Course Calendar

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10:00 Principles of mentoring international dental graduates (formerly called Validation Supervisor Training Day)   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Principles of mentoring international dental graduates (formerly called Validation Supervisor Training Day) (SW-25-01-06-01)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Mon 6 Jan 2025, 10:00 to 16:00
Development outcome: A, B, D
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £85.00
Description: This course is an opportunity to develop your skills to support colleagues who are new to the NHS. This will be an informal day with plenty of time for discussion. Being a mentor is hugely rewarding and a wonderful way to welcome the skills of colleagues form diverse backgrounds into the workforce.

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09:00 Introduction to Critical Appraisal   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Introduction to Critical Appraisal (DCT 2024-25-09)
Venue: Bristol Dental Hospital, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Tue 7 Jan 2025, 09:00 to 13:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: Lecture
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 4:00 hours
Cost: No charge

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18:30 Occlusion not Confusion   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Occlusion not Confusion (SW-25-01-08-01)
Venue: Webex, .... - N/A - Virtual
Date: Wed 8 Jan 2025, 18:30 to 19:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:00 hour
Cost: £15.00
Description: This one hour webinar session will cover assessing the occlusion quickly and going on to fix basic problems (tooth wear, cracked tooth syndrome, TMJ pain) easily with reversible, non-aerosol generating procedures. Professor Brian Millar aims to help the dental team in practicing non-cutting, more adhesive dentistry techniques, getting the occlusion right without the need to adjust and polish, under rubber dam. This is a demonstration webinar. There will not be a power point presentation but a workbook will be available to accompany the online session. This webinar is a repeat of part of a series provided by Brian Millar. It can be booked as a stand alone session.

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19:00 Pulpitis reclassification and vital pulp therapy   Availability: Places available
Title: Pulpitis reclassification and vital pulp therapy (SW25-01-14)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Tue 14 Jan 2025, 19:00 to 20:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:30 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: This evening is a great opportunity to get to grips with pulpitis. We will be joined virtually by Alexander Brett. Alex will be discussing the reclassification of pulpitis and the implications this has for management. We will consider diagnosis, how we might manage pulpitis with modern vital pulp therapy, and the importance of monitoring complete pulpotomies.

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19:00 New to the Southwest and working towards your Performer Number?   Availability: Only 2 places available
Title: New to the Southwest and working towards your Performer Number? (SW25-01-16-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Thu 16 Jan 2025, 19:00 to 20:00
Development outcome: D
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:00 hour
Cost: No charge
Description: New to the Southwest and working towards your Performer Number? - This informal session is for dentists in the Southwest who are working toward their Performer Numbers (PN). Please join Malcolm and Lucy for an opportunity to ask questions and discuss anything relating to working in the NHS, clinical cases and completing your Agreement Terms . Whilst we might not have all the answers, we can point you in the right direction! This will be a small group, online meeting that we are planning to repeat each month. It's a chance for you to interact with colleagues who may well be facing the same issues as you. Following the discussions we had last time, we will be joined by Chris Bell (Chair of the Southwest Oral Surgery MCN). Chris has kindly agreed to discuss the who, where, and how of making referrals in our region. We have all experienced the frustration of rejected referrals – if this has happened to you, and you are willing to share your referral to help us learn why (anonymously) please get in touch. Lucy.silk3@nhs.net

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18:30 Restoration of the root filled tooth   Availability: Fully booked
Title: Restoration of the root filled tooth (SW-25-01-20-01)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Mon 20 Jan 2025, 18:30 to 20:30
Development outcome: A, C, D
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: This online course will explain how to restore the endodontically treated tooth with composite, conventional crowns, onlays and post crowns. Rahat is a consultant restorative dentist at Liverpool Dental Hospital and works in practice dealing in endodontics. His courses are always well received and enthusiastically delivered.

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19:00 Antimicrobial Prescribing, Resistance and Stewardship   Availability: Places available
Title: Antimicrobial Prescribing, Resistance and Stewardship (SW-25-01-21-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Tue 21 Jan 2025, 19:00 to 20:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:30 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: Join us for an evening exploring the latest evidence and guidance on antimicrobial prescribing, resistance and stewardship with Dr Nikolai Stankiewicz. Nikolai is the dental representative for the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Antimicrobial Stewardship Collaboration and will lead us in considering the dental team's role in protecting patients from antibiotic resistance, explore our options for prescribing in practice and identify resources for delivering antimicrobial stewardship in practice. This lecture will be based on the latest regulations, guidance and prescriber competency framework for antimicrobial prescribing.

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18:30 Interpreting Intra-Oral and Extra-Oral Radiographs   Availability: Fully booked
Title: Interpreting Intra-Oral and Extra-Oral Radiographs (SW-25-01-22-01)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Wed 22 Jan 2025, 18:30 to 20:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: This is a refresher course on our diagnostic interpretation skills of intra-oral and extra-oral radiographs taken in practice. It will enable us to distinguish the normal from the abnormal. The course will also cover how to set up a radiographic audit in line with general dental council expectations. The course will be led by Linda Parrott who has a special interest in the subject and will use projected digital images covering normal anatomy, pathology and the more unusual. This course is especially important to refresh diagnostic skills.

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09:00 Oral Surgery - complications and management (plusDiscussion forum about Oral surgery training and pathways)   Availability: Places available
Title: Oral Surgery - complications and management (plusDiscussion forum about Oral surgery training and pathways) (DCT 2024-25-14)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Tue 28 Jan 2025, 09:00 to 12:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Core topics
CPD: 3:30 hours
Cost: No charge

18:30 TMD – what a pain   Availability: Places available
Title: TMD – what a pain (SW-2025-01-28-01)
Venue: Webex, .... - N/A - Virtual
Date: Tue 28 Jan 2025, 18:30 to 19:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:00 hour
Cost: £15.00
Description: An hour long webinar on identifying and managing TMD (temporomandibular disorder), this very common condition in your practice, from first visit help through to splint treatments. Prof. Brian Millar is repeating his popular demonstration webinar. There will not be a power point presentation but a workbook will be available to accompany the online session.

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19:00 Skin Cancer for the Dental Team   Availability: Places available
Title: Skin Cancer for the Dental Team (SW25-01-29-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Wed 29 Jan 2025, 19:00 to 20:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:30 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: Dental professionals are in a unique position to spot lesions that appear on our patients faces, scalps, ears and lips. We have a responsibility to notice these changes. Ben Collard (Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon, Torbay) will be updating us on the diagnosis, referral and contemporary management of skin lesions.