Course Calendar

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09:00 Impression taking for DCPs   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Impression taking for DCPs (SW13-09-07-1)
Venue: Mount Wise Dental Practice, Devonport - Devon S & W
Date: 2 day event starting on Sat 7 Sep 2013, 09:00 to 16:00
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £85.00
Description: Impression taking for DCPs - Additional Skills Dental Nurse Training, Impression taking course for DCPs. DCPs attending this course will be required to attend an OSCE day 8 weeks later (23.11.13). Only those attending the 1st part will be able to participate in the OSCE. The OSCE is included in the course fee. Criteria of students entering the course, Registered Dental Nurse with the General Dental Council, (evidence needed) In current employment, Have the written support of his/her employer, Evidence of Professional Indemnity cover, Evidence of appropriate up to date CPD (eg BLS, Medical Emergencies), Not all participants will have undertaken a Dental Nurse Training course which has equivalence to NVQ 3. However it is felt that all students will have the ability to engage in the level of work required to successfully complete this course. DCPs attending this course will be expected to take impressions in their place of work and to fill out a record of experience document, cooperation from their Dentist is essential.

09:15 Impression taking for DCPs   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Impression taking for DCPs (SW13-09-07-2)
Venue: Weston Orthodontic Centre, Weston-super-Mare - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Sat 7 Sep 2013, 09:15 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £85.00
Description: Additional skills dental nurse training - Impression taking course for DCPs, DCPs attending this course will be required also to attend an OSCE day on Saturday 2nd November 2013- only those attending the 1st part of the course will be able to attend the OSCE. The OSCE is included in the course fee. Criteria of students entering the course, Registered DCP with the General Dental Council, In current employment, Have the written support of his/her employer, Professional Indemnity cover, Evidence of appropriate up to date CPD (eg BLS, Medical Emergencies), Not all participants will have undertaken a Dental Nurse Training course which has equivalence to NVQ 3. However it is felt that all students will have the ability to engage in the level of work required to successfully complete this course.

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09:30 Infection control and Decontamination in Dental Practice   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Infection control and Decontamination in Dental Practice (SW13-09-09-1)
Venue: Alverton Manor Hotel, Truro - Cornwall
Date: Mon 9 Sep 2013, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Disinfection and decontamination
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £42.00
Description: Dr Martin Fulford originally trained as a microbiologist and spent 13 years as a practical medical microbiologist. Retrained as a dentist in his mid thirties and then spent 17 years working as a general dental practitioner in the UK. During this time he managed to combine clinical dentistry with research, mainly in the field of infection control. He has recently completed a thesis entitled: ‘Microbial Contamination of Dental Unit Water Systems in General Dental Practice’. Although now retired from clinical practice he is still active in research and is currently part of a team investigating the possibility of the transmission of vCJD via contaminated dental instruments. Martin is also a scientific adviser, with a particular interest in infection control, to the British Dental Association. A popular speaker in the South West, Martin returns to Cornwall to deliver his excellent presentation.

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09:30 Digital Dental Photography   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Digital Dental Photography (SW13-09-10-1)
Venue: Phantom Head Room-Derriford Hospital, Plymouth - Devon S & W
Date: Tue 10 Sep 2013, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £60.00
Description: This is a new hands on S63 course, in our Clinical Skills Laboratory, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, by Adrian Watts, "Digital Dental Photography" Adrian will do a basic introduction to macro photography, going back to first principles of close up photography, demonstrate taking dental photographs, help to calibrate your cameras, look at equipment required, and discuss storage, data protection etc... *All delegates must bring along cameras please* This course is mainly aimed at digital SLR cameras, although we welcome all camera users!

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18:00 Reducing your Tax Bill   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Reducing your Tax Bill (SW13-09-12-1)
Venue: Alverton Manor Hotel, Truro - Cornwall
Date: Thu 12 Sep 2013, 18:00 to 20:15
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: An evening event presented by a local accountant giving quick and easy options on reducing your tax bill. The topics covered in the marketing element revolve around the basic principles of marketing, from awareness through to selling, dealing with brand attributes and communication along the way. These presentations have received great feedback around the country.

