
Professor
Tara, Specialist in Oral Surgery, completed dentistry Guys (1984), OMFS Melbourne University (1991) and a neuroscience PhD at KCL (2003).
Tara established multi collaborative and disciplinary research teams with international repute in third molar surgery, patient safety, trigeminal nerve injury and orofacial pain evidenced by over 250 peer reviewed articles, multiple grant awards, 14 PhD students supervised and H index of 44 (August 2025). She has established two patient facing websites www.Trigeminalnerve.org.uk and www.orofacialpain.org.uk. She is currently trialing a Webapp Faceyourpain.org for online Orofacial Pain Diagnostics.
In this episode, Dr. Linda Bluestein is joined by Professor Tara Renton, a globally recognized expert in orofacial pain, to explore the nuanced world of facial pain, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction, and migraine disorders. Together, they unpack why so many patients are misdiagnosed with T…