Course Calendar

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09:00 NHS Regulations   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: NHS Regulations (SW17-09-08-1)
Venue: Musgrove Park Academy, Taunton - Somerset
Date: Fri 8 Sep 2017, 09:00 to 12:30
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: £40.00
Description: THIS COURSE IS DESIGNED FOR PLVE TRAINEES as a definitive guide to understanding NHS rules and regulations that apply to NHS dental practice.

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09:30 Plaque & Debris Scoring and Topical Fluoride Varnish Application for DCP's   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Plaque & Debris Scoring and Topical Fluoride Varnish Application for DCP's (SW17-09-09-1)
Venue: Clinical Skills Lab, Devon - Devon S & W
Date: Sat 9 Sep 2017, 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: £80.00
Description: A course for dental nurses designed to give them the confidence and competence to apply a disclosing material to a patient's teeth and to then record a score using a recognised indicy to help the patient to improve their oral hygiene. Also, to educate the DCP in the application of fluoride varnish to patients under the prescription of a dentist.

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09:30 Smile Design   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Smile Design (SW17-09-11-1)
Venue: The Watergate Bay Hotel, Cornwall
Date: Mon 11 Sep 2017, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £150.00
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 (SW17-09-12-1)
Venue: The Watergate Bay Hotel, Cornwall
Date: Tue 12 Sep 2017, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £150.00
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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09:00 Oral Medicine in General Dental Practice   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Oral Medicine in General Dental Practice (SW17-09-16-1)
Venue: Engineers' House, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Sat 16 Sep 2017, 09:00 to 17:00
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Meal
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £90.00
Description: Providing sound knowledge base for the understanding of disease processes, particularly with regard to oral mucosal lesions and oral cancer that we come across in everyday general practice. Diagnosis, treatment and when to refer will be extensively presented and discussed during this interactive and informative course.

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14:00 NHS Regulations   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: NHS Regulations (SW17-09-21-1)
Venue: Jurys Inn Exeter Hotel, Exeter - Devon N & E
Date: Thu 21 Sep 2017, 14:00 to 17:00
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: Tea and coffee only
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 3:00 hours
Cost: £40.00
Description: THIS COURSE IS DESIGNED FOR PLVE TRAINEES as a definitive guide to understanding NHS rules and regulations that apply to NHS dental practice.

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09:30 Impression Taking for DCPs   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Impression Taking for DCPs (SW17-09-23-1)
Venue: Oral & Maxillofacial Department, Poole Hospital, Poole - Bournemouth & E Dorset
Date: Sat 23 Sep 2017, 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: £80.00
Description: Impression Taking for DCP's - Title Impression taking for DCP's Description Additional skills dental nurse Training - check prescriptions for patient for impression, prepare the surgery and patient for impression taking and bite registration, select and prepare materials to be used for the taking of dental impressions . use a safe technique to take accurate impressions of the patients jaws and register the bite to an appropriate standard , Be able to manage any complications that might occur during the procedure , ensure continuity of care for the patients

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18:00 Time (for the Dental) Team - An evening of Dental Archaeology   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Time (for the Dental) Team - An evening of Dental Archaeology (SW17-09-27-1)
Venue: Holiday Inn Taunton, Taunton - Somerset
Date: Wed 27 Sep 2017, 18:00 to 20:00
Course style: Lecture
Catering: Light buffet
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: £16.00
Description: This course promises to be a fascinating evening for the whole Dental Team. Catriona McKenzie, lecturer in Human Osteoarchaeology at the University of Exeter, will talk about how she uses teeth to decipher the likely diet and oral health of past populations through looking at dental calculus, caries, periodontal disease, abscesses and maybe stable isotype analysis.

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09:00 FREE E-learning for dental prescribing (Dental Script)   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: FREE E-learning for dental prescribing (Dental Script) (SW17-09-29-1)
Venue: Bristol Dental Hospital, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Fri 29 Sep 2017, 09:00 to 23:00
Course style: Lecture
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 5:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: Improve and ensure that you are prescribing antimicrobials correctly and update your knowledge of prescribing medications, drug interactions and emergency drugs with this innovative e-Learning programme. It includes modules on: - Prescription Documentation and the Drug History - Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Reactions - Special Patient Groups - Medical Emergencies - Periprocedural Prescribing - Dental Infections - Pain, Ulceration and Inflammation The 7 modules contain interactive content and case-based prescribing scenarios. In-module activities and a pre- and post-test will help you to understand your baseline knowledge and measure your progress.

09:00 Medical emergencies and coping with serious events in dental practice.   Availability: Course has taken place
Title: Medical emergencies and coping with serious events in dental practice. (SW-17-09-29-1)
Venue: UBHT Education centre, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Fri 29 Sep 2017, 09:00 to 16:15
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: Light buffet
Core topic: Core topics
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £90.00
Description: This is a course based on medical emergency situations and other serious events that may be encountered in dental practice. There will be hands on simulation practice, case based studies and workshop discussions. Accidents and near misses occur in healthcare all the time but we rarely get the chance to practice or think through scenarios. This course introduces the concept of "human factors" training and events analysis to increase patient safety and efficiency of team working if such an event should happen. The course is suitable for all members of the team as individuals or as a team in order to practice coping with emergencies together. It is part of the core CPD topic of medical emergencies.