Justin Durham: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- professor of orofacial pain at Newcastle University and the British Dental Association's chief scientific adviser
- Quoted on
- Dentistry access
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
“We have to use diamond-tipped burrs running at greater than 40,000 revolutions a minute to get through the outer surface of the tooth in modern-day dentistry. So this is quite a phenomenal achievement, which is why I take my hat off to the Neanderthal who did it.”
Where Justin Durham has been quoted
- Neanderthals used stone drills to treat cavities 59,000 years ago, tooth suggeststheguardian.com · 10 Sept 2026
Related media coverage
Recent UK press coverage of their topics — not necessarily citing them directly.
Professors, researchers and think-tank analysts quoted on the strength of their research rather than a clinical role. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 10 Sept 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.