Dr Phillip Tomson BDS, PhD, MFDS RCSEd, RCSEng, FDS (Rest Dent) RCSEd

Dr Phillip Tomson

School of Dentistry
Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Restorative Dentistry
Head of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics
Head of Postgraduate Education

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 466 5173
Email
p.l.tomson@bham.ac.uk
Address
The School of Dentistry
5 Mill Pool Way
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B5 7EG
United Kingdom

Phil Tomson is a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Restorative Dentistry at Birmingham Dental Hospital and School. He is Head of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics and Designated Individual for the Human Tissue Authority in Dentistry at Birmingham.

Phil completed his higher speciality training in 2011 and holds specialist registration with the GDC in Restorative Dentistry, Endodontics, Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics and Periodontics. He completed a PhD in 2013 with research focused on regeneration of the dentine-pulp complex. He has won the Wladimir Adlivankine ESE research prize and was one of the first recipients of the FDS research fellowships from RCS Eng. His main research interests lie in tissue regeneration and engineering of the dental pulp, therapeutic methods in irrigating the root canal system and novel methods of assessing root canal disinfection. He is heavily involved in postgraduate and undergraduate teaching programmes at Birmingham School of Dentistry. Phil lectures nationally and internationally on subjects related to the clinical management of pulpal and periradicular disease and his research.

Qualifications

  • PhD; University 麻豆精选 2013.
  • Intercollegiate Specialty Fellowship Examination (Restorative Dentistry) 2011
  •  Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery; Royal College of Surgeons (London) 2003.
  • Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery; Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) 2003.
  •  BDS; University 麻豆精选 2000

Teaching

  • BDS
  • BSc in Dental Hygiene and Therapy
  • MSc Advanced General Dental Practice (Module Lead)
  • MSc Restorative Dentistry (Module Lead)

Other activities

  • International Endodontic Journal editorial board member
  •  British Endodontic Society Council Member
  •  Examiner, Membership of Restorative Dentistry (MRD), Royal College of Surgeons of England
  •  European Society of Endodontics membership committee member
  • Current or past external examiner for several post graduate clinical programs in the UK
  • West Midlands Restorative Dentistry Managed Clinical Network
  • Member of the University 麻豆精选’s Human Tissue Oversight Committee (HTOC)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Cheadle, AMG, Maier, E, Palin, WM, Tomson, PL, Poologasundarampillai, G & Hadis, MA 2025, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 12592.

Virdee, S, Bashir, N, Grant, M, Cooper, PR & Tomson, P 2025, '', International Endodontic Journal.

Virdee, SS, Bashir, NZ, Krstic, M, Camilleri, J, Grant, MM, Cooper, PR & Tomson, PL 2023, '', International Endodontic Journal.

Virdee, S, Oglah Albaaj, FS, Camilleri, J, Grant, M, Walmsley, D, Cooper, P & Tomson, P 2022, '', The European journal of prosthodontics and restorative dentistry.

Zancan, RF, Hadis, M, Burgess, D, Zhang, J, Di Maio, A, Tomson, P, Duarte, MAH & Camilleri, J 2021, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 4666 .

Zancan, RF, Di Maio, A, Tomson, PL, Duarte, MAH & Camilleri, J 2021, '', International Endodontic Journal, vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 1369-1382.

Virdee, S, Ravaghi, V, Camilleri, J, Cooper, P & Tomson, P 2020, '', British Dental Journal.

Virdee, S, Farnell, DJJ, Silva, MA, Camilleri, J, Cooper, P & Tomson, P 2020, '', International Endodontic Journal, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 986-997.

Matos, FDS, do Prado, RF, Khoury, RD, de Oliveira, LD, Valera, MC, Tomson, PL & Carvalho, CAT 2019, '', Dental Traumatology.

Petridis, X, Beems, BP, Tomson, P, Scheven, B, Giepmans, B, Kuipers, J, van der Sluis, L & Harmsen, MC 2019, '', Tissue Engineering Part A, vol. 25, no. 15-16, pp. 1104-1115.

Austah, O, Widbiller, M, Tomson, PL & Diogenes, A 2019, '', Journal of Endodontics, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 414-419.

Dietrich, T, Krug, R, Krastl, G & Tomson, P 2019, '', British Dental Journal, vol. 226, no. 10, pp. 789鈥�793.

Heran, J, Khalid, S, Albaaj, F, Tomson, PL & Camilleri, J 2019, '', Journal of Dentistry, vol. 89, 103181.

Kelly, RD, Addison, O, Tomson, PL, Krastl, G & Dietrich, T 2016, '', The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry.

Review article

Virdee, SS, Butt, K, Grant, M, Camilleri, J, Cooper, PR & Tomson, PL 2019, '', International Endodontic Journal, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1108-1127.