About

Tanya Lommerse

GDC-Registered Specialist in Oral Surgery
Associate Specialist in Oral Surgery
GDC No. 81858

Tanya Lommerse is a GDC-registered Specialist in Oral Surgery with more than 20 years’ experience in hospital and private oral surgery.

Tanya graduated from Newcastle Dental School in 2003 before moving to Cornwall to complete her vocational dental training. She subsequently joined the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, progressing from Senior House Officer and Specialty Doctor to Associate Specialist in Oral Surgery.

In 2013 she was admitted to the General Dental Council Specialist List in Oral Surgery, and continues to combine her senior hospital role with private specialist practice.

Clinical Experience

Tanya independently assesses and treats adults and children requiring both routine and complex oral surgery.

Her hospital and private practice encompasses a broad range of oral surgery, including the management of patients with complex surgical and medical needs. She has extensive experience providing treatment under local anaesthesia and conscious sedation, as well as managing more complex oral surgery within the hospital environment, including treatment under general anaesthesia.

Multidisciplinary Care

Tanya works closely with the Orthodontic team at the Royal Cornwall Hospital and participates in multidisciplinary clinics for patients requiring combined orthodontic and oral surgical care. Tanya also works closely with Orthodontists in primary care, accepting referrals and managing orthodontic planned extractions and exposures.

She is also involved in multidisciplinary care with Restorative Dentistry and the wider Head and Neck team, including treatment planning and oral rehabilitation following head and neck cancer. This may involve complex rehabilitation using dental prostheses, implants and obturators.

Her extensive multidisciplinary experience allows the surgical, dental and wider healthcare needs of patients with more complex conditions to be considered together.

Supporting Anxious Adults and Children

Tanya has a particular interest in caring for anxious adults and children and takes a calm, supportive and individualised approach to treatment.

Teaching, Audit and NHS Advisory Work

Alongside her clinical practice, Tanya has a longstanding involvement in education, clinical audit and the development of oral surgery services.

She lectures in Oral Surgery at Plymouth University Peninsula Dental School and provides clinical supervision in Oral Surgery for fourth-year dental students. She also contributes to postgraduate teaching on the MSc in Oral Surgery when required, alongside her wider involvement in postgraduate dental and medical education.

Tanya is Audit Lead within her NHS Hospital role and previously held Clinical Governance Lead position.

She has worked as a Clinical Adviser since 2015, working closely with NHS England and the Oral Surgery Managed Clinical Network on the development and review of oral surgery guidance and referral pathways. She helps to ensure patients are directed to appropriate services and supporting improvements in patient care. Tanya also attends Urgent care and Paediatric Managed Clinical Network meetings.

British Antarctic Survey Medical Unit

Since 2020, Tanya has worked as a Dental Adviser to the British Antarctic Survey Medical Unit- providing advice on dentistry, oral surgery and the management of facial trauma in the remote Antarctic environment.

As part of this role, she helps lead an intensive week-long training course at Plymouth University for doctors preparing for deployment to Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey.

Training includes the recognition and management of dental emergencies, practical dental treatment, dental extractions and oral surgery, facial trauma and oral medicine conditions. This prepares doctors to manage dental and maxillofacial problems in an austere and remote environment, where there is no access to specialist services.

Additional Clinical Interests

Tanya has undertaken (further) postgraduate training in pain management and medical acupuncture.

She has many years’ experience providing hospital-based acupuncture clinics. This includes use as part of the supportive management of patients experiencing xerostomia (dry mouth) following radiotherapy for head and neck cancer.

She also uses acupuncture alongside conventional treatment in selected patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and myofascial pain.

Qualifications and Professional Memberships

• GDC Specialist List in Oral Surgery
• Member of the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• British Association of Oral Surgeons
• British Dental Association

Tanya undertakes regular continuing professional development to ensure her practice remains evidence-based and aligned with current professional guidance.

Where Care Is Provided – Waterside Dentalcare

Private oral surgery treatment is provided at Waterside Dentalcare in Penryn, Cornwall.

Waterside is a well-established dental practice with a strong commitment to high-quality patient care. Unusually? situated just a few metres from the water, the practice provides a calm, welcoming and relaxed environment, supported by a friendly and experienced dental team.

The clinicians at Waterside have experience across a range of areas of dentistry and work closely together. This allows patients to benefit from a collaborative approach where input from another area of dental expertise may be helpful.

The practice offers modern clinical facilities and digital technology to support assessment, treatment planning and oral surgery. This includes digital radiography, CBCT (3D imaging) and intraoral digital scanning, together with specialist surgical equipment including piezosurgery where clinically appropriate.

These technologies can assist with detailed assessment and treatment planning and allow the most appropriate approach to be selected for the individual patient.

Particular consideration is given to patients who are anxious about dental treatment. The relaxed environment, experienced team and ability to allow additional appointment time where appropriate can help make oral surgery a more comfortable and reassuring experience for both adults and children.

Free patient parking is available immediately outside the practice.

Our Approach to Care

Patients are at the centre of the treatment process. Time is taken to discuss the diagnosis, treatment options, anticipated costs, potential risks and benefits and appropriate alternatives before treatment.

Referring practitioners are kept informed of relevant findings and treatment. Once the referred episode of specialist care is complete, patients will normally return to their own dentist for continuing routine dental care.

Patient feedback is welcomed. Any concerns about care are managed in accordance with Waterside Dentalcare’s complaints procedure.

Waterside Dentalcare is a uniquely located dental practice renowned for its commitment to dental excellence in Cornwall. The practice is situated only a few metres from the sea. The calm and relaxing environment is enhanced by friendly, experienced and highly trained team members.

The dentists who work there are a hand-picked group of highly qualified colleagues who trust and rely on each other with the ultimate goal of providing expert patient care.

The practice is very well equipped with the appropriate advances in dental technology to deliver excellent outcomes for patients. This includes the use of digital 2D and 3D x-ray imaging, 3D digital impression scanning, and other more patient-friendly devices and techniques to reduce the amount of post-treatment discomfort and gain optimal healing.

There is free parking outside the practice, which is situated between BMW Ocean and Lidl on Falmouth Road in Penryn.

Please click here for further details on directions or call them on 01326 378969 or email reception@watersidedentalcare.co.uk

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Our Policy

At Precision Oral Surgery we are committed to providing the highest quality of care, with patients at the centre of the whole process.

We understand the necessity of good communication and there will always be a complete discussion of treatment options, costs, potential side effects and plenty of opportunity for questions.

Referring practitioners will be kept informed regarding treatment provided and once all necessary care is complete, we will discharge patients back to their dentists. We are always happy to discuss cases via email or telephone if necessary.

Patients views are of the utmost importance to us and feedback is welcomed. Should there be dissatisfaction with any aspect of care, then please see the complaints policy at the Waterside Dentalcare website.

We aim to respond to concerns thoroughly, in a sensitive and caring manner.

The POS clinicians regularly take part in continuing professional development, as outlined by the General Dental Council. In addition to this we partake in courses relevant to our clinical practice in order to ensure all treatment is evidence-based and complies with the latest guidelines.

Our professional registration is with the General Dental Council and we are both members of the Faculty of Dental Surgeons, Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, in addition to the British Association of Oral Surgeons and British Dental Association.