Dr Helen Liversidge, B Ch D MSc PhD

Senior Clinical Lecturer

Helen Liversidge qualified in dentistry from  Stellenbosch, South Africa. She worked in general dental practice whilst at the same time completing a PhD at University College London studying with Professor Christopher Dean. She joined Child Oral Health in the Dental Institute, Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1985. 

Publications:

Publications since 2010

Liversidge HM, Marsden PH. 2010. Estimating age and the likelihood of having attained 18 years of age using mandibular third molars. British Dental Journal

Liversidge HM, Smith BH, Maber M. 2010. Bias and accuracy of age estimation using developing teeth in 946 children. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Liversidge HM. 2010. Demirjian stage tooth formation results from a large group of children. Dental Anthropology 23:16-23.

Willems G, Thevissen PW, Belmans A, Liversidge HM. 2010. Willems II. Non-gender specific dental maturity scores. Forensic Science International 201:84-85.

Liversidge HM. 2010. Interpreting differences in Demirjian's dental maturity method. Forensic Science International 205:95-101.  

AlQahtani SJ, Liversidge HM, Hector MP. 2010. The London atlas of human tooth development and eruption. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 142:481-490.

Liversidge HM. 2009. Permanent tooth formation as a method of estimating age. Frontiers Oral Biology. 13:153-7.     

Liversidge HM. 2008. Timing of human mandibular third molar formation. Annals of Human Biology 35:294-321, Errata Annals Human Biology 2008 35:452-3.
Journal link      http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03014460801971445

Liversidge HM. 2008. Predicting mandibular third molar agenesis from second molar formation.  Acta Stomatologica Croatica 42:311-317.

Publications since 2001

Liversidge HM. (2001) A radiographic study of dental eruption. In Dental Morphology 2001. 12th International Symposium of Dental Morphology, ed. A. Brook, pp 49-58. Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press.

Liversidge HM, Speechly T. (2001)  Growth of permanent mandibular teeth of British children aged 4 to 9 years. Annals of Human Biology. 28:256-262 

Liversidge HM, Rogers CEA. (2001) A comparison of later stage dental maturation in a small group of children from Chernobyl and British children. Dental Anthropology 15:1-5

Liversidge HM, Lyons F, Hector MP. (2003) The accuracy of three methods of age estimation using radiographic measurements of developing teeth. Forensic Science International 131:22-29

Liversidge HM. (2003) Chapter: Worldwide variation in human dental development. In: Growth and Development in the Genus Homo. Editors JL Thompson, A Nelson, G Krovitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp 73-113.

Liversidge HM, Molleson T. (2004) Variation in Crown and Root Formation and Eruption of Human Deciduous Teeth. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 123:172-180

McDonnell ST, Liversidge HM, Kinirons M. (2004) Case Report. Temporary arrest of root development in a premolar of a child with hypodontia and extensive caries. International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry 14:455-460.

Liversidge HM. (2004) Chapter: The Dentition. In: The Juvenile Skeleton. Scheuer L and S Black.  London: Elsevier Academic Press. pp 149-180.

Liversidge HM, Kosmidou A, Hector MP, and Roberts GJ. (2005) Dental Developmental age in Epidermolysis Bullosa. International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry 15:335-341.

Uslenghi S, Liversidge HM, Wong FSL. (2005) A radiographic study of tooth development in hypodontia. Archives of oral Biology 51:129-133.

Dhanjal KS,  Bhardwaj MK, Liversidge HM.  (2006) Reproducibility of radiographic stage assessment of third molars. Forensic Science International 159:S74-77.

Maber M, Liversidge HM, M P Hector. (2006)Accuracy of age estimation of radiographic methods using developing teeth. Forensic Science International 159:S68-73.

Liversidge HM, N Chaillet, H Mornstad, M Nystrom, K Rowlings, G Willems. (2006). Timing of Demirjian's tooth formation stages. Annals of Human Biology 33:454-470.

Liversidge HM, Townsend G. (2006). Tooth formation in Australian Aborigines. In: Current Trends in Dental Morphology Research, Editor E. Zadzinska. University of Lodz Press,  pp 405-410. 

Cameriere R, Ferrante L, Liversidge HM, Prieto JL, Brkic H. 2008. Accuracy of age estimation in children using radiograph of developing teeth. Forensic Science  International 176:173-77.

Temoananui R, Kieser JA, Herbison GP, Liversidge HM. (2008). Estimating Age in Maori, Pacific Island, and European Children from New Zealand. Journal of Forensic Sciences 53: doi:10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00643.x, 410-404.

Moananui RT, Kieser JA, Herbison P, Liversidge HM. 2008. Advanced dental maturation in New Zealand Maori and Pacific Island children. American Journal of Human Biology. 20(1):43-50.

Liversidge HM (2008). Dental age revisited. In: Technique and
Application in Dental Anthropology. Ed J. D. Irish and G. C. Nelson. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp234-252.

Liversidge HM (2008). Timing of human third molar formation. Annals of Human Biology 35: 294 – 321
Erratum in: Annals of Human Biology . 2008:35:452-3

Research interests:

Author of 18 peer review articles, chapters in three books, five contributions to International Symposia on Dental Morphology Proceedings. Her main research interest is age assessment using developing teeth, population differences in tooth formation and is collaborated with researchers in South Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Italy, Middle East, Malaysia, Brazil, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and is an associate researcher in the Human Origins section of the Natural History Museum, London. This research has international importance in the field of forensic dentistry and anthropology. During the last five years, she has presented research at 22 national, African, European and International conferences that range from Dental Research, Dental Morphology, Paediatric Dentistry, Physical Anthropology, Forensic Odontology to Human Biology.
Helen teaches undergraduate and postgraduate dental students in clinical paediatric dentistry and has supervised eleven postgraduate research projects (students from England, Greece, Libya, Italy, Thailand, Sudan and United Arab Emirates). All these have presented at national/international meetings and published their results. She has resurrected the London Oral Biology Group which meet several times a year for research meeting and attracts scientists with interests in dental anatomy, physiology, zoology and palaeontology.