Rate My Professor Alan Nimmo

Professor Alan Nimmo serves as Honorary Professor in the School of Health Sciences within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His office is situated in room SO152 of the Science Offices building at the Ourimbah Campus, located at 10 Chittaway Road, Ourimbah, NSW 2258. Previously, Alan Nimmo held the position of Head of Discipline, Oral Health at the University of Newcastle, where he was consulted as a key stakeholder in the Australian Government's 2022 feasibility study on increasing dental and oral health training in rural and remote Australia. This role underscores his contributions to advancing oral health education and training programs. Contactable at alan.nimmo@newcastle.edu.au or by phone at 0243484395, he maintains an active academic presence affiliated with the university.

Alan Nimmo's academic interests encompass oral health and its links to systemic conditions, dental pharmacology, periodontal disease management, dental trauma response, orthodontic impacts on root structure, and inflammatory processes in oral pathologies. His verified publication record includes significant works such as 'Articaine in dentistry: an overview of the evidence and meta-analysis of the latest randomised controlled trials on articaine safety and efficacy compared to lidocaine for routine dental treatment' (2021), 'A systematic review investigating patient knowledge and awareness on the association between oral health and their systemic condition' (2021), 'Professionally delivered local antimicrobials in the treatment of patients with periodontitis—a narrative review' (2021), 'Knowledge of Australian primary education providers towards dental avulsion injuries: a cross-sectional study' (2020), 'Comparing the periodontal tissue response to non-surgical scaling and root planing alone, adjunctive azithromycin, or adjunctive amoxicillin plus metronidazole in generalized chronic moderate-to-severe periodontitis: a preliminary randomized controlled trial' (2019), 'Identification of inflammatory mediators associated with metastasis of oral squamous cell carcinoma in experimental and clinical studies: systematic review' (2019), and 'Orthodontic mechanotherapies and their influence on external root resorption: a systematic review' (2019). Earlier contributions address neurogenic inflammation, substance P, and tachykinin NK1 receptor antagonists in traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury models. These outputs reflect his influence, with over 2,194 citations documented on ResearchGate. Nimmo also holds employment at the University of Newcastle per ORCID (0000-0002-0718-7934) and currently serves as Professor in the Discipline of Dentistry at James Cook University.