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Rebecca Wassall

0000-0001-6851-5666

Senior Clinical Lecturer / Honorary Consultant in Special Care Dentistry (Health sciences; Design; Digital health)

I am a clinical academic in Special Care Dentistry, passionate about enhancing dental care systems for older patients with complex health and care needs so they can experience effective and co-ordinated oral care that is meaningful to them. My research aims to better understand the needs of people receiving and delivering dental care and to develop tools, processes and services fit for the internet era that will ultimately help NHS community dentists deliver better care for their patients.

Publications

  • Exploring dental treatment decision‐making experiences of people living with dementia and family carers
  • Putting guidelines into practice: Using co‐design to develop a complex intervention based on NG48 to enable care staff to provide daily oral care to older people living in care homes
  • Improving the oral health of older people in care homes (TOPIC): a protocol for a feasibility study
  • Strategies to prevent oral disease in dependent older people
  • The need for further oral health research surrounding the provision of dental treatment for people with drug dependency
  • Establishing an empirical conceptual model of oral health in dependent adults: Systematic review
  • Care pathways and provision in bariatric dental care: an exploration of patients' and dentists' experiences in the North East of England
  • Promoting co-production in the generation and use of research evidence to improve service provision in special care dentistry
  • Orofacial pain assessment and management for patients with dementia: A meta-ethnography
  • Measurement properties, interpretability and feasibility of instruments measuring oral health and orofacial pain in dependent adults: a systematic review
  • Clinical and technical considerations in the analysis of gingival crevicular fluid
  • Treatment of periodontitis reduces systemic inflammation in type 2 diabetes
  • Enhancing shared and surrogate decision making for people living with dementia: A systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions
  • Embracing complexity
  • Standardized screening for periodontitis as an integral part of multidisciplinary management of adults with type 2 diabetes: An observational cross-sectional study of cohorts in the USA and UK
  • Impact of diabetes and periodontal status on life quality
  • Development of a core outcome set for oral health services research involving dependent older adults (DECADE): A study protocol
  • Impact of periodontal status on oral health-related quality of life in patients with and without type 2 diabetes
  • Strategies to prevent oral disease in dependent older people
  • Dentists’ Approaches to Treatment Decision-Making for People with Dementia: A Qualitative Study
  • A Theoretically Informed Process Evaluation in Parallel to a Feasibility Study of a Complex Oral Health Intervention Using NICE Guidelines in a Care Home Setting

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