira-Junior R, Bissett SM, Preshaw PM, Taylor JJ, Bostrom EA. . Journal of Clinical Periodontology 2021, 48(11), 1430-1440.
  • Desai R, Khobaragade B, McCracken G, Wassall R, Taylor JJ, Bissett SM, Pumerantz AS, Preshaw PM. . BDJ Open 2021, 7(1), 9.
  • Bissett SM, Rapley T, Preshaw PM, Presseau J. . BMJ Open 2020, 10, e032369.
  • 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.
  • Pickering K, Bissett SM, Holliday R, Vernazza C, Preshaw PM. . BDJ Open 2020, 6, 20.
  • Bissett SM, Preshaw PM, Presseau J, Rapley T. . Primary Care Diabetes 2020, 14(2), 126-132.
  • Bissett SM, Presseau J, Rapley T, Preshaw PM. . British Dental Journal 2019, 226, 131-137.
  • Preshaw PM, Bissett SM. . British Dental Journal 2019, 227, 577-584.
  • Jaedicke KM, Bissett SM, Finch T, Thornton J, Preshaw PM. . International Journal of Dental Hygiene 2019, 17(1), 55-63.
  • Taylor JJ, Jaedicke KJ, vandeMerwe RC, Bissett SM, Landsdowne N, Whall KM, Pickering K, Thornton V, Lawson V, Yatsuda H, Kogai T, Shah D, Athey D, Preshaw PM. . Scientific Reports 2019, 9, 11034.
  • 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.
  • Breckons M, Bissett S, Exley C, Araujo-Soares V, Durham J. . Journal of Dental Research Clinical and Translational Research 2017, 2(1), 48-57.
  • Preshaw PM, Bissett SM. . Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America 2013, 42(4), 849-867.
  • Bissett SM, Stone KM, Rapley T, Preshaw PM. . BMJ Open 2013, 3(2), e002192.