Dental Consultant
Dr Alison Dougall is the Dental Consultant in Medically Complex Patients at Dublin Dental Hospital and Director of the Doctorate Programme in Special Care Dentistry at Trinity College Dublin. She educates dentists at undergraduate postgraduate and specialist level has led oral health services for people with a wide range of rare bleeding disorders at the National Coagulation Centre in Dublin for 15 years and has published a significant number of peer reviewed research papers in this area. She is the former chair of the dental committee of the World Federation of Haemophilia and is on the Medical Advisory Board of the European Haemophilia Consortium. She is currently the President of the International Society for Disability and Oral Health in 2017 she was voted the HMI Health Leader of Ireland for her work developing integrated oral health care pathways for people with inherited bleeding disorders.
Module 2 - How to screen for VWD
Module 3 - How to care for a patient with VWD
Module 1 - When to consider VWD
Listen to Dentist Dr Alison Dougall and Haematologist Dr Rosa Sonja Alesci discuss gum bleeding and dental care in patients with von Willebrand disease, including the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach.