Mr Nicholas Beacher

  • Clinical Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant in Special Care Dentistry (Dental School)

email: Nicholas.Beacher@glasgow.ac.uk

School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, 378 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Dental Hospital & School, Glasgow, G2 3JZ

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Biography

Nick delivers teaching to undergraduate and postgraduate audiences throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland with a particular focus on the practice and scholarship of active learning. He is a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy.

Nick is The Learning and Teaching Lead for The British Society of Special Care Dentistry.

His current research activity focusses on the associations between the oral microbiome and head and neck cancer.

He was a member of the guidance development group for SDCEP, Management of Dental Patients Taking Anticoagulants or Antiplatelet Drugs, 2nd edition and Supporting access to oral health care and dental treatment for people with severe mental illness: a clinical guideline from the British Society of Special Care Dentistry, 1st edition 2024.

His clinical practice is undertaken throughout NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde at The Glasgow Royal Infirmary and The Royal Alexandra Hospital.  He delivers care to people who experience impairment and/or disability with a particular interest in the medically complex/compromised and the provision of comprehensive care under general anaesthetic.

Publications

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Number of items: 6.

2024

Geddis-Regan, Andrew, Addington-Hall, Sarah, Beacher, Nicholas G., Boynton, Camilla, Curl, Charlotte, Rafique, Sobia and Srivastava, Samir (2024) Supporting Access to Oral Health Care and Dental Treatment for People with Severe Mental Illness: a Clinical Guideline from the British Society for Special Care Dentistry. Documentation. British Society for Special Care Dentistry.

2023

Donn, James, Scott, James Alun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1536-7035, Binnie, Vivian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8610-6812, Mather, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3353-2954, Beacher, Nicholas and Bell, Aileen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5701-7012 (2023) Virtual objective structured clinical examination during the COVID-19 pandemic: an essential addition to dental assessment. European Journal of Dental Education, 27(1), pp. 46-55. (doi: 10.1111/eje.12775) (PMID:35051306)

2017

Watterson, Colin and Beacher, Nicholas (2017) Preventing perioperative bleeding in patients with inherited bleeding disorders. Evidence-Based Dentistry, 18(1), pp. 28-29. (doi: 10.1038/sj.ebd.6401226) (PMID:28338025)

2015

Beacher, Nicholas G., Brodie, Martin J. and Goodall, Christine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-6919 (2015) A case report: retigabine induced oral mucosal dyspigmentation of the hard palate. BMC Oral Health, 15(1), 122. (doi: 10.1186/s12903-015-0102-y) (PMID:26452759)

Beacher, N., Sweeney, M.P. and Bagg, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-2078 (2015) Dentists, antibiotics and Clostridium difficile-associated disease. British Dental Journal, 219(6), pp. 275-279. (doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2015.720) (PMID:26404991)

Beacher, Nicholas and Sweeney, M. Petrina (2015) The francis report – implications for oral care of the elderly. Dental Update, 42(4), pp. 318-323. (doi: 10.12968/denu.2015.42.4.318) (PMID:26062255)

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 16:11:13 2025 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Research Reports or Papers
Number of items: 6.

Articles

Donn, James, Scott, James Alun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1536-7035, Binnie, Vivian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8610-6812, Mather, Craig ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3353-2954, Beacher, Nicholas and Bell, Aileen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5701-7012 (2023) Virtual objective structured clinical examination during the COVID-19 pandemic: an essential addition to dental assessment. European Journal of Dental Education, 27(1), pp. 46-55. (doi: 10.1111/eje.12775) (PMID:35051306)

Watterson, Colin and Beacher, Nicholas (2017) Preventing perioperative bleeding in patients with inherited bleeding disorders. Evidence-Based Dentistry, 18(1), pp. 28-29. (doi: 10.1038/sj.ebd.6401226) (PMID:28338025)

Beacher, Nicholas G., Brodie, Martin J. and Goodall, Christine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4949-6919 (2015) A case report: retigabine induced oral mucosal dyspigmentation of the hard palate. BMC Oral Health, 15(1), 122. (doi: 10.1186/s12903-015-0102-y) (PMID:26452759)

Beacher, N., Sweeney, M.P. and Bagg, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-2078 (2015) Dentists, antibiotics and Clostridium difficile-associated disease. British Dental Journal, 219(6), pp. 275-279. (doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2015.720) (PMID:26404991)

Beacher, Nicholas and Sweeney, M. Petrina (2015) The francis report – implications for oral care of the elderly. Dental Update, 42(4), pp. 318-323. (doi: 10.12968/denu.2015.42.4.318) (PMID:26062255)

Research Reports or Papers

Geddis-Regan, Andrew, Addington-Hall, Sarah, Beacher, Nicholas G., Boynton, Camilla, Curl, Charlotte, Rafique, Sobia and Srivastava, Samir (2024) Supporting Access to Oral Health Care and Dental Treatment for People with Severe Mental Illness: a Clinical Guideline from the British Society for Special Care Dentistry. Documentation. British Society for Special Care Dentistry.

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 16:11:13 2025 BST.

Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • Bioinformatic Approaches to Assessing the Applicability of Microbial Biomarkers in Head and Neck Cancer
    NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Endowment Funds
    2023 - 2024
     

Nicholas Beacher