Dental Therapy Forum- Utilising Dental Therapy In Practice (SOWEB250424)

Speaker Cat Edney 

Multi award winning Dental Therapist Cat Edney has over fifteen years experience working as a Dental therapist in specialist and private practice. In this time, she has developed a passion for multidisciplinary team working in the Dental Setting - with a focus on maximising the use of the full dental team to ensure profitability alongside patient care and engagement. Cat lectures nationally as a clinical educator for NSK, is part of the Smile Dental Academy faculty and has developed hands on dental courses under her training brand ‘The Modern Therapist’ which aims to educate the dental profession about the role and integration of Dental Therapy, alongside focusing on providing gold standard hands on training and ongoing support to dental teams.

*Webinar delivered via MS Teams, joining instructions will be sent to you at least 24 hours before the course starts. *Please log in early to check Link/IT. Sign in using your Deanery/Maxcourse registered name - it helps us to confirm your attendance. Log onto to Webinar from 18:45. Course starts at 19:00 and finishes at 20:30. Please contact the organising Tutor Georgina Worsfold georgina-sarah.worsfold@nhs.net with any questions prior to the webinar. *PLEASE CHECK YOUR JUNK FOLDER FOR THE WEB LINK, PARTICULARLY IF YOU HAVE A HOTMAIL ACCOUNT.

Dental Therapists

Recommended to all

To empower Dental Therapists to work to their full scope of practice by increasing knowledge and confidence.

To enable Dental Therapists to understand the different ways in which a Dental Therapist can be successfully implemented in practice.

To revise and review the role of a dental therapists and the scope of practice.

To discuss the benefits a dental therapist can bring to a practice, how they can promote themselves and the role.

To explain the way in which a dental therapist can be utilized and how to implement this successfully into practice.

To discuss how to navigate conversations within both the dental team and with patients.

To outline common barriers therapists may face, and how to overcome these?

To discuss the ways in which a dental therapist can increase their clinical skills, knowledge and confidence.

Delegates will be confident in the role of a dental therapist and the benefits one can bring to the dental team.

Delegates will have an increased knowledge in the ways a Dental Therapist can be utilized and how this could be implemented.

Delegate will be able to confidently engage in conversations with both the dental team and patients to explain the role and the benefits of a dental therapist.

Delegates will have increased confidence to overcome common barriers faced when working in practice.