BSP Dentine Hypersensitivity Clinical Practice Guideline Workshop
BSP Dentine Hypersensitivity Clinical Practice Guideline
In September 2025, Professor Nicola West led a BSP initiative to create a global S3 Level Dentine Hypersensitivity Practice Guideline. The aim was to provide oral-healthcare professionals all over the world with precise therapeutic pathways based on individual patient diagnoses and make recommendations on specific interventions to get the best possible treatment results for patients with dentine hypersensitivity.
An expert team finalised Systematic Review and PICO(T)s on the following topics:
- Group 1: Aetiology Tooth wear DH (Led by Prof Anderson Hara, Indiana USA)
- Group 2: Aetiology Recession (Led by Prof Anton Sculean, Bern, Switzerland)
- Group 3: Trial Design (Stimuli DH) (Led by Dr Alex Pollard, Bristol, UK)
- Group 4: Lived Experience (Led by Prof Koula Asimakopoulou, Oxford Brookes, UK)
- Group 5: QoL and pain (Led by Prof Barry Gibson Sheffield, UK)
- Group 6: Home Treatment of DH (Led by Dr Alex Gormley , Bristol, UK)
- Group 7: Professional Treatment (Led by Dr Joshua Twigg, Leeds UK)
Consensus meetings were held at Kew Gardens to discuss the outcomes. The meeting consisted of a diverse and inclusive range of Oral Healthcare professionals (Dental Nurses, Hygienists, Therapists, General Practitioners, Academics, private and NHS Specialists), external medical, behavioural & science colleagues, (e.g. pain experts, QoL experts) stakeholder representatives and Patient Forum members. The BSP was delighted to engage the services of Professor Ina Kopp to moderate the whole process, as she has extensive experience in leading, strengthening and supporting international collaborations in guideline development.
We expect the paper to be published in January 2026 in Perio 2000, with open access. Once the paper has been published, Haleon has kindly agreed to support BSP and strengthen the reach of our dissemination to ensure the clinician’s ability to use and apply the evidence and increase patient motivation.
