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About the Foundation

Erosive Toothwear (ET) represents a range of conditions where the shape and height of teeth can be lost over time, giving individuals a series of challenges with function, appearance and sensitivity to temperature change. It is not related to tooth decay (dental caries). ET can represent a major problem for both individuals and communities, but the evidence behind this condition, and treatment options for it, are often poorly understood. There are currently many barriers which prevent the knowledge we have from basic and clinical research translating into improved health. The aim of this initiative is, for Erosive Toothwear, to promote understanding of:

  • the condition
  • the underlying science,
  • the scale of the problem and
  • how best to prevent and, where appropriate, manage it

This will be accomplished by the dissemination of the collated evidence using a range of educational tools to facilitate knowledge transfer for patient and public benefit across the four domains of: Education, Dental Practice, Public Health and Research.

Our Team

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Dr Rupert Austin

Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Prosthodontics
King's College London

 

rupert.s.austin@kcl.ac.uk

Rupert's research focus is on the prevention of enamel erosive tooth wear, specifically using fluoride containing oral care products and enhanced diagnosis and treatment. He has published widely in the field of imaging and prevention of erosive tooth wear. He is a Consultant in Prosthodontics, treating Erosive Tooth Wear cases on referral at Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation trust and in Private referral practice in South-East England.

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Professor David Bartlett

Head of Prosthodontics and Graduate Training
Centre for Oral, Clinical and Translational Sciences
Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences
King's College London

david.bartlett@kcl.ac.uk

David’s research is clinically focused and includes prevalence studies, laboratory investigations and clinical techniques to measure erosive tooth wear in the prosthodontics field. He has a wide range of experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. Over the past five years he has developed teaching in prosthodontics to make it more relevant to modern general dental practice. He was also instrumental in bringing teaching in implants to undergraduates, but at a level that is consistent with the expectations of dental students. Over the past 20 years, Bartlett has conducted three large prevalence studies and collaborated internationally to publish the only systematic reviews in the literature. In 2009 he published data from the study of 1,010 18-30 year olds together with an assessment of risk. More recently a Pan European study of more than 3’500 participants established the risk factors in erosion.

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Professor Carolina Ganss

Professor in Department for Conservative and Preventive Dentistry
Justus-Liebig University Giessen
Germany

carolina.ganss@dentist.med.uni-giessen.de

Her research focuses on diagnostics, aetiology, prevention and therapy of non-caries-related dental hard tissue diseases as well as observational and intervention studies on oral hygiene behaviour. She is Past-President of the German Society for Preventive Dentistry (DGPZM) and the European Association for Caries Research (ORCA). She has given over a hundred lectures nationally and internationally and has published over a hundred papers and book chapters. She has been a guest editor in a book series and is now Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious scientific journal Caries Research. She has also been an organiser of various international workshops.

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Ester Hoekstra, M.Sc

Lecturer at the Zahnärztekammer Bremen and SRH Hochschule für Gesundheit, Dental Hygiene, both in Germany.

Ec.hoekstra@outlook.com

Ester is a dental hygienist who is originally from the Netherlands, but moved to Germany 20 years ago. Since 1998, she has worked as a preventive dental assistant and later as a dental hygienist in several dental practices. Since 2018 Ester is involved in the education for preventive dental assistants and dental hygienists as a lecturer. She is a international speaker and writes articles for her peers. Her Master of Science Degree in psychological medicine was achieved at the London Metropolitan University in 2022. A second Master of Science Degree in Oral Medicine is planned to be obtained in 2024. Ester has been on numerous Advisement Boards and is new in research.

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Doctor Olivia Kérourédan

Associate Professor, Department of Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics, University of Bordeaux, France

olivia.kerouredan@u-bordeaux.fr

Olivia Kérourédan, DDS, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the University School of Dentistry in Bordeaux and also the head of the Restorative Dentistry & Endodontics Department. She holds a Doctorate in Dental Medicine (Univ. Rennes, 2011), a Master in Biology (Univ. Paris, 2015) and a PhD in Cell Biology and Pathophysiology (Univ. Bordeaux, 2019). In addition to her clinical and teaching activities, she is a member of BioTis laboratory (Bioengineering of Tissues, UMR 1026, INSERM/Univ. Bordeaux) and her research work is mainly focused on bioprinting for bone tissue engineering. In 2023, she achieved a one-year research mobility at Kyoto University, within the Institute for Life and Medical Sciences. In addition to her advanced expertise in the field of erosive tooth wear and hyperesthesia, her clinical activity is also focused on rare bone diseases and related dental anomalies. Finally, thanks to close collaboration with the Rheumatology Department, she is involved in the management of oral/dental care of patients suffering from osteoporosis, systemic scleroderma and Gougerot Sjögren's syndrome.

