Lecturer Details: Special Care Dentistry MCN Study Day: Patient engagement and communication

Lecturer nameSarah Addington-Hall BDS 2009, DipSCD RCSEd 2021
Lecturer profileQualifications:
BDS 2009
DipSCD RCSEd 2021

Current Post:
Specialist Trainee in Special Care Dentistry in Dorset

Short resume of career to date:
DF1 in CDS in Derbyshire
DF2 in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Leeds General Infirmary/Leeds Dental Hospital.
Started as a Dental Officer in Exeter, Devon in 2011 progressing to Senior Dental Officer in June 2016.
Moved to the CDS in Somerset just prior to the pandemic before starting as a ST1 in Special Care Dentistry in Dorset, September 2021.


Lecturer nameIngrid Bowden
Lecturer profileClinical Mouth Care Training Lead - Torbay/South Devon, Cornwall & IOS
NHS Health Education England, South West Mouth Care Matters
Lecturer nameDr Camilla Boynton MA (Hons), BDS Lond, MJDF RCS Eng, MSc, MSCD RCS E
Lecturer profileConsultant in Special Care Dentistry and Medical/Governance Lead, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Training Programme Director in Special Care Dentistry for the South.
Camilla graduated as a dentist from King’s College London in 2009 following a career change from publishing. Initially working in Dorset, she completed her Specialist training in Special Care Dentistry in 2016, which included an MSc in Special Care Dentistry with sedation. Camilla now works as a Consultant and Departmental/Governance Lead for the Community Dental Service at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Exeter and North Devon. Camilla is also Training Programme Director for Special Care Dentistry in the South, an Examiner for the MFDS Diploma and the 2026 President of the British Society of Gerodontology.
For 15 years, Camilla has been delivering conscious sedation for patients with complex needs. She is STAC approved and provides training for postgraduate dentists at all stages of their careers, including those undertaking the PG Cert from Portsmouth University
Lecturer nameDr Louise Farbus
Lecturer profileLou came to the NHS as the Public and Patient Engagement lead for Specialised Commissioning in 2008 having previously worked for the (then) Peninsula Medical School and the University of Plymouth as a researcher and lecturer in research methods and psychology. She has published a number of peer-reviewed articles on her research; raised £450,000 to create the Upstream Healthy Living Centre to conduct the first British study on the impact of social prescribing, and raised a further £1.2 million to build a Surestart children’s centre in the only deprived neighbourhood that didn’t have one in the city where she lives.
Since joining the NHS she has supported over 100 complex and often controversial service changes always crossing multiple geographical and sometimes challenging professional boundaries and recently returned from a two year secondment to Cornwall and Isles of Scilly STP where she supported the coproduction of seven bespoke models of integrated health and social care.
Lecturer nameDr Lorna Hollingsworth BDS, LDSRCS(Eng), DSCDRCS(Eng), PG CERT(sedation),
Lecturer profileQualifications:
BDS, LDSRCS(Eng), DSCDRCS(Eng),
PG CERT(sedation), MSc

Current Post:
Consultant in Special Care Dentistry
Clinical Director

Lorna is a Consultant in Special Care Dentistry working for Somerset Foundation NHS Trust. After qualifying from the University of Birmingham in 1992 Lorna experienced life as a Vocational Trainee in a busy Wolverhampton NHS practice before moving to a career in the Community Dental Services. Lorna has practised in Dorset since 2014. Alongside her clinical expertise Lorna has extensive experience of managerial and leadership roles and is the Clinical Director for Somerset FT primary care Dental Services providing care across Somerset and Dorset.
Lorna has been awarded Lifetime Membership of the British Society for Disability and Oral Health having held various Committee roles including the Presidency . Lorna is also the Vice Chair for Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the Diploma of Special care Dentistry and The Chair of the Special Care Dentistry Managed Clinical network for the South West .
On a warm day, when not at work you may see Lorna paddle boarding off the South Coast.
Lecturer nameDr Louise Hopper BDS (Bristol), PhD (Manchester)
Lecturer profileQualifications:
BDS (Bristol), MFDS RCS (Eng), PhD (Manchester)

Current Post:
Specialist in Special Care Dentistry, Plymouth Community Dental Services

Short Resume of Career to Date:
Louise has worked within the salaried dental service and hospital dental service providing dental care for adults and children with additional needs in London, Greater Manchester, Cornwall and Plymouth. She has also taught student dentists and therapists/hygienists and undertaken primary care dental research.

Experience Relevant to the topic:
Working as a specialist in SCD, Louise sees many young people and adults with cognitive impairments where assessment of capacity is a part of their dental examination, and need for reasonable adjustments alongside best interest meetings forms a part of their dental consent process. She support local general dental practitioners with assessing capacity and negotiating the legal process of consent for people who have fluctuating capacity or lack capacity. Louise also works with her local Adult Cardiology Department providing pre-cardiac surgery checks for people without a dentist and dental treatment for people with complex adult congenital heart disease.


Lecturer nameSarah McFarlane
Lecturer profileDental network Manager NHS England South West