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Dr Edmund Bailey, BDS (hons) MFDS RCS (Ed) MPhil MOral Surg RCS (Ed) PGCert, FHEA FDS RCS (Ed).

Edmund

Clinical Reader/Honorary Consultant in Oral Surgery

Email: e.bailey@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7882 3858
Room Number: Office 9, Floor 4, Institute of Dentistry

Profile

Edmund is a Reader and Honorary Consultant in Oral Surgery at Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust.

After graduating from the University of Liverpool in 2007, he completed his clinical specialist training in the north west of England. Whilst at Manchester, he completed his MPhil on the subject of post-operative pain management, working closely with the Cochrane Oral Health Group. In 2014, he received an NIHR grant to work on Patient Safety in Primary Care Dentistry.

Edmund has over 35 peer reviewed publications in several journals on the topics of Pain Management, Evidence Based Surgery and Patient Safety. In 2022, he was the PI on the industry sponsored Metapain analgesic trial.

He developed and launched the DClinDent in Oral Surgery in 2020, and he continues in his role as Programme Director for this 3-year clinical and academic programme. He has co-authored a textbook for undergraduate dental students and contributed chapters to the Oxford Handbook of Management for Hospital Dentistry.

He was an elected Council member of the British Association of Oral Surgeons from 2017-2023, and he contributes to Project Sphere, an initiative on patient safety in dentistry led by the Office of the Chief Dental Officer for England.

Research

Research Interests:

Patient Safety

Evidence based healthcare 

Publications

Textbooks:

  • Sadler A, Jones J. Bailey E. Core Oral Surgery for Dental Students. United Kingdom (2nd edition): Sorejaw, 2024.
  • Contributed chapters on Patient Safety: Gibson C, Mubeen S. Oxford Professional Practice: Handbook of Management for Hospital Dentistry. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Peer reviewed publications:

