Staff Profile
Oliver Bailey
Clinical Fellow
Researchgate profile
Google Scholar profile
Qualifications
- BDS(Hons) 2005
- MFDS RCSEd 2007
- PG Cert Clin Implant Dent (Ncl) 2014
- NTA 2019
- FHEA 2019
- MDTFEd 2020
- PG Cert ASAP 2022
- PhD 2025
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
- Vice chairman North East Private Dentists
- External postgraduate lecturer
- Invited reviewer for Journal of Dental Research, Journal of Dentistry, 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 2005-2020 (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/BSc examiner
- BDS/BSc admissions panel
- Careers panel
Postgraduate teaching/positions
- Previous Deputy Degree Programme Director Diploma in Clinical Implant Dentistry
- MClinDent clinical teacher, examiner and research supervisor
- MRes examiner
- Invited external lecturer for HENE, HESW, HEIW, BDA, FGDP, NEPD, NEOS, Kois Center, SRRDG
Research work:
Class II composite techniques: expert international consensus
Completed a PhD titled, 'Amalgam phase out; what next for dentistry? Costs and benefits of the alternative direct restorations'.
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 clinical skills training
Use of haptics in education
Clinical restorative outcome measurement
Influence of sectional matrix and composite restorative techniques on clinical outcomes
Material use in vital pulp therapies
Tooth preparation for indirect restorations
UK dental workforce training and planning
National/International presentations:
Invited presenter:
CONSEURO 2025 Cordoba, Spain
Association of Dental Education in Europe (ADEE) Annual Meeting, Liverpool 2023
Organisation for Caries Research (ORCA) meets European Confederation of Conservative Dentistry (EFCD) 70th Congress, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands 2023
British Dental Conference, Birmingham 2022
American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research, Atlanta, USA 2022
Kois Center, Seattle, USA 2016
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Articles
- Pandya K, Wheatley J, Bailey O, Taylor G, Geddis-Regan A, Edwards D. Exploring deep caries management and barriers to the use of vital pulp treatments by primary care dental practitioners. International Endodontic Journal 2024, 57(10), 1453-1464.
- 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 2023, 27(4), 963-973.
- 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, 101(13), 1572-1579.
- Bailey O, McGuirk C, O'Connor C. Matrix transfer techniques for direct paste composite resins. British Dental Journal 2022, 233, 91-98.
- 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, 54(12), 2256-2275.
- 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.
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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.