Course Calendar

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09:45 Impression Taking for DCPs session 2 OSCE   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Impression Taking for DCPs session 2 OSCE (SW12-01-07-1)
Venue: Mount Wise Dental Practice, Devonport - Devon S & W
Date: Sat 7 Jan 2012, 09:45 to 13:00
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: No charge

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09:00 When Patients Bite Back!   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: When Patients Bite Back! (SW12-01-10-1)
Venue: Postgraduate Medical Education Centre, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth - Bournemouth & E Dorset
Date: Tue 10 Jan 2012, 09:00 to 16:30
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £35.00
Description: Effective Patient Complaint Handling and Staying Confident

13:45 Your Get Out of Jail Card - Free   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Your Get Out of Jail Card - Free (SW12-01-10-2)
Venue: Lyngford House, Taunton - Somerset
Date: Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:45 to 17:00
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: £8.00
Description: Dr. Richard Birkin is the Head of Regional Services, British Dental Association This course examines why and how dentists and their practices are monitored. It aims to make the dental team aware of how their quality and performance are currently monitored. Future monitoring, inspection plans and risk profiling by the CQC will be discussed. The importance of good record keeping will be stressed. Explanations of what a new GDS contract may look like will be covered.

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09:30 Guide to the Guidelines - Safe To treat in practice?   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Guide to the Guidelines - Safe To treat in practice? (SW12-01-11-3)
Venue: Phantom Head Room-Derriford Hospital, Plymouth - Devon S & W
Date: Wed 11 Jan 2012, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £30.00
Description: A seminar/small group course enabling practitioners to be aware of current guidelines so ensuring patient safety.

13:30 Stainless Steel Crowns, including the Hall technique   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Stainless Steel Crowns, including the Hall technique (SW12-01-11-2)
Venue: Clinical Skills Lab, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Wed 11 Jan 2012, 13:30 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: £25.00
Description: The Hall technique involves sealing caries into primary molars with a pre-formed metal crown (PMC) No LA, tooth preparation or caries removal is required.

14:00 Safeguarding Children for the Dental Team   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Safeguarding Children for the Dental Team (SW12-01-11-1)
Venue: Lyngford House, Taunton - Somerset
Date: Wed 11 Jan 2012, 14:00 to 16:45
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:45 hours
Cost: £5.00
Description: Gill Munro is a Designated Consultant Nurse for Safeguarding Children. The session includes lectures, group activities, case studies and scenarios with opportunities for both questions and discussion.

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09:30 Safeguarding children and young people (Level 2)   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Safeguarding children and young people (Level 2) (SW12-01-13-1)
Venue: Custom Dental Ceramics, Newton Abbott - Devon S & W
Date: Fri 13 Jan 2012, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: New regulations and in particular ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children 2010’ regarding child protection makes it the entire dental team's responsibility! This one day course covers aspects of safeguarding children and other vulnerable people up to level 2.

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14:00 Mad, Sad or Bad? Psychiatric Disorders in Dental Practice   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Mad, Sad or Bad? Psychiatric Disorders in Dental Practice (SW12-01-17-1)
Venue: Lyngford House, Taunton - Somerset
Date: Tue 17 Jan 2012, 14:00 to 17:00
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: £7.00
Description: The aim of the course is to describe psychiatric disorders and their relation to dental practice in order to help manage patients with the broad range of psychological illnesses.

17:30 Porcelain Veneers   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Porcelain Veneers (SW12-01-17-3)
Venue: Clinical Skills Lab, Devon - Devon S & W
Date: Tue 17 Jan 2012, 17:30 to 20:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: A small hands-on/practical study group evening session, to update your skills and knowledge on "Porcelain Veneers" Lectured by Mr Anthony Vaughan, Consultant in Restorative Dentistry.

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14:00 Forensic Dentistry - Success is a Funeral   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Forensic Dentistry - Success is a Funeral (SW12-01-19-1)
Venue: Thomas Sydenham Education Centre, Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester - Dorchester & W Dorset
Date: Thu 19 Jan 2012, 14:00 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:30 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: As there was a waiting list for this popular course, it is being run again. It is an afternoon seminar for dentists and DCPs which includes demonstrations and some group work. A cold buffet lunch will be provided prior to the course commencing. Our speaker says that "dental ID plays a vital role in the identification of victims of mass disaster. It is important that we work together with the investigating authorities and other scientific disciplines to arrive at the correct decision - we cannot allow mistakes to occur." The advantages and disadvantages of dental ID will be discussed as will the mortuary, comparison and legal processes involved, with numerous references to transport and natural disasters from the speaker's own casework.

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08:45 Update and Refresh 3: Paediatric Dentistry for the GDP   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Update and Refresh 3: Paediatric Dentistry for the GDP (SW12-01-20-1)
Venue: Burwalls Education Centre, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Fri 20 Jan 2012, 08:45 to 16:30
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 7:00 hours
Cost: £35.00
Description: This, the third of 4 courses, is designed to provide busy clinicians with a concise, but thought provoking overview of current knowledge and clinical practice in most aspects of Paediatric Dentistry. The team of Specialist presenters from Bristol Dental Hospital includes Jane Luker, Deborah Franklin and Nikki Atack and from Barts & the London NHS Trust Janice Fearne and finally Terry Gregg a former chairman of the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry. This extremely experienced team of experts will discuss topics as diverse as Paediatric Oral Medicine, the Orthodontic/Paediatric interface, Caries in children, Developmental abnormalities and Dentoalveolar injuries. To help reinforce the principles discussed, the day will finish with a case planning exercise. (See under aim & objectives for further information on the course series and for a list of city centre and Clifton hotels see course documents. The Avon Gorge and Rodney Hotel are the nearest hotels to Burwalls).

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14:00 TMJ - Successful management in general practice   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: TMJ - Successful management in general practice (SW12-01-24-1)
Venue: Lyngford House, Taunton - Somerset
Date: Tue 24 Jan 2012, 14:00 to 17:00
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: £18.00
Description: A small group course with a hands-on element, covering diagnosis and treatment of temporo-mandibular joint disorders, evidence base, and treatment modalities suitable for general practice. Please note - participants are requested to bring suitable clinical gloves.

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09:15 Whats new in dental trauma   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Whats new in dental trauma (SW12-01-26-1)
Venue: The Barn Function Centre, Berkeley - Gloucestershire
Date: Thu 26 Jan 2012, 09:15 to 16:15
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £35.00
Description: A whole day course on dental trauma with lectures in the morning and case scenarios in the afternoon including group discussion.The course will be given by Mr P Wilson , consultant restorative department Bristol Dental Hospital and Mr M Garrett ,consultant restorative department Guys ,Kings and St Thomas Hospitals London.

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09:30 Child Oral Health   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Child Oral Health (SW12-01-27-1)
Venue: Salisbury District Hospital, Salisbury - Salisbury & S Wiltshire
Date: Fri 27 Jan 2012, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £10.00
Description: Child Oral Health - where are we today?

09:30 Improve your crown preparations   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Improve your crown preparations (SW12-01-27-2)
Venue: Phantom Head Room-Derriford Hospital, Plymouth - Devon S & W
Date: Fri 27 Jan 2012, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £80.00
Description: A course aimed at General Practitioners wishing to improve preparations to their pateints benefit

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09:15 Impression taking for dental nurses session 2 - OSCE   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Impression taking for dental nurses session 2 - OSCE (SW12-01-28-1)
Venue: Parrys Lane Dental Practice, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Sat 28 Jan 2012, 09:15 to 14:00
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:00 hour
Cost: No charge
Description: Serssion 2 OSCE Objective Structured Clinical Examination