Profile
Dr Al-Helou is currently an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow/ Speciality Registrar in Prosthodontics at the Centre of Oral Bioengineering at the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, QMUL. She has joined the speciality-training pathway in 2024.
Dr Al-Helou graduated from University of Liverpool where she gained her Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) with honours in 2019. Dr Al-Helou then went on to complete her Diploma of membership with the Faculty of Dental Surgery (MFDS) at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCS Ed). Dr Al-Helou is committed to education which led her to gaining a PGCERT with distinction in Teaching and Learning in Clinical Practice.
Dr Al-Helou's experience includes 2 years working as a Dental Core Trainee in Restorative and General duties across two trusts. She also gained accreditation to provide Intravenous and Inhalation sedation to patients undergoing dental treatment and has treated many patients at Liverpool Dental Hospital and the Royal London Dental Hospital. She has authored multiple articles published in prestigious journals, including the British Dental Journal (BDJ), Oral Surgery Journal, and Dental Update, covering topics such as endodontics, bone grafting, and treatment planning. Dr Al-Helou has also presented at conferences such as the BSPD, BISOM, and internationally on topics including streamlining sedation pathways, UDCs and COVID as well as looking at referral pathways. She has been awarded multiple awards during her career.
Centre: Oral Bioengineering
Teaching
Dr Al-Helou is very much interested in teaching, and completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in a Clinical Context at Edge Hill University, Liverpool where she achieved a Distinction. She has taught undergraduate dental students on the oral surgery and emergency clinics at the University of Liverpool during her dental core training year. Here, she was able to further refine her teaching skills, supervising undergraduate dental students in the special care department conducting treatment under sedation. She currently supervises dental core trainees on clinics at the Royal London Hospital.
Research
Research Interests:
Dr Al-Helou has an interest in digital dentistry and is currently focussing on carrying out further research within this field.
Publications
Book British Dental Journal – (July 2023) - Contemporary endodontics for children and adolescents (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-023-6080-6)
British Dental Journal – (March 2023) - A literature review: which endodontic access cavity is best (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-023-5581-7)
Dental Update – (December 2022) - Treatment planning of a patient requiring multiple restorative treatment modalities by a recently qualified dentist (https://doi.org/10.12968/denu.2022.49.11.927)
Oral Surgery Journal – (October 2022) - Bone Grafts in Dentistry: A case report of migration of bone graft material (https://doi.org/10.1111/ors.12786)
International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry – (October 2021) - Re-evaluating paediatric dental sedation waiting list prioritisation due to the COVID-19 pandemic (https://doi.org/10.1111/ipd.12916)
BDJ Team – (May 2021) - The extra oral and intra oral examination (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41407-021-0622-z)
BDJ Team – (October 2020) - Smoking cessation and e- cigarettes (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41407-020-0433-7)
BDJ Team – (July 2020) - ‘I have been able to reconnect with my patients’ (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41407-020-0371-4)
BDJ– (May 2020) - Oral Cancer Patients (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-020-1695-3)
Contribution to article (April 2020) - How are we coping? (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41407-020-0289-x)
