Practical Paediatrics (PO0061125)

Speaker Fiona Sandom

Fiona qualified as a Dental Hygienist from Manchester Dental Hospital in 1993 and as a Dental Therapist in 1999 from Liverpool University Dental Hospital, in 2013 gained her MSc in Medical Education from Cardiff University, and her Doctorate from Bangor University in 2023.

She currently works part-time in a busy NHS Practice, as DPSU Lead and North Wales Regional Lead for Health Education and Improvement Wales and at Bangor University as a Lecturer.

She is an Education Associate for the GDC and an Examiner for the RCS Edinburgh and a past President of the British Association of Dental Therapists. She has been fortunate to work as a dental therapist in practice, in the hospital, the community dental service, and in personal dental service, and has an interest in treating anxious patients with Inhalation Sedation. She has been awarded two Oral and Dental Research Trust DCP Awards, in 2013 and 2015. She currently working on the proposal for the use of exemptions in medicines legislation by dental hygienists and dental therapists across the United Kingdom and is the current Chair of the British Association of Dental Therapists.

Fiona is an Associate Fellow of the Faculty of Dental Trainers and a Fellow of the Dental Trainer Faculty of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. and of the College of General Dentistry and sits on the “Dental Update” Editorial Board.

Course Timings

9.00 Registration

9.15 Introduction of speakers and to the day

9.20 Practical Paediatric Dentistry

10.45 Break

11.15 Practical Paediatric Dentistry

12.30 Lunch (Lunch is not provided)

13.15 SSCs, Pulpotomies and XLA Hands-on

14.30 Break

15.00 SSCs, Pulpotomies and XLA Hands-on

16.30 Q&A and Close

Dental Therapists 

Recommended to all

To update the audience on the care of the child patient in general practice

Discuss and practice the management and treatment of caries in the primary dentition following evidenced based guidelines.

Understand the priorities when treating children

Know how to prioritise care for the child patient

Understand how to manage pain in primary teeth

Be aware of evidence based prevention methods

Be able to carry out pulpotomies on primary teeth,

Be able to place preformed metal crowns on primary teeth

Understand the principles of extracting primary teeth.