Francis O’Neill
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Oral Surgery
Contact: foneill@liverpool.ac.uk
Main research interests
Clinically, I have a subspecialty interest in facial pain. My research interests are in the diagnosis and management of facial pain, the use of novel diagnostic tests, the pathophysiology of chronic pain, and the use of central and peripheral neuromodulation in the treatment of chronic pain.
Biography
I qualified in Dentistry from the University of Glasgow and in Medicine from Keele University. I have also completed a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh in mechanisms of trigeminal and spinal neuropathic pain. I trained in Liverpool in foundation medicine and completed my specialist training in oral surgery in 2015.
I am currently a senior lecturer/honorary consultant in Oral Surgery at the University of Liverpool. While I am mostly based at the Liverpool University Dental Hospital, I am also a member of the Walton Centre, multidisciplinary facial pain clinic.
Ongoing studies
- Utility of corneal confocal microscopy in burning mouth syndrome. O’Neill F, Marshall A.
- Developing a model to evaluate C-tactile fibre contribution to allodynia and for testing new topical medications. O’Neill F, Marshall A, McGlone F.
- Registry trial investigating sphenopalatine ganglion stimulation for the treatment of cluster headache.
- Recent - evaluation of a home-based transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) treatment device for chronic pain, a randomised controlled trial.