Lecturer Details: Sedation, venipuncture and cannulation update

Lecturer nameMr Chris Bell BDS MSc FDS RCS(Eng)
Lecturer profileOral & Maxillofacial training 1981 – 87
Founding Member of Dental Sedation Teachers Group
Clinical Lead for Oral Surgery Bristol Dental Hospital 1993-2002
Chair NHS Southwest Oral Surgery Managed Clinical Network 2017 – present.
Co Clinical Director Bristol Dental School 2022 to present


Short resume of career to date:
Qualified Dec 1980
Career in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery from 1980 to present
Chair Southwest Oral Surgery MCN since 2017
6 years as Principle of an NHS Dental Practice 1987 to 1993

Experience relevant to the topic:
Founding member of the Dental Sedation Teachers Group.
Course Tutor for the BUOLD Anxiety and Control & Sedation Element from 1994 to 2016




Lecturer nameTimothy Harris BDS MFDS (RCS) MSc FHEA
Lecturer profileTim Harris is a dentist and Director Circus Dental, Bath and a Clinical Teacher Dental implantology (University of Bristol). Tim has been providing sedation to patients and has been teaching and mentoring for sedation techniques
for many years.

Short Resume of Career to date:
- BDS Bristol 2002
- Vocational Training, Bristol 2002-2003
- Associate Dental Surgeon, New Zealand 2006-2007
- Senior House Officer / Staff Grade, South West Deanery 2003-2008
- DwSi Oral Surgery Somerset PCT 2008-2018
- Clinical teacher Oral Surgery University of Bristol 2008- 2023
- Associate dentist – Dental Implant Clinic, Bath 2009-2019
- Dentist and Director. Circus Dental 2019 to date

- Experience relevant to the topic:
- Experience in Primary and Secondary care since 2009 training with SAAD.
- SAAD member
- Sedation Mentor
- Sedation update course provision 2015 onwards.