Dr Ginny Kingsmill, BDS PhD FDSRCS (Rest Dent)
Clinical Senior Lecturer
Ginny Kingsmill qualified in dentistry from the United Medical and Dental Schools (Guy’s) in 1991. After a year in hospital jobs she did a PhD in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London under the supervision of Professor Alan Boyde. She became a lecturer in the Centre of Adult Oral Health at Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1996, being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002 and completing Specialist Training in Restorative Dentistry in 2003.
Author of 18 peer reviewed articles, her PhD showed that the mandible is highly resistant to osteoporosis. Current research continues to investigate differences that exist between the mandible and other bones. In 2002 she was the first non-medically qualified researcher to receive a Clinician Scientist Award from the Department of Health. Total grant funding to date exceeds £540,000.
She has acted as a referee for many journals and was invited lecturer at the International Association for Dental Research Conference in Gøteborg 2003.
She has taught all years of undergraduate dental students from the first to the final year as well as dental therapy students. Subjects taught include conservative dentistry, dental emergency clinic, sedation, periodontology and prosthetic dentistry.
Publications:
Kingsmill VJ, Boyde A, Davis GR, Howell PGT, Rawlinson SCF (2010) Changes in bone mineral and matrix in response to a soft diet. Journal of Dental Research 89:510-514.
Rawlinson SCF, McKay IJ, Ghuman MS, Wellmann C, Ryan P, Prajaneh S, Zaman G, Hughes FJ, Kingsmill VJ (2009) Adult rat bones maintain distinct regionalized expression of markers associated with their development. PLoS ONE. Paper available online at http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008358.
Rawlinson SCF, Boyde A, Davis GR, Howell PGT, Hughes FJ, Kingsmill VJ (2009) Ovariectomy vs hypofunction: their effects on rat mandibular bone. Journal of Dental Research. 88:615-20.
Kingsmill VJ, Gray CM, Moles DR & Boyde A (2007) Cortical vascular canals in human mandible and other bones. Journal of Dental Research 86:368-372.
Kingsmill VJ, Berkovitz BKB & Barrett AW (2005) Merkel cell density in gingival mucosa from dentate and edentulous subjects. Archives of Oral Biology 50: 883-887.
Kingsmill VJ & Boyde A (2001) Collagen fibre orientation affects osteoclastic resorption. Journal of Dental Research 80:2085-2088.
Kingsmill VJ, Gray C & Boyde A (2000) Osteoclastic resorption of equine cranial and postcranial bone in vitro. Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism 18:148-152.
Kingsmill VJ, Boyde A & Jones SJ (1999) The resorption of vital and devitalized bone in vitro: significance for bone grafts. Calcified Tissue International 64:252-256.
Kingsmill VJ & Boyde A (1999) Mineralisation density and apparent density of bone in cranial and postcranial sites in the ageing human. Osteoporosis International 9:260-268.
Kingsmill VJ (1999) Postextraction remodelling of the adult mandible. Critical Reviews in Oral Biology and Medicine 10:384-404.
Barrett AW, Kingsmill VJ & Speight PM (1998) The frequency of fungal infection in oral mucosal lesions. Oral Diseases 4:26-31.
Kingsmill VJ & Boyde A (1998) Variation in the apparent density of human mandibular bone with age and dental status. Journal of Anatomy 192:233-244.
Kingsmill VJ & Boyde A (1998) Mineralisation density of human mandibular bone: quantitative backscattered electron image analysis. Journal of Anatomy 192:245-256.
Kingsmill VJ, Jones SJ & Boyde A (1998) Mineralisation density of aged human mandibular bone. Biological Mechanisms of Tooth Eruption, Resorption and Replacement by Implants. Edited by Davidovitch Z & Mah J, pp. 167-171.
Boyde A & Kingsmill V (1998) Age changes in bone. Gerodontology 15:25-34.
Kingsmill VJ, Boyde A, Kathirgamanathan P (1994) Electroless plating - a new technique for the preparation of hard tissue specimens for scanning electron microscopy. Scanning 16:18-20.
Porter SR, Kingsmill V, Scully C (1993) Audit of diagnosis and investigations in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology 76:449-452.
Kingsmill V (1991) Chronic periodontitis in an eighteenth century population. British Dental Journal 170:118-120.