Course Calendar

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09:45 Sedation, venipuncture and cannulation update   Availability: Fully booked
Title: Sedation, venipuncture and cannulation update (SW-25-11-05-01)
Venue: Exeter Dental Education Facility, Exeter - Devon N & E
Date: Wed 5 Nov 2025, 09:45 to 16:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 5:30 hours
Cost: £175.00
Description: Please join us for an interactive and practical update day on IV sedation, cannulation and venepuncture. The course is suitable for all members of the team providing sedation as part of the requirements for the recommended 12 hours of sedation-related verifiable CPD in each 5 year cycle. Theory sessions will cover patient assessment, safety and cannulation tips and tricks and how to manage those difficult situations. Hands on activities will include cannulation practice on training arms then an opportunity to practice on each other in a clinical setting in the Exeter Dental Education Clinical Teaching Facility. Chris Bell and Tim Harris have a wealth of experience in dental IV sedation and share their top tips in a relaxed atmosphere. This will be a relatively small group.

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09:30 DCP Engagement Event - Head and Neck Cancer Awareness   Availability: Only 7 places available
Title: DCP Engagement Event - Head and Neck Cancer Awareness (SW-25-11-06-01)
Venue: Rosa Bale Lecture Theatre - John Bull Building, University of Plymouth, Plymouth - Devon S & W
Date: Thu 6 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 15:30
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: We are delighted to invite all Dental Care Professionals working across the South West to attend our second DCP networking day. This is another fantastic opportunity to meet like-minded DCPs across the region and to hear talks from leaders of oral health across the South West. For this session we have a fantastic line up of speakers, all focusing on the DCPs role in supporting patients with head and neck cancer.

09:30 Modern Management of Dental Trauma   Availability: Fully booked
Title: Modern Management of Dental Trauma (SW25-11-06)
Venue: Future Inn Hotel, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Thu 6 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 16:30
Development outcome: B, C
Course style: Lecture with table top practice elements
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £95.00
Description: Dr Serpil Djemal, founder of the charity Dental Trauma UK, will be coming to the South West to deliver 'Modern Management of Dental Trauma'. Serpil will be helping us manage trauma cases with more confidence, considering a-traumatic techniques and long term planning for these patients. We will be discussing consent and the need for effective communication when managing patients presenting with dental trauma. She will illustrate the day with real cases depicting fracture and luxation injuries and how they are managed.

20:00 Extra Help with Dental Extractions: Patient Assessment and Principles   Availability: Fully booked
Title: Extra Help with Dental Extractions: Patient Assessment and Principles (SW25-11-06-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
2 Sessions: Starting on Thu 6 Nov 2025 at 20:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: £60.00
Description: Rick Kerr (Senior Surgeon) and the team from Exeter, will be joining us virtually for a unique opportunity to offer help to those of us that find dental extractions challenging. This is the first of a two part course. This small group will enable the learning needs of all participants to be addressed. Rick is happy to look at radiographs and discuss cases with participants. Over the two sessions we will be considering what is appropriate in general practice, important patient and medical factors, practical challenges, key instruments and the principles of sectioning teeth, elevating roots and when and how to raise a flap.

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19:00 Bullying and malocclusion-is there a link?   Availability: Places available
Title: Bullying and malocclusion-is there a link? (SW-25-11-11-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Tue 11 Nov 2025, 19:00 to 20:00
Development outcome: A
Course style: Webinar
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:00 hour
Cost: £15.00
Description: Please join us to hear from Manpreet Gakhal, Orthodontist on the effects of malocclusion in regards to bullying. This course is open to all dental workforce.

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09:30 Planning your Community Engagement Project   Availability: Places available
Title: Planning your Community Engagement Project (FD43889)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Thu 13 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 13:00
Development outcome: A, B, D
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: A range of speakers will encourage and advise on how to carry out this years CEP.

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15:30 Resin Bonded Bridges   Availability: Only 10 places available
Title: Resin Bonded Bridges (SW25-11-14-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Fri 14 Nov 2025, 15:30 to 17:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: Claire Forbes-Hayley (Consultant in Restorative Dentistry) will be joining us online, to persuade busy dentists that Resin Bonded Bridges are a viable option to replace missing teeth. We will be discussing case selection, bridge design, success.....failure and the practicalities of how to place and adjust resin bonded bridges. There will be plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion. All members of the dental team are very welcome. This course will be particularly useful for those of us whose undergraduate training only touched on this subject. Suitable for dentists working toward their Performer Number.

