A specialist in oral surgery with a particular interest in trigeminal nerve injuries and pain, Professor Tara Renton led the teaching of dental students modernising the oral surgical teaching with minimal access approach and modern LA techniques. She has established an academic oral surgery training programme for Academic Oral Surgery SpRs and in collaboration with IoPPN KCL and Imperial College Tara has established an international leading programme of trigeminal nerve injury and orofacial pain research and co-edited the BDA clinical manuals for Oral Surgery Books I and II. Tara has set up two patient facing websites first a patient lead initiative resulted in the development of the Trigeminalnerve.org.uk a website advising both patients and clinicians in preventing and managing iatrogenic nerve injury in relation to dentistry and a website for patients with chronic trigeminal pain.