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Qualifications

• BDS(Hons) 2005
• MFDS RCSEd 2007
• PG Cert Clin Implant Dent (Ncl) 2014
• NTA 2019
• FHEA 2019
• MDTFEd 2020
• PG Cert ASAP 2022

Prizes/Awards

• Pear's Exhibition (Exam performance pre-clinical)
• JN Proctor Prize (Clinical skills)
• Pharmacology Prize
• Sopwith Prize (Clinical restorative dentistry)
• BDA Meritorious Dental Student Award (Final examination performance)
• 1969 Prize (Performance throughout dental school)
• Erasmus scholarship
• Helen Tonge Award 2019

Current positions

• Clinical fellow in restorative dentistry
• Small commitment to general practice
• Vice chairman North East Private Dentists
• External postgraduate lecturer
• Invited reviewer for Journal of Dental Research, Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology and British Dental Journal
• Examiner Implant Diploma Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh

Previous positions

• General Professional Trainee 2005-2007
• Honorary Clinical Lecturer (Ncl) 2007-2009
• General Practice 2005- (UK and Australia)
• Chairman North East Private Dentists 2013-2018

Membership

• General Dental Council
• Dental Protection
• Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)
• International Team for Implantology
• International Association of Dental Research
• Association for Dental Education in Europe
• Dentinal Tubules
• North East Private Dentists
• Kois Graduate

Undergraduate teaching/positions

• Course lead for Clinical Skills: Advanced Restorations
• Restorative dentistry clinical and didactic programmes teaching
• Key Clinical Skills; Endodontic technique; Restorative Management of Tooth Loss 
• BDS/ODHS BSc examiner
• BDS admissions panel
• Careers panel

Postgraduate teaching/positions

• Deputy Degree Programme Director Diploma in Clinical Implant Dentistry
• Implant diploma clinical and didactic programmes teaching, admissions panel, examiner
• Restorative MClinDent examiner
• Invited external lecturer for HENE, HESW, BDA, FGDP, NEPD, NEOS, Kois Center, SRRDG

Research work:

Currently working towards a PhD entitled, 'Amalgam phase out; what next for posterior teeth? Costs and benefits of the alternative direct restorative materials'.

Clinician opinions/technique use in restorative dentistry/vital pulp therapies

Patient/public preferences (in restorative dentistry) using discrete choice experiments

Economic evaluations in dentistry

Educational research on use of videos and blended learning in clinical skills training

Clinical restorative outcome measurement

Influence of sectional matrix and composite restorative techniques on clinical outcomes

Material use in vital pulp therapies

National/International presentations:

Invited presenter Kois Center Seattle 2016

Invited presenter American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research 2022

Invited presenter British Dental Conference 2022

• Articles

  • Bailey O. Sub-gingival posterior composites: How confident are you. BDJ In Practice 2022, 35, 28-29.
  • Bailey O, Stone S, Ternent L, Vernazza CR. Public valuation of direct restorations: a discrete choice experiment. Journal of Dental Research 2022, (ePub ahead of Print).
  • Bailey O, McGuirk C, O'Connor C. Matrix transfer techniques for direct paste composite resins. British Dental Journal 2022, 233, 91-98.
  • Bailey O, Shand B, Ellis I. Class II composite technique teaching: a randomised controlled crossover laboratory-based trial involving a novel ringless sectional matrix technique. European Journal of Dental Education 2022, (ePub ahead of Print).
  • Bailey O, Vernazza C, Stone S, Ternent L, Roche A-G, Lynch C. Amalgam Phase-Down Part 2: UK-Based Knowledge, Opinions, and Confidence in the Alternatives. JDR Clinical & Translational Research 2022, 7(1), 50-60.
  • Bailey O, Vernazza CR, Stone S, Ternent L, Roche A-G, Lynch C. Amalgam Phase-Down Part 1: UK-Based Posterior Restorative Material and Technique Use. JDR Clinical & Translational Research 2022, 7(1), 41-49.
  • Edwards D, Stone S, Bailey O, Duncan H. The management of deep caries in UK primary care: a nationwide questionnaire-based study. International Endodontic Journal 2021, 54(10), 1804-1818.
  • Bailey O. Sectional matrix solutions: the distorted truth. British Dental Journal 2021, 231(9), 547-555.
  • Edwards D, Stone S, Bailey O, Tomson P. Preserving pulp vitality: part two - vital pulp therapies. British Dental Journal 2021, 230(3), 148-155.
  • Edwards D, Stone S, Bailey O, Tomson P. Preserving pulp vitality: part one - strategies for managing deep caries in permanent teeth. British Dental Journal 2021, 230(2), 77-82.
  • Edwards D, Bailey O, Stone S, Duncan H. How is carious pulp exposure and symptomatic irreversible pulpitis managed in UK primary dental care?. International Endodontic Journal 2021, (ePub ahead of Print).
  • Bailey OS. Cracked tooth syndrome management part 2: Integrating the old with the new. Dental Update 2020, 47(7), 570-582.
  • Bailey OS, Whitworth JM. Cracked tooth syndrome diagnosis part 1: Integrating the old with the new. Dental Update 2020, 47(6), 494-499.
  • Bailey O, O'Connor C. Papilla management in sub-gingival, interproximal, direct composite restoration: A key step to success. BDJ 2019, 226(12), 933-937.

• Book Chapter

  • Bailey O, Stone S. Conservative Dentistry. In: McCracken G, ed. Master Dentistry : Restorative Dentistry, Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2021, pp.86-114.