Lecturer Details: Dental Nurse Forum - Educator role and paths to progression in Dental Nursing.

Lecturer nameMrs Anita Stanforth
Lecturer profileAnita qualified at the Eastman Dental Hospital in 1978, additionally achieving a Merit grade in the NEBDSA examination. She remained at the Eastman for the next eleven years, progressing to Senior Dental Nurse and finally to Dental Nurse Tutor, having gained the City and Guilds Further Education Teachers Certificate in 1981. After a maternity break, Anita returned to work as a part time dental nurse in her local area, gaining experience in a wide variety of dental practices, both NHS and private as well as working in a sedation/GA clinic.
She graduated in 2016 in the first cohort of the FDSc Advanced Dental Nursing, and joined the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Healthcare Trust as Mouth Care Matters Lead later that year, having trained at the East Surrey Hospital with Special Needs Dentistry consultant Mili Doshi and her team. Anita remains in post at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Hospitals and is currently working with the Speech and Language Therapy team.