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Personal Profile:
Editorial Board Journal of Disability and Oral Health
Name: Dr Debbie Lewis
Present appointment: Senior Community Dentist, Dental Service, Dorset Healthcare University Foundation NHS Trust
Qualifications: BDS, MCCD RCS, M Phil, Dip in Dent Sed, Specialist in Special Care Dentistry.
Work contact details:
Email: debbie.lewis@dhuft.nhs.uk
Address: Canford Heath Dental Clinic, Culliford Crescent, Poole, Dorset BH179DW
Tel: 01202 699929
Fax: 01202 659751
Memberships / External Activities:
Past President BSDH
Past President BSG
Past secretary BSG
Past committee member BSDH
Committee member BSG
Oral health promotion group of BSG

Member
BDA
BSDH
BSG
DSTG
BASCD
Teaching Profile:
Undergraduate:
Clinical Assistant in Dept of Sedation and Special Care Dentistry Guys 1999-2001
Mentor for undergraduate Dental Therapists at Eastman Institute and University of Portsmouth 2008-2011
Postgraduate:
Regular teaching for the dental team in the area of Special Care Dentistry at meetings and conferences.
Mentor for SAAD.
Tutor for Distance Learning M Clin Dent in Prosthodontics at Kings College
Tutor for BUOLD, Special Care and Older Person’s Modules
Editorial Board JDOH and Community Dental Health

Research Supervision:
Project supervisor for M Clin Dent in Prosthodontics
Awards / Prizes:

Research Interests:

Oral health care for people needing special care.
Carer training in oral health.

Clinical Interests- Sedation, GA and Special Care Dentistry, Domiciliary Care

Selected Publications:

Book: A Clinical Guide to Special Care Dentistry. Fiske, Dougall and Lewis, 2009

Domiciliary Oral Healthcare. Lewis and Fiske. Dental Update 2011: 38: 231-244.

Ransford NJ, Manley MCG, Lewis DA et al. Intranasal/intravenous sedation for the dental care of adults with severe disabilities: a multicentre prospective audit. BDJ 2010; 208: 565-569.

Lewis and Gilmour. The Role of Joint Consultant Restorative and Special Care Clinics in the Community. JDOH 2004; 5: 51-6.

Selected Projects/Publications in Special Care Dentistry: list up to 4

Lewis and Fiske
British Society for Disability and Oral Health. ‘Guidelines for the Delivery of a Domiciliary Oral Healthcare Service’ 2009. www.bsdh.org.uk. Supplement to JDOH 2009;10:3.

Janet Griffiths and Debbie Lewis
Guidelines for the Oral Care of Patients who are Dependent, Dysphagic or Critically ill. JDOH 2002; 3: 30-3.

Shaw, Kumar, Duggal, Fiske, Lewis, Kinsella, Nisbett Clinical Guidelines. The Oral Management of Oncology Patients Requiring Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy, or Bone Marrow Transplantation.
The Dental Faculty of RCS Eng 1999. J D OH 2001: 2: 3-14

Ransford NJ, Manley MCG, Lewis DA et al. Retrospective audit of the efficacy and safety of the combined intranasal/intravenous midazolam sedation technique for the dental treatment of adults with learning disability. BDJ 2008;205, E3.
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