Professor Zoe Marshman

BDS, MPH, DDPH, FDS (DPH), PhD

School of Clinical Dentistry

Professor in Dental Public Health

Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health

z.marshman@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 215 9398

19 Claremont Crescent

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Professor Zoe Marshman
School of Clinical Dentistry
19 Claremont Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2TA

Profile: I joined the University of Sheffield in 2002 as a Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Specialist Registrar in Dental Public Health. Since then I have completed specialist training and was awarded a PhD in 2008. I am currently a Professor and Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health.

Research interests

My main interest is child-centred dental research to improve the oral health and treatment experiences of children and their families. I have led, published and presented internationally and nationally many child-centred research projects and have become recognised as an advocate for involving children in high quality oral health research, using innovative participatory methods. I lead the Transforming Oral Health theme of the School of Clinical Dentistry and the joint University/NHS CREATE research theme.

My current projects include:

Self-help Cognitive Behavioural Therapy resource for young people with dental anxiety

I am the principal investigator on a project to develop and evaluate a self-help Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) resource for young people with dental anxiety. This project involved collaboration with Kings College London, University of Reading and University of Glasgow. This project resulted in the first self-help CBT resource for young people with dental anxiety and accompanying resources for parents and dental teams.

The CALM trial

Since then, further funding has been obtained from the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme for the CALM trial to investigate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of the self-help CBT resource to reduce dental anxiety in children seen in primary dental care.

CALM is being conducted in collaboration with universities in Cardiff, Leeds, Newcastle, London & York with help from children, parents, dental professionals and patient representatives. Around 600 children with dental anxiety with a parent/carer will be recruited from 30 dental practices across England and Wales.

BRIGHT Trial: Brushing RemInder 4 Good oral Health

I am co-PI on the BRIGHT Trial (Brushing RemInder 4 Good oral HealTh), funded by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme. BRIGHT is a multi-centre UK-wide trial evaluating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a Short Messaging Service behaviour change programme to improve the oral health of young people living in deprived areas.

BRUSH: Optimising toothbrushing programmes in nurseries and schools

This project is investigating the implementation of supervised toothbrushing programmes in nursery and school settings and how to increase their uptake and success in the longer term. The project will lead to the co-production of a toolkit to optimise their implementation across England.

Learn more about BRUSH

Other projects

PIP: Pulpotomy for the management of Irreversible Pulpitis in mature teeth

SCRIPT: Selective Caries Removal In Posterior Teeth

Public health research projects: Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme - First Dental Steps

Collaborative networks

Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration

Internationally-funded research projects

Norwegian Research Council. #Care4YoungTeeth, 2022 - present

Publications

Journal articles

Dyer TA, Glenny AM, Macdonald L, Marshman Z & Jones K (2023) Effectiveness of strategies to increase participation in school-based epidemiological surveys: a rapid review. Community Dental Health, 40(1), 53-59.
Ainsworth H, Marshman Z, Whiteside K, Sykes D, Fairhurst C, Turner E, Chestnutt I, Day P, Dey D, Elliott L , El-Yousfi S et al (2023) Set up and assessment of progression criteria for internal pilots: the Brushing RemInder 4 Good oral HealTh (BRIGHT) trial example. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 9.
Marshman Z, Rodd H, Fairhurst C, Porritt J, Dawett B, Day P, Innes N, Vernazza C, Newton T, Ronaldson S , Cross L et al (2023) The CALM trial protocol: a randomised controlled trial of a guided self-help cognitive behavioural therapy intervention to reduce dental anxiety in children. Trials, 24.
Large J & Marshman Z (2022) Does dental caries lead to stunting and wasting in children?. Evidence-Based Dentistry, 23(4), 144-145.
Scott J & Marshman Z (2022) Does the use of miswak reduce plaque and gingivitis among adults?. Evidence-Based Dentistry, 23(4), 152-153.
El-Yousfi S, Marshman Z, Albers PN, Watt S, Kipping R & Williams JG (2022) Health visiting teams and children’s oral health: a scoping review. BMC Oral Health, 22.
Albers PN, Williams JG, El-Yousfi S, Marshman Z, Patel R, Kandiyali R, Breheny K, de Vocht F, Metcalfe C, Witton R & Kipping R (2022) Study protocol for First Dental Steps Intervention: feasibility study of a health visitor led infant oral health improvement programme. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 8(1).
Wang M-C, Marshman Z, Chen W-H & Shih W-Y (2022) A qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a pilot school-based, toothbrushing programme. BMC Oral Health, 22(1).
Giles E, Wray F, Eskyte I, Gray-Burrows KA, Owen J, Bhatti A, Zoltie T, McEachan R, Marshman Z, Pavitt S , West RM et al (2022) HABIT: Health visitors delivering Advice in Britain on Infant Toothbrushing – an early-phase feasibility study of a complex oral health intervention. BMJ Open, 12(10).
Rutter L, Duara R, Vinall-Collier KA, Owen J, Haley I, Gray-Burrows KA, Hearnshaw S, Marshman Z & Day PF () Experiences of newly qualified dentists in delivering oral health advice to parents/caregivers of young children—challenges and solutions. Frontiers in Oral Health, 4, 1079584.

