Professor Thomas Dietrich Dr. med., Dr. med. dent., MPH, FDS RCPS

Thomas Dietrich

School of Dentistry
Professor of Oral Surgery

Contact details

Email
t.dietrich@bham.ac.uk
Address
The School of Dentistry
5 Mill Pool Way
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B5 7EG
United Kingdom

Thomas Dietrich is Head of the Department of Oral Surgery in the School of Dentistry in the School of Health Sciences.

Thomas is a clinical researcher/epidemiologist in Dental Medicine, particularly in the fields of Oral Surgery and Periodontology, and has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH/USA), the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR/UK) and the European Union.

He is a member of the  and is an NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Advisory Panel member.

Qualifications

  • Honorary Fellowship in Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons, 2008.
  • Doctor medicinae, Charité, Humboldt University, 2003.
  • Master in Public Health, Harvard University, 2002.
  • Medicine, Charité, Humboldt University, 2001.
  • Doctor medicinae dentariae, Charité, Humboldt University, 1997.
  • Dentistry, Charité, Humboldt University, 1995.

Teaching

  • Dental Surgery BDS

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Dietrich is interested in supervising doctoral researchers in the following areas:

Clinical outcomes in dentoalveolar surgery and implantology, in particular in methods to reduce morbidity after lower third molar surgery
Links between oral disease/interventions (in particular in periodontology and oral surgery) and systemic conditions such as cardiovascular disease and rheumatoid arthritis

Publications

Highlight publications

Gorecki, P, Rainsford, KD, Taneja, P, Bulsara, Y, Pearson, D, Saund, D, Ahmed, B & Dietrich, T 2018, '', Journal of Dental Research, vol. 97, no. 4, pp. 381-387.

Gorecki, P, Burke, D, Chapple, I, Hemming, K, Saund, D, Pearson, D, Stahl, W, Lello, R & Dietrich, T 2018, '', Clinical Nutrition, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 1448-1455.

Heaton, B, Garcia, RI & Dietrich, T 2018, '', Journal of Clinical Periodontology, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 1034-1044.

Recent publications

Article

Dietrich, T, Bonsmann, B, von See, C & Abughalia, M 2025, '', Journal of Clinical Periodontology.

Li, X, Niu, Z, Gao, C, Kroeger, A, Tsakos, G, Li, B, Zhu, J, Chen, G & Dietrich, T 2025, '', BDJ Open, vol. 11, 50.

Rimmer, P, Cheesbrough, J, Harris, J, Love, M, Tull, S, Iqbal, A, Regan-Komito, D, Cooney, R, Hazel, K, Sharma, N, Dietrich, T, Chapple, I, Quraishi, MN & Iqbal, TH 2024, '', Frontline Gastroenterology.

Wagner, SK, Patel, PJ, Huemer, J, Khalid, H, Stuart, K, Chu, C, Williamson, DJ, Struyven, RR, Romero-Bascones, D, Foster, P, Khawaja, A, Petzold, A, Balaskas, K, Cortina-Borja, M, Chapple, I, Dietrich, T, Rahi, JS, Denniston, A & Keane, PA 2024, '', Ophthalmology Science.

Li, X, Kristunas, C, Landini, G, Kroeger, A & Dietrich, T 2023, '', Clinical Oral Investigations, vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 7231-7236.

Krug, R, Kroeger, A, Dietrich, T & Krastl, G 2023, '', Quintessenz Zahnmedizin, vol. 2023, pp. 808-515. <>

Yonel, Z, Kocher, T, Chapple, I, Dietrich, T, Völzke, H, Nauck, M, Collins, G, Gray, LJ & Holtfreter, B 2023, '', Journal of Dental Research, vol. 102, no. 2, pp. 170-177.

Sharma, P, Kristunas, C, Chapple, I & Dietrich, T 2023, '', Journal of Clinical Periodontology, vol. 50, no. 5, 13776, pp. 582-590.

Yonel, Z, Kuningas, K, Sharma, P, Dutton, M, Jalal, Z, Cockwell, P, Webber, J, Narendran, P, Dietrich, T & Chapple, I 2022, '', BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, vol. 22, no. 1, 248.

Alshihayb, T, Sharma, P, Dietrich, T & Heaton, B 2022, '', Journal of Clinical Periodontology, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 448-457.

De Pablo, P, Serban, S, Lopez-Oliva, I, Rooney, J, Hill, K, Raza, K, Filer, A, Chapple, I & Dietrich, T 2022, '', Journal of Clinical Periodontology, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 295-306.

Lamerton, R, Marcial-Juarez, E, Faustini, S, Perez-Toledo, M, Goodall, M, Jossi, S, Newby, ML, Chapple, I, Dietrich, T, Veenith, T, Shields, A, Harper, L, Henderson, I, Rayes, J, Wraith, D, Watson, S, Crispin, M, Drayson, M, Richter, A & Cunningham, A 2022, '', Frontiers in immunology, vol. 13, 838780.

Shields, A, Faustini, S, Kristunas, C, Cook, A, Backhouse, C, Dunbar, L, Ebanks, D, Emmanuel, B, Crouch, E, Kroeger, A, Hirschfeld, J, Sharma, P, Jaffery, R, Nowak, S, Gee, S, Drayson, M, Richter, A, Dietrich, T & Chapple, I 2021, '', Journal of Dental Research, vol. 100, no. 11, pp. 1220-1227.

Chapter

Kroeger, A & Dietrich, T 2024, . in S Dibart & T Dietrich (eds), Practical Periodontal Diagnosis and Treatment Planning. 2nd edn, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 129-134.

Review article

Chapple, ILC, Hirschfeld, J, Cockwell, P, Dietrich, T & Sharma, P 2024, '', Nature Reviews. Nephrology.

Expertise

Periodontal Diseases