Prof-Adrian-Lussi

Professor Adrian Lussi

Chairman
Department of Preventive, Restorative and Pediatric Dentistry
University of Bern

adrian.lussi@zmk.unibe.ch

Studies of Chemistry at the Swiss Federal University of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, master`s degree. Studies of Dental Medicine in Zurich and Bern, graduation from the University of Bern, Switzerland; 1998 professor at the University of Bern, 2006 – 2017 Head of the Department of Preventive, Restorative and Paediatric Dentistry, University of Bern, Switzerland; 2011 – 2015 Managing Director of the School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern; 2017 – 2019 Lecturer in Histology and Pathohistology of dental hard tissues, University of Bern; 2018 Guest Professor and lecturer in Histology and Pathohistology of dental hard tissues at the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg (Germany), (Guest Professor)

Over 500 publications. Most of them are listed in PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Lussi+a
Editor or Co-editor of 15 books in prevention and operative dentistry

Some awards
Cariology: IADR-Distinguished Scientist Award for Research in Dental Caries,
Yngve Ericsson Prize for Research in Cariology, ORCA-Prize for Caries Research.
Teacher of the year, University of Bern

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Ed Martin

Managing Director – StockdaleMartin

ed@stockdalemartin.co.uk

Ed has worked in the marketing of oral and consumer healthcare products for 30 years, both client and agency side. After working brand-side on a number of well-known oral care brands, in 2001 he co-founded expert marketing agency StockdaleMartin and now works supporting brands to communicate effectively with healthcare professionals and patients alike.

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Dr. Saoirse O’Toole

Clinical Lecturer
Centre for Clinical, Oral and Translational Research
Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences
King’s College London

saoirse.otoole@kcl.ac.uk

Dr. Saoirse O’Toole is a Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London in the Centre for Clinical, Oral and Translational Research. Her clinical area of interest is in tooth wear and dental sleep medicine. Her research focuses on identifying groups at high risk of disease progression and developing diagnostic tools for use in primary care. She has lectured nationally and internationally on erosive tooth wear with over 40 peer reviewed papers and two book chapters on tooth wear. She has an international patented device for the intraoral detection of gastric acids and has developed a freeware to detect change in sequential 3D medical scans.

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Professor Nigel Pitts

Director Dental Innovation and Impact
Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences,
King’s College London

nigel.pitts@kcl.ac.uk

Nigel Pitts FRSE BDS PhD FDS RCS (Eng) FDS RCS (Edin) FFGDP (UK) FFPH, came to King’s College London in January 2013 to set up the Dental Innovation and Translation Centre. At King’s, he is Director of Dental Innovation and Impact as well as Professor of Dental Health. Externally he is leader of the GCCM Global Collaboratory for Caries Management initiative and Chair of the ACFF Alliance for Cavity Free Future. He is an Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health to Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust. Nigel graduated in Dentistry from the University of London, moved to the University of Hong Kong to help set up a new Dental School in the 1980s, and the returned to the UK to take up the Directorship of the Dental Health Services Research Unit at the University of Dundee (where he also served as Dean and Director of the Centre for Clinical Innovations). He has a long history of researching in and with Dental Primary Care.

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Professor Dom Zero

Professor, Department of Cariology, Operative Dentistry and Dental Public Health
Indiana University

dzero@iu.edu

Domenick Zero, DDS, MS, holds the position of Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Cariology, Operative Dentistry and Dental Public Health at Indiana University School of Dentistry and is closely affiliated with the Oral Health Research Institute. After receiving his dental degree from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1975, Dr Zero completed a general dentistry residency at the Eastman Dental Center and then a three-year research fellowship leading to a master's degree from the University of Rochester in 1979. He has received numerous research grants from the NIH and private industry over his 40 year career. Dr Zero has lectured extensively as an invited speaker throughout the US and internationally and is well recognized for his expertise in the fields of Cariology and dental erosion, and in the conduct of clinical trials. He has published more than 165 scientific articles and book chapters. His current research interests include the evaluation of the clinical efficacy of topical fluorides in the prevention of dental caries and erosion, non-fluoride remineralization agents, new early caries diagnostic systems, caries-associated virulence properties of dental biofilms, and salivary diagnostics, and the use of biologics in the treatment of Sjögren’s Disease and Temporomandibular Disorders.