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19:00 NHS Dorset Oral Health Programme   Availability: Places available
Title: NHS Dorset Oral Health Programme (DORSETICB44003)
Venue: Health Sciences University Parkwood Campus, Bournemouth - Dorchester & W Dorset
Date: Mon 17 Nov 2025, 19:00 to 21:00
Development outcome: A, D
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: The evening will include: a free CPD session on safeguarding and children in care in Dorset; an update on Dorset's Oral Health Programme, including the work on improving access to NHS dental care, the support for broader opportunities to prevent dental disease and the development of an Oral Health Institute for Dorset. There will be opportunities for you to ask questions and the evening will end with a chance to network and enjoy some refreshments.

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18:00 Antimicrobial Prescribing, Resistance and Stewardship   Availability: Places available
Title: Antimicrobial Prescribing, Resistance and Stewardship (SW-25-11-18-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Tue 18 Nov 2025, 18:00 to 20:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: Join us for an evening exploring the latest evidence and guidance on antimicrobial prescribing, resistance and stewardship with Dr Nikolai Stankiewicz and Liam Shaw. 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. Liam is a biologist at the University of Bristol who is researching the evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance and is the author of the recently published 'Dangerous Miracle - A Natural History of Antibiotics - and how we burned through them'.

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09:30 Partial Dentures   Availability: Fully booked
Title: Partial Dentures (SW25-11-19-01)
Venue: Future Inn Hotel, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Wed 19 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 16:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £95.00
Description: Please join us in Bristol for a full day devoted to partial dentures. Lizzie King (Consultant Senior Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry at Bristol Dental Hospital) will be exploring anatomy, materials, components, mouth preparation, design and delivery. We will be designing dentures, with plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion.

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08:30 OMFS Simulation Day   Availability: Fully booked
Title: OMFS Simulation Day (DCT 2025-26 07)
Venue: Southmead Hospital, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Mon 24 Nov 2025, 08:30 to 17:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: Improve DCTs ability to instigate initial care in unwell OMFS patients while escalating to seniors appropriately

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18:30 Occlusion not Confusion   Availability: Places available
Title: Occlusion not Confusion (SW-25-11-25-01)
Venue: Webex, .... - N/A - Virtual
Date: Tue 25 Nov 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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09:30 Foundations of Minor Oral Surgery for the General Dental Practitioner   Availability: Fully booked
Title: Foundations of Minor Oral Surgery for the General Dental Practitioner (SW25-11-26-01)
Venue: Exeter Dental Education Facility, Exeter - Devon N & E
Date: Wed 26 Nov 2025, 09:30 to 16:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £200.00
Description: This hands-on course is a fabulous opportunity for dentists to practice their MOS skills using anatomical models. Pippa and Simon will be covering effective use of elevators, forceps , case selection, flap design, bone removal suturing and suturing using anatomical models for hands on practice. This will be a small group (no more than twelve dentists) with lots of opportunity for questions and discussion.

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09:00 How to take good intra-oral radiographs and OPT'S   Availability: Only 2 places available
Title: How to take good intra-oral radiographs and OPT'S (SW-25-11-29-01)
Venue: Dental Radiography Room - Derriford Hospital, Plymouth - Devon S & W
Date: Sat 29 Nov 2025, 09:00 to 12:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Radiography and radiation protection
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: £70.00
Description: This course is primarily aimed at applicants who are working towards attaining their Performer Number. However all members of the dental team who can take radiographs within their scope of practice who would like to refresh their skills are welcome. If you are having trouble with OPT'S or using the paralleling technique for intra-oral radiographs or just want to confirm that you are doing it correctly, Tim Huckstep, Radiographer in the Dental Departments of Derriford Hospital will guide you through! Bring your own kit and he will be able to give you tips on how to get the best out of your equipment.

13:00 How to take good intra-oral radiographs and OPT'S   Availability: Fully booked
Title: How to take good intra-oral radiographs and OPT'S (SW-25-11-29-02)
Venue: Dental Radiography Room - Derriford Hospital, Plymouth - Devon S & W
Date: Sat 29 Nov 2025, 13:00 to 16:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Radiography and radiation protection
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: £70.00
Description: This course is aimed at applicants who are working towards attaining their Performer Number or any members of the oral health care team who would like to refresh their skills. If you are having trouble with OPT'S or using the paralleling technique for intra-oral radiographs or just want to confirm that you are doing it correctly, Tim Huckstep, Radiographer in the Dental Departments of Derriford Hospital will guide you through! Bring your own kit (film holders) and he will be able to give you tips on how to get the best out of your equipment.