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09:30 Smile Design   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Smile Design (SW13-09-16-1)
Venue: The Watergate Bay Hotel, Cornwall
Date: Mon 16 Sep 2013, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £90.00
Description: Brian Millar BDS FDSRCS PhD Director of Distance Learning, KCL and Bill Sharpling RDT MBA DipCDT,RCS(Eng) Director of the London Dental Education Centre - An all-day programme which includes techniques of assessing and improving a smile as well as carrying out trial build-ups and aesthetic mock-ups before committing your patient, or yourself, to treatment. There will be discussion on techniques covering colour change by bleaching and the use of tools for prescribing highly aesthetic and effective diagnostic wax-ups plus how to communicate this effectively to the dental laboratory and also effectively use the information to assist your patient in understating the improvements that may be possible. There will be some hands-on to compliment the theory and composite build-ups and trial restorations will be produced.

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09:30 Occlusion not Confusion   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Occlusion not Confusion (SW13-09-17-1)
Venue: The Watergate Bay Hotel, Cornwall
Date: Tue 17 Sep 2013, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £90.00
Description: An all-day programme which includes seminars on key aspects of dental occlusion, the cardinal aims, patient examination, techniques for assessing and recording the occlusion, use of splints. Practical includes use of articulator, using a facebow, recording occlusal positions, creating a customised incisal guidance table, fabricating a Lucia jig, applying the understanding of occuslion to treating tooth wear. Topics covered: Features of an ideal occlusion; Deciding which occlusal position to use; When to change the OVD; Determining Centric Relation; Using a facebow; Obtaining occlusal records; Choosing & using an articulator; Applying an understanding of occlusion to everyday practice, from simple restorations to the management of advanced tooth wear; Use of splints: soft, hard, Michegans, Tanners, Mandibular Advancement Splints… ***Participants are required to bring a set of own upper and lower models (trimmed with thin base) for the hands-on element.***

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09:15 IR(ME)R-Update in Dental Radiography- Core CPD   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: IR(ME)R-Update in Dental Radiography- Core CPD (SW13-09-20-1)
Venue: The Barn Function Centre, Berkeley - Gloucestershire
Date: Fri 20 Sep 2013, 09:15 to 16:45
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Radiography and radiation protection
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £46.00
Description: This lecture will address GDC requirement for verifiable CPD in this core subject: understanding the principles of Radiation Protection and how these are translated into practice. Ian will enable you to have an overview of the implications for radiation detriment to the patient of various radiographic techniques and alternative imaging modalities.

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08:45 Fibredontics   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Fibredontics (SW13-09-27-1)
Venue: The Barn Function Centre, Berkeley - Gloucestershire
Date: Fri 27 Sep 2013, 08:45 to 17:00
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £66.00
Description: Discover how fibre technology can revolutionise treatment planning. Improvements in materials and bonding techniques are a key factor in providing the clinician and the patient with new minimally invasive choices.Conventional treatment options I.e. metal and ceramic may well prove too expensive for many patients in todays economic climate.Direct fibre reinforced bridges are a reliable and aesthetic way to replace missing teeth in a single visit whether temporarily,transitionally or for the long term.This is a good alternative for patients who can't tolerate the conventional acrylic dentures. In a friendly and enthusiastic atmosphere you can experience this comprehensive and informative hands-on training session,which will be delivered in three modules throughout the day. Each module starts with an introductory lecture including clinical cases,illustrating the different techniques followed bt step-by-step demonstration. Finally ,you will be given the opportunity to work with the fibres and complete each excercises under supervision

18:00 Third molars - are they back to bite us?   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Third molars - are they back to bite us? (SW13-09-27-2)
Venue: Plymouth Medical Centre, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth - Devon S & W
Date: Fri 27 Sep 2013, 18:00 to 21:00
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: £20.00
Description: The NICE recommendations regarding third molar removal achieved its initial aim of reducing the NHS bill, but now the rate of removal is climbing back to pre-NICE levels, but with a more vulnerable patient cohort. Professor Renton will illuminate this and other issues in Oral Surgery supported by research that she and her colleagues have been carrying out. This evening event is run in conjunction with the Plymouth BDA Section.

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09:30 plaque and debris scoring for dental nurses   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: plaque and debris scoring for dental nurses (SW13-09-28-1)
Venue: Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester - Gloucestershire
Date: Sat 28 Sep 2013, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £85.00
Description: A course for Dental Nurses. An extended duty in the GDC scope of practice. A course designed to give Dental Nurses the confidence and competence to apply a disclosing material to a patients teeth and to then record a score using a recognised indicy to help the patient to improve their oral hygiene.