Claire Harwood

Claire Harwood

Specialist Oral Surgeon

GDC No. 112505

Claire is a Specialty Registrar in Oral Surgery at the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital in Sheffield and a specialist in Oral Surgery after passing the Royal College of Surgeons Intercollegiate Diploma of Membership in Oral Surgery examination. She is currently undertaking a period of post-specialist training towards her Fellowship in Oral Surgery. At Sheffield her work involves more complex surgical dentistry, and she teaches both undergraduate dental students and post-graduates.

Claire qualified in dentistry from The University of Liverpool in 2007. Prior to this she did a degree in Biology and a PhD at the University of Leeds, and then worked for three years as a post-doctoral research fellow at The University of Pennsylvania, USA. Following her dental degree, she completed Vocational Training in Merseyside, a dental Senior House Officer post at Liverpool Dental Hospital, and Oral and Maxillofacial Senior House Office posts at Aintree University Hospital and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. After her daughter was born, she became a Community Dental Officer in Derbyshire treating children and adults with special needs, complex medical problems, anxieties and learning difficulties.

Claire’s broad training has allowed her to become very experienced in treating anxious adults and children. She puts patients at ease, takes time to explain what she is doing and uses a range of anxiety management techniques. Claire has a special interest in conscious sedation for dentistry and has completed a postgraduate diploma in Conscious Sedation at Newcastle University.

Claire is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons England and the British Association of Oral Surgeons. Away from the world of dentistry Claire has a busy life with her husband, daughter, and young son. She tries to fit in exercise and her own social life around her children’s extra-curricular activities, but sometimes fails!