Prof Tara Renton, Project Director
Tara, Specialist in Oral Surgery, completed dentistry Guys (1984), OMFS Melbourne University (1991) and a neuroscience PhD at KCL (2003).
Tara established multi collaborative and disciplinary research teams with international repute in third molar surgery, patient safety, trigeminal nerve injury and orofacial pain evidenced by over 250 peer reviewed articles. She has established two patient facing websites www.trigeminalnerve.org.uk and www.orofacialpain.org.uk.
Fréderic Van der Cruyssen
Fréderic Van der Cruyssen is a PhD candidate at OMFS-IMPATH research group under promotorship of Prof. dr. Constantinus Politis, Prof. dr. Reinhilde Jacobs and Prof. dr. Tara Renton (Oral Surgery, King’s College, Londen, UK). He received his medical degree from the Catholic University of Leuven in June 2017 with a master’s thesis on trigeminal nerve physiology and his dental degree at the same university in 2020.
Currently he is an oral and maxillofacial resident at the University Hospitals Leuven. His research is focused on traumatic trigeminal nerve injuries.
Both Tara and Frederic have launched and are trialling an orofacial pain Webapp Faceyourpain.org
Other Centres
Professor Simon Atkins
Consultant Oral Surgeon
Charles Clifford Dental Hospital
Wellesley Road
Sheffield
S10 2SZ
Patient Services Team 0114 27 12400 (For concerns and compliments)
Professor Justin Durham
Director, Health Innovation neighbourhood.
Professor of Orofacial pain
Hon Consultant Oral Surgeon
School of Dental Sciences
Population Health Sciences Institute
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
Email: justin.durham@ncl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)191 2087828 (Direct dial)
Address: School of Dental Sciences, Newcastle University, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4BW, UK
John Zuniga
Professor Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, Texas 75390 USA
General Inquiries 214-648-3111
Michael Miloro, DMD, MD, FACS
Professor and Head
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
University of Illinois, College of Dentistry
801 S. Paulina St, Rm 110 (MC 835) USA
Chicago, IL 60612-7211
312.996.1052