Conference proceedings papers

Large J, Aswani N, Selby N, Marshman Z, Charlesworth J, Dyer T, Bingham E & Jowett A (2023) 284 Making every contact count – reconnecting oral health to holistic paediatric care in the management of childhood obesity. Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Reports

Marshman Z (2023) A behaviour change intervention (lesson and text messages) to prevent dental caries in secondary school pupils: the BRIGHT RCT

Preprints

Gibson Miller J, Marshman Z & Loescher A (2023) The role of dentists in weight management: A UK survey, Center for Open Science.
Innes N, Marshman Z, Fairhurst C, Elyousfi S, Whiteside K, Ainsworth H, Chestnutt I, Day P, Dey D, Hewitt C , Hicks K et al (2023) The oral health of secondary school pupils: baseline data from the Brushing RemInder 4 Good oral HealTh (BRIGHT) trial, Research Square Platform LLC.
Gray-Burrows K, Day P, Elyousfi S, Lloyd E, Hudson K & Marshman Z (2023) A national survey of Supervised Toothbrushing Programmes in England, Research Square Platform LLC.

Research group

Research associates

Dr Jennifer Kettle
Dr Sarab El Yousfi
Dr Tom Broomhead

PhD student

Sultan Attamimi: Investigation on the feasibility and utility of electronic administration of patient-reported outcome measures in Paediatric Dentistry. September 2020-. Funded by the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau (SACB) office, the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, London.
Ashwag Alotaibi: Oral health of children in special schools in Saudi Arabia. 2019-present. Funded by Saudi Arabia government.
Bhupinder Dawett: The implementation and acceptability of Minimum Intervention Dentistry in children attending NHS dental practice – a feasibility study. October 2017-present. Funded by NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship.
Fiona Noble: No need(le) to worry: development and feasibility study of a self-help cognitive behavioural therapy resource for children with needle fear. June 2021-. Funded by NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship.
Laura Timms: Silver diamine fluoride for the management of dental caries in children in primary dental care – a feasibility study. March 2022-. Funded by NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship.
Ziyad Alaskar: Development and Evaluation of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for the Reduction of Dental Fear and Anxiety Among Children in Saudi Arabia. March 2023-s

Teaching interests: I teach undergraduate dental students, dental hygiene and dental therapy students and on the Masters in Dental Public Health programme. My main teaching interests include dental epidemiology and the organisation of dental healthcare systems.

Teaching activities

I am the dental public health lead for the BDS programme and teach several modules on the masters in Dental Public Health.

I am an external examiner for several undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the UK.

Postgraduate taught

Dental Public Health MDPH

September 2024 start
1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time
Accredited

Find out how oral health is protected around the world. Examine strategies for planning dental services, preventing disease and promoting healthy living.

Professional activities and memberships

Invited speaker at International Association of Dental Research and International Association of Paediatric Dentistry conferences
National policy work for Department for Education and Public Health England
Chair of the North of England and Yorkshire Dental Public Health Audit group: 2014 - present
NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Oral and Dental specialty group lead 2016 - present
Academic director for Charles Clifford Dental Services, Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, 2017- present
Journal referee for Journal of Dental Research, Community Dentistry & Oral Epidemiology, Community Dental Health, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry, Quality of Life Research, British Dental Journal.
Chair and member of various trial and project steering committees.

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