Job title: Consultant in Special Care Dentistry

Department: Special Care Dentistry

Telephone number: 01257 245664

Primary dental qualification: BDS NUI

Other qualifications: MDFS RCPSGlas, DSCD RCSEng, M Spec Care Dent RCPSGlas

Year of registration: 2010

GDC number: 193251

Career history: I qualified from Cork University Dental School and Hospital in 2010. Following graduation, I undertook vocational training on the West Coast of Scotland.  I spent my foundation training in Glasgow, split between Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Paediatric Dentistry and Special Care Dentistry.  I then spent 6 months as a Senior House Officer in Special Care Dentistry and Oral Surgery in Dundee Dental Hospital before I moved to the North West to take up my specialist training post.  I qualified as a Specialist in Special Care Dentistry in 2016 and worked for Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust before joining Lancashire Teaching Hospitals as a consultant in March 2017.

Specialist interests: Comprehensive dental care under general anaesthetic for patients with challenging behaviour

Clinics: Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble District General Hospital

Language spoken: English