Course Calendar

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09:00 Human Factors   Availability: Only 3 places available
Title: Human Factors (DCT 2025-26 11)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Mon 2 Feb 2026, 09:00 to 15:00
Development outcome: A, B, C, D
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: To introduce dental professionals to human factors that are relevant to their clinical practice in order to improve patient safety

19:00 Periodontal Disease factors that influence its initiation progression and links to systemic disease   Availability: Places available
Title: Periodontal Disease factors that influence its initiation progression and links to systemic disease (SW-26-02-02-01)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Mon 2 Feb 2026, 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: The aim of the presentation is to cover the aetiology of periodontal disease with particular reference to the factors that influence it’s initiation and progression and links to systemic disease. Delegates will have a deeper understanding of how these factors t into daily clinical practice and how they can be assessed to help us tailor our care on an individual basis to a greater extent than ever before, both by extensions of existing techniques and the introduction of new tests. Along with techniques that can be implemented simply and immediately, especially by hygienists and therapists, delegates will also learn of how they can develop their clinical practice to further enhance the care of their patients. Brief coverage will also be given of more sophisticated investigations that are already available to give delegates a background in what future periodontal care may encompass

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09:30 Resin Bonded Bridges and Partial Denture Design   Availability: Fully booked
Title: Resin Bonded Bridges and Partial Denture Design (SW-26-02-05-01)
Venue: Novotel, Bristol Centre, Bristol - Bristol & N Somerset
Date: Thu 5 Feb 2026, 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: £90.00
Description: This course is an opportunity to consider how we might replace missing teeth. We will be joined by Musaab Siddiqui (Consultant in Prosthodontics, University of Bristol Dental School) who will be considering the appropriate use of Resin Bonded Bