Dr Laura O’Sullivan

Dr Laura O’Sullivan qualified with an honours degree from Cork University Dental School in 2009, receiving a number of undergraduate awards including Title of College Scholar two years running, as well as the prestigious Leo Heslin medal awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons in 2008.

As well as spending a number of years working in general practice, she has held several busy hospital posts in oral surgery in Cardiff, Nottingham and Dublin. She returned to Cork in 2018 to complete her specialist training, graduating with a first class honours doctorate in oral surgery.

Dr O’Sullivan has published numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals, and has presented her research at national and international meetings. She was awarded the Members’ Prize at the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons conference in 2017, and first prize in the research category at the 2021 conference of the British Association of Oral Surgeons. She is actively involved in teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate dental students, and is an invited reviewer with the Journal of the Irish Dental Association and British Dental Journal.

Dr O’Sullivan provides a full range of oral surgery services at Citygate Specialist Practice. She is a fully participating provider with VHI, Laya, Irish Life and Garda Medical Aid. Treatment is available for anxious patients under intravenous conscious sedation.

Services provided:

• Routine and surgical extractions, including wisdom teeth and other impacted teeth
• Pre-orthodontic surgery
• Pre-prosthetic surgery
• Management of cysts
• Soft tissue biopsy
• Surgical endodontics
• Frenectomy (tongue-tie and labial fraenum)