Mr Leon Bassi
MSc, Dip Dent Paed (DT) RCS Edin, Dip DTh, FHEA, FDT Fed (RCS Ed)

Clinical Lecturer, Restorative Dentistry (Dental Therapy)
School of Dentistry

Part of
Institute of Life Course & Medical Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Contact

Leon.Bassi@liverpool.ac.uk

Research

Past research interests

Leon is a past recipient of the Robin Davies DCP award (2018) he was recently invited to talk about his experiences to this years winners and members of the dental community 2024.https://www.odrt.org.uk/award/colgate-robin-davies-dcp-awards/

Leon has presented scientific Poster presentations at both national and international level. His research interest was using the ICCMS caries prevention tool kit with the primary dentition. He has another research interest, child anxiety and the impact of this on sedation services, in which he co-presented a poster at the British society of Paediatric Dentistry.

Present

Leon has a keen interest in Haptic simulation for undergraduate students, in particular for periodontal clinical skills teaching to increase the fidelity of the experience, before the transition to the clinical environment.Haptic simulation

Leon's other keen interest is professionalisation of occupations, he has conducted research into Dental Therapy academics as part of his MSc dissertation.

Leon has recently presented at ADEE 2024. ADEE was Founded in 1975 the Association for Dental Education in Europe (ADEE) is an independent Europe wide organisation representing academic dentistry and the dental education community. The organisation currently represents over 80% of Dental schools in the European continent in addition to institutions further afield whose primary role is the provision of all aspects of education and professional development in Dentistry
Each year an ADEE member institution gets the opportunity to host between 350 and 600 international delegates from over 50 countries for the association’s annual meeting. Leon represented the University of Liverpool haptic research groups research co presenting , The Role of Haptic Simulation in Developing Periodontal Probing Skills in Undergraduate Dental Education