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Professor Pitts
Professor Pitts

Professor Nigel Pitts

Dean of Research Impact

  • Professor of Dental Health, Director: Dental Innovation and Impact

Research interests

  • Dentistry

Biography

At King’s College London's Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, Professor Nigel Pitts FRSE has served as Director of the Innovation and Translation Centre (now a research hub in the Centre for Oral, Clinical & Translational Sciences). He is currently (from February 2022) serving as Dean of Research Impact  across the University and continues as Director of Dental Innovation and Impact for the Faculty

He is also Professor of Dental Health, leads the GCCM (Global Collaboratory for Caries Management initiative), is chair of both the ACFF (Alliance for Cavity Free Future) and the ICDAS Foundation (International Caries Classification and Management System) charities and co-founder of the Erosive Tooth Wear Foundation. Within the NHS he is also an Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health to Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

Professor Pitts graduated in Dentistry from the University of London, moved to the University of Hong Kong to help set up a new Dental School in the 1980's and returned to the UK to take up the Directorship of the Dental Health Services Research Unit at the University of Dundee (where he also served as Dean of Dentistry and Director of the Centre for Clinical Innovations).

He returned to London at the start of 2013. Professor Pitts has been awarded international research prizes from: the FDI World Dental Federation, the British Dental Association Research Foundation, the International Association for Dental Research (two Distinguished Scientist Awards) as well as from the European Organization for Caries Research (ORCA – where he is a Past President).

He is also Past President of BASCD - the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry and of EADPH – the European Association for Dental Public Health. He has assembled a portfolio of research and commercialisation grants of over £30 million, has over 220 peer-reviewed publications as well as over 100 other published communications to date.

    Research

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    Centre for Oral, Clinical & Translational Sciences

    From toothwear to oral pathology, from facial reconstruction to oral surgery, there's one thing that all our research shares: an underlying desire to make a difference to patients and bring benefits to society. We’re particularly strong in prosthodontics and endodontics research, and our work in this field feeds into our postgraduate programmes.

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    Fluoride Interventions to prevent dental decay in care home residents (FInCH): A cluster randomised feasibility study

    Establishing the feasibility, acceptability & compliance of delivering fluoride interventions for the prevention of dental caries in care homes for older people

    Project status: Completed

    News

    REF 2021 results demonstrate impact of FoDOCS research

    Results published today show combined strength of King’s profile for high-quality, impactful research within allied and applied health research, including...

    Dental Pubic Health MSc

    Policy consensus to make inroads toward securing a Cavity-Free Future

    The Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future has published a Global Consensus for achieving a dental cavity-free future, a comprehensive collection of policy...

    ACFF dentistry Policy Lab

    Shifting policy towards a cavity-free future

    King's College London researchers studying dental caries, in collaboration with the Policy Institute at King's, have developed a series of three very...

    Policy lab participants

    An in-depth look at: the Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future

    For the last five years, a small yet effective group has been taking root at King’s College London.

    Young boy brushing his teeth as part of World Cavity-Free Future Day Activities from the ACFF Malaysian Chapter

    ACFF Dental Policy Lab aims to repeat last year's success

    The Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future (ACFF) is a global, not-for-profit organisation, which seeks to promote integrated clinical and public health action to...

    acff-4-cropped-527x176

    Prestigious review of dental caries field published

    A new authoritative international review of the field of dental caries, led by King’s College London’s Dental Institute, has been published recently in the...

    Dental

    Policy Lab Progress

    Blueprint plan adapted and soon to be implemented

    Policy Lab Progress

    World Cavity-Free Future Day

    World Cavity-Free Future Day, an initiative founded by ACFF, runs annually globally, and is now in its fourth year.

    World Cavity-Free Future Day

    Change is coming within the dental sector

    The Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future, together with the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences and the Policy Institute are holding their second...

    The 2018 Policy Lab

    Features

    An in-depth look at: The Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future

    For the last seven years, a small yet effective group has been taking root at King’s College London.

    aliance-cavity-free-future-feature-banner

    Spotlight

    The Global Collaboratory for Caries Management

    How King’s College London is enabling a shift in the prevention and treatment of tooth decay worldwide.

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      Research

      1800x500 dentistry_video_hero
      Centre for Oral, Clinical & Translational Sciences

      From toothwear to oral pathology, from facial reconstruction to oral surgery, there's one thing that all our research shares: an underlying desire to make a difference to patients and bring benefits to society. We’re particularly strong in prosthodontics and endodontics research, and our work in this field feeds into our postgraduate programmes.

      finch-thumbnail2
      Fluoride Interventions to prevent dental decay in care home residents (FInCH): A cluster randomised feasibility study

      Establishing the feasibility, acceptability & compliance of delivering fluoride interventions for the prevention of dental caries in care homes for older people

      Project status: Completed

      News

      REF 2021 results demonstrate impact of FoDOCS research

      Results published today show combined strength of King’s profile for high-quality, impactful research within allied and applied health research, including...

      Dental Pubic Health MSc

      Policy consensus to make inroads toward securing a Cavity-Free Future

      The Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future has published a Global Consensus for achieving a dental cavity-free future, a comprehensive collection of policy...

      ACFF dentistry Policy Lab

      Shifting policy towards a cavity-free future

      King's College London researchers studying dental caries, in collaboration with the Policy Institute at King's, have developed a series of three very...

      Policy lab participants

      An in-depth look at: the Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future

      For the last five years, a small yet effective group has been taking root at King’s College London.

      Young boy brushing his teeth as part of World Cavity-Free Future Day Activities from the ACFF Malaysian Chapter

      ACFF Dental Policy Lab aims to repeat last year's success

      The Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future (ACFF) is a global, not-for-profit organisation, which seeks to promote integrated clinical and public health action to...

      acff-4-cropped-527x176

      Prestigious review of dental caries field published

      A new authoritative international review of the field of dental caries, led by King’s College London’s Dental Institute, has been published recently in the...

      Dental

      Policy Lab Progress

      Blueprint plan adapted and soon to be implemented

      Policy Lab Progress

      World Cavity-Free Future Day

      World Cavity-Free Future Day, an initiative founded by ACFF, runs annually globally, and is now in its fourth year.

      World Cavity-Free Future Day

      Change is coming within the dental sector

      The Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future, together with the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences and the Policy Institute are holding their second...

      The 2018 Policy Lab

      Features

      An in-depth look at: The Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future

      For the last seven years, a small yet effective group has been taking root at King’s College London.

      aliance-cavity-free-future-feature-banner

      Spotlight

      The Global Collaboratory for Caries Management

      How King’s College London is enabling a shift in the prevention and treatment of tooth decay worldwide.

      global collab caries 1920x1080