• Honorary consultant Kings College Hospital Denmark Hill London SE9 5RT
• Emeritus Chair Oral Surgery Kings College London

Education Tara Renton (Specialist in Oral Surgery) is a dentist with a particular interest in trigeminal nerve injuries and pain. She completed her dentistry at Guys (1984), Oral and Maxillofacial surgical training in Melbourne (1991), undertook a PhD in Trigeminal Nerve injury at KCL (1999-2003) and senior lectureship at QMUL (2003-6). Over the past 20 years at KCL Tara has developed;

Education programmes

• UG teaching of dental students modernising the Oral Surgical teaching with minimal access approach and modern LA techniques.
• Supervised/supervising 14 PhDs

Research

• In collaboration with Imperial College, UCL, Oxford University, Centre neuroscience imaging centre IOPPN, Wolfson Institute Tara has established an international leading programme of trigeminal nerve injury and orofacial pain research publishing over 290 peer reviewed articles and grants from MRC, Grunenthal, Pfizer, Brit Pain Society.

Service

• Tara leads the Kings Health Partners Orofacial Pain Service seeing patients involving oral surgery and medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, ENT, pain management, clinical psychology and liaison psychiatry. Tara has set up two patient facing websites first a patient lead initiative resulted in the development of the Trigeminalnerve.org.uk a website advising both patients and clinicians in preventing and managing iatrogenic nerve injury in relation to dentistry and a website for patients with chronic trigeminal pain (www.orofacialpain.org.uk). Tara is currently developing an online orofacial pain diagnostic tool using AI in Beta phase (Faceyourpain.org).

Policy & awards

• Tara Led the patient safety for dentistry Chair for tool kit in prevention wrong site surgery in dentistry
• Chair M3M parameter of care guidance for FDS RCS Third molar guidelines published 2020 (https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/denta...)
• Member of the International classification of orofacial pain guideline group published Jan 2020 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...)
• Awarded Honorary AAOMS fellowship 2017
• Noel Martin visiting Chair Sydney University 2018-
• Steve Graff Radford Award American Headache Society 2020
• Visiting Chair in Oral Surgery Otago University 2022

Tara is on the Dental Update Editorial Board, she has co-edited the BDA clinical manuals for Oral Surgery Books I and II and editor for the BDA Orofacial Pain for the dental team book. Tara was an elected member of the RCS England FDS Board RCS Eng 2010-2019, she is Chair of the Oral Surgery SAC. She is an invited member National Advisory Board for human factors in dentistry and she is a Past President of the British Association Oral Surgery.

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