  • Bailey E, Dungarwalla M. Patient safety in dentistry - a decade in the making. British Dental Journal. 2025 May; 238, 814–821.
  • Reed S, Chani N, Bailey E, Harrison, S, Chani A. eP063 Restrospective service evaluation of patients experiencing complications following coronectomy treatment. British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, 2025-12, Vol.63 (10), p.e200-e201
  • Forrest M, Grossman S, Seoudi N, Bailey E, Bhandari R, Cheng L, Jones J, Killick Z, Dungarwalla M. A single centre service evaluation of 53 MRONJ cases. Advances in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Volume 19, 2025, 100557,
  • De Múgica AD, Bailey E, Loughlin A. Scleroderma: oral, maxillofacial and radiographic manifestations for dental practitioners. British Dental Journal. 2024 Jun 14;236(11):881-6
  • Al-Raisi S, Shah D, Bailey E. Analysis of outcomes and complications of 187 coronectomies. Advances in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 2022 Jul 1;7:100292.
  • Chohan P, Renton T, Wong J, Bailey E. Patient safety in dentistry-the bigger picture. British Dental Journal. 2022 Apr; 232(7): 460-9.
  • Bailey, E. Wrong-sided?. British Dental Journal. 2021;230,387
  • Dungarwalla, M., Bailey, E. Dentistry and aviation engineering - behind the scenes at operations in a UK-based airline. British Dental Journal. 2021; 230, 835–840.
  • Mistaken Identity. Surgeons' News. RCS Edinburgh, June 2021; 52-54.
  • Bailey E, Dungarwalla M. Developing a Patient Safety Culture in Primary Dental Care. Primary Dental Journal. 2021; 10(1):89-95.
  • Dargue, A., Fyfe, E., French, K., Ali, K., Bailey E., Bell, A., Bolt, R., Bulsara, Y., Carey, J., Emanuel, C., Green, R., Khawaja, N., Kushnerev, E., Patel, N., Shepherd, S., Smart, B., Smyth, J., Taylor, K. and Varma Datla, K. The impact of wrong‐site surgery on dental undergraduate teaching: a survey of UK dental schools. European Journal of Dental Education, 2021; Nov; 25(4): 670-678
  • Gormley, M. Al, S. French K. Wilson G. Stagnell S. and Bailey E. ‘Where are they now’? A survey of former oral surgery trainees. Oral Surgery, 2021; 14: 29-35.
  • Bailey E, Kashbour W, Shah N, Worthington HV, Renton TF, Coulthard P. Surgical techniques for the removal of mandibular wisdom teeth. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020, Issue 7.
  • Samani P, Dungarwalla M, Bailey E. #Wisdomteeth: an analysis of 100 social media posts and a survey on patient perception. British Dental Journal, 2020. 228: 711-716.
  • Dungarwalla M, Bailey E. Consent in Oral Surgery; a Guide for Clinicians. Dental Update, 2020. 47: 92-102
  • Grossman S, Dungarwalla M, Bailey E. Patient-reported experience and outcome measures in oral surgery: a dental hospital experience. British Dental Journal, 2020. 228(2): 70-74.
  • Palmer J.C, Blanchard J.R, Jones J, Bailey, E. Attitudes of dental undergraduate students towards patient safety in a UK dental school. European Journal of Dental Education, 2019. 23(2): 127-134.
  • Bailey E. Prevention and Management of Post-Operative Pain in Oral Surgery. Primary Dental Journal, 2018; 7(3): 57-63.
  • Bailey E. Expert view: Articaine: friend or foe? British Dental Journal, 2017; 223 (7): 494.
  • Naqvi A, Joshi S, Bailey E. An unusual case of disappearing bone disease in the mandible and literature review. Journal of Surgical Case Reports, 2017; 2, 1-2.
  • Tanna N, Steel C, Stagnell S, Bailey E. Awareness of Medication Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaws (MRONJ) amongst General Dental Practitioners. British Dental Journal, 2017; 222 (2): 121-125.
  • Bailey E, Tickle M, Campbell S, O’Malley L. Systematic Review of Patient Safety Interventions in Dentistry. BMC Oral Health, 2015; 15: 152.
  • Bailey E. Contemporary Views of Dental Practitioners’ on Patient Safety. British Dental Journal, 2015; 219 (11): 535-540.
  • Tabbenor O, Halai T, Bailey E, Coulthard P. Plasmablastic lymphoma of the oral cavity in an undiagnosed HIV-positive patient. Oral Surgery, 2015; 8: 232-237.
  • Bailey E, Rao J, Saksena A. Case Report: Fractured Needle in the Pterygomandibular Space Following Administration of an Inferior Dental Nerve Block. Dental Update, 2015; 42: 270-272.
  • Bailey E, Campbell S, Tickle M. Patient Safety in Primary Care Dentistry: where are we now? British Dental Journal, 2014. 217 (7): 339-344.
  • Coulthard P, Patel N, Bailey E, Armstrong D. Barriers to the use of morphine for the management of severe postoperative pain - A before and after study. International Journal of Surgery, 2014. 12: 150-155.
  • Coulthard P, Bailey E, Esposito M, Furness S, Renton TF, Worthington HV. Surgical techniques for the removal of mandibular wisdom teeth. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2014, Issue 7.
  • Coulthard P, Kushnerev E, Yates JM, Walsh T, Patel N, Bailey E, Renton TF. Interventions for iatrogenic inferior alveolar and lingual nerve injury. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2014, Issue 4.
  • Bailey E, Worthington HV, Coulthard P. Ibuprofen and/or paracetamol (acetaminophen) for pain relief after surgical removal of lower wisdom teeth, a Cochrane Systematic Review. British Dental Journal, 2014. 216(8): 451-5
  • Patel N, Bailey E, Mahdmina A, Lomax A, Coulthard P. Domestic Violence Education for UK and Ireland Undergraduate Dental Students: A Five-Year Perspective. Journal of Dental Education, 2014. 78(8): 1162-1166
  • Bailey E, Patel N, Coulthard P. Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs for pain after oral surgery. Oral Surgery, 2014. 7(3): 152-161
  • Coulthard P, Bailey E, Bridgman CM. Introducing Clinical Triage for Oral Surgery Referral Management in England. Oral Surgery, 2014. 7(3): 143-151.
  • Coulthard P, Bailey E, Patel N, Coulthard MB. Pain pathways, pre-emptive and protective analgesia for oral surgery. Oral Surgery, 2014. 7(2): 74-80.
  • Coulthard P, Bailey E, Patel N. Paracetamol (acetaminophen) for pain after oral surgery. Oral Surgery, 2014. 7(2): 81-86
  • Coulthard P, Patel N, Bailey E, Coulthard MB. Measuring pain after oral surgery. Oral Surgery, 2014. 7(4): 203-208.
  • Patel N, Bailey E, Coulthard P. Opioids for pain after oral surgery. Oral Surgery, 2014. 7(4): 196-202.
  • Bailey E, Worthington HV, van Wijk A, Yates JM, Coulthard P, Afzal Z. Ibuprofen and/or paracetamol (acetaminophen) for pain relief after surgical removal of lower wisdom teeth. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2013, Issue 12.

Supervision

A radiographic analysis of short-term outcomes of second molars in proximity to wisdom teeth in periodontal patients. (A retrospective radiographic study)

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