Professor Michael A Lennon (MDS, DPD, FDSRCS(Ed), FFPH)
Clinical Professor (part time) and Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health, Sheffield PCT
Tel: 0114 2717885
Fax: 0114 2717843
Email: m.a.lennon@sheffield.ac.uk
Administrative Roles
Programme Manager, Dental Outreach Programme since September 2003
National Administrative Role
Chair – British Fluoridation Society
Previous Posts
1969-1989 - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer University of Manchester
1985-1989 - Regional Dental Officer (Part time) North Western Regional Health Authority
1989-2003 - Professor, Dental Public Health and
Head of Department of Clinical Dental Sciences University of Liverpool
Awards
OBE (2006)
Recently Published Papers
Smith M, Lennon MA, Brook AH, Blinkhorn FA, Blinkhorn AS, Robinson PG. The Effect of Outreach Placement on Treatment Planning by Dental Students. Br Dent J. 2006; 201:27-31
Smith M, Lennon MA, Brook AH, Ritucci L, Robinson PG. Student perspectives on their recent dental outreach placement experiences. Eur J Dent Educ 2006; 10: 80–86
Smith M, Lennon MA, Brook AH, Robinson PG. Perspectives of staff on student outreach placements. Eur J Dent Educ 2006; 10: 44–51
Smith M, Lennon MA, Brook AH, Robinson PG. A randomized controlled trial of outreach placement's effect on dental students' clinical confidence. J Dent Educ. 2006;70:566-70
Lennon MA. One-in-a-million: the first community trial of water fluoridation. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation 2006; 84: 759-760
Jones S, Burt B, Petersen PE, Lennon MA. The effective use of fluorides in public health. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation 2005; 83:670-676
Lennon MA, Ireland RS, Tappin J, Ratcliffe PM, Taylor I, Turner R, Jenner AM. The Personal Dental Service as a setting for an undergraduate clinical programme. British Dental Journal 2004; 196: 419-422
Peterson PE, Lennon MA. Effective use of fluorides for the prevention of dental caries in the 21st century: the WHO approach. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 2004; 32: 319-321
Sigurjons H, Cochran JA, Ketley CE, Holbrook WP, Lennon MA, O´Mullane DM. Parental perception of fluorosis among 8-year-old children living in three communities in Iceland, Ireland and England. Community Dentistry and oral Epidemiology 2004; 32: (Suppl 1) 34-38
Ketley CE, West JL, Lennon MA. The use of school milk as a vehicle for fluoride in the UK: preliminary evaluation of effectiveness. Community Dental Health 2003; 20: 83-88
Harris DV, Dailey Y-M Lennon MA. Recording and understanding social histories by dental undergraduates in a community-based education programme. European Journal of Dental Education 2003; 7: 34-40
Dailey Y-M, Humphris GM, Lennon MA. Reducing patients´ anxiety in general dental practice: A randomised controlled trial. Journal of Dental Research 2002; 81: 319-322
Ketley CE, Cochran JA, Lennon MA, O´Mullane DM, Worthington HV. Urinary fluoride excretion of young children exposed to different fluoride regimes. Community Dental Health 2002; 19: 12-17
Dailey Y-M, Crawford AN, Humphris GM, Lennon MA. Effectiveness of dental anxiety treatment in Primary Dental Care: A long-term investigation. Primary Dental Care 2001; 8: 51-56
Dailey Y-M, Crawford AN, Humphris GM, Lennon MA. The use of dental anxiety questionnaires: A survey of a group of UK dental practitioners. British Dental Journal 2001; 190: 450-4
Ketley CE, Lennon MA. Determination of fluoride intake from urinary excretion data in children drinking fluoridated school milk. Caries Research 2001; 35: 252-257