Lecturer Details: The practical treatment of toothwear a hands-on course

Lecturer nameProfessor Trevor Burke (See profile)
Lecturer profileDDS, MSc, MDS, MGDS, FDS RCS (Edin), FDS RCS (Eng.), FFGDP(UK), FADM

Trevor Burke graduated from Queens University in Belfast. He worked in general dental practice in Manchester from 1974 to 1996, whilst also working in the Unit of Restorative Dentistry at the University of Manchester.

He has been Professor of Primary Dental Care at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Consultant in Restorative Dentistry there since 2000.
He has authored or co-authored 290 papers in peer-reviewed journals and been awarded over 80 research grants.

His main research interests include properties and applications of tooth-colored restorative materials, and clinical evaluation of the performance of materials in general dental practice. In 1993 he established the PREP (Product Research and Evaluation by Practitioners) Panel, a group of dentists who carry out research in their practices. Trevor co-ordinates this group, which has now completed over 70 evaluations of materials and techniques, with the group having grown to 30 members across the UK.

He is also an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, was Chair of the Board of Board of Dental Protection until November 2014 and is the Editorial Director of Dental Update.

Trevor’s time at the University is mainly spent being Director of the Masters course in Advanced General Dental Practice, this having been established 14 years ago as a campus-based (“live”) course , and which is now a Distance course for dentists anywhere in the UK and the world.