Mr Adams graduated from Newcastle University Medical School in 2009 with Honours and before that from the University of Leeds School of Dentistry, also with Honours, in 2003. He was the recipient of the Goyder Memorial Scholarship Prize in Medicine and Surgery and the Charlton Scholarship in Medicine Prize during his final Medical School MBBS exams. He did his Foundation Doctor training in Harrogate in 2009-2010 before undertaking Core Surgical Training in West Yorkshire with 6 month posts in General Surgery, ENT, Orthopaedics and Plastic Surgery.

After obtaining his Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons by examination, he obtained a Specialty Registrar training post in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery, rotating through Bradford, Hull, York and Leeds. He was first appointed as a Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon in Bradford in 2017. In 2022 he was recruited by York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and works at both York Hospital and Harrogate District Hospital.

Mr Adams is Clinical Lead of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Harrogate Hospital. He is also a member of Skin Cancer Multidisciplinary Team at Harrogate, where he has a weekly NHS operating list removing and reconstructing head and neck skin cancers. His General Clinics run three times a week there. His NHS practice in York centres on Orthognathic Surgery, which is surgical correction of facial and growth anomalies of the jaws such as severe over- and under-bites, in conjunction with brace treatment of the teeth by his Consultant Orthodontist colleagues. He has also treated facial trauma and severe head and neck infections as part of his on-call work. He was the York Maxillofacial Department’s Clinical Governance (Quality Assurance and Improvement) Lead from 2022 to 2025.

Mr Adams is deeply engaged in medical education and clinical mentorship. He is involved in training Resident doctors in the region and has acted as an Educational Supervisor to Foundation Doctors, Core Trainees and Registrars. He has run courses on the principles of Cutaneous Surgery of the Head and Neck for both Surgical trainees as well as GPs who perform minor surgery, and on Orthognathic Surgery for the region’s surgical registrars training to be Consultants. He has also been involved in the selection of candidates for, and the teaching of medical students at, Hull York Medical School. Between 2016 and 2022 he was an Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructor. He has presented at both National and International level and has published in the Scientific Literature.

Mr Adams places great importance on the relationship he builds with each patient, and this is borne out in consistently high praise from both patients and colleagues for his compassionate, approachable manner. This has been reflected in his very high scores in the various domains of patient and colleague feedback, undertaken as part of his revalidation with the General Medical Council. It has been clear to his appraisers from these and the free text comments provided, that he is, "a well-respected…clinician who is held in high regard by patients and colleagues."

Mr Adams lives near Harrogate with his family and in his spare time enjoys cycling and running at a competitive level. He has competed for Great Britain at Masters Level at Triathlon, Duathlon and Cycling.

Clinical Interests

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons treat conditions of the mouth, facial skeleton and skin of the head and neck region. 

Mr Adams’s specialist interests include:
• Surgical removal of teeth (including wisdom teeth) and treatment of cysts of the jaws.
• Removal of benign lumps and cysts of the mouth.
• Surgery for benign skin lumps and Skin Cancers of the Head and Neck.
• Basic treatment of conditions affecting the Temporomandibular (jaw) Joints and associated muscles including Botox injections to the masticatory (chewing) muscles and Arthrocentesis (jaw joint washout).
• Investigation and Treatment of conditions of the Salivary Glands.
• Treatment of recurrent mouth ulcers and other conditions of the mouth such as Lichen Planus.

Website

www.aidanjohnadams.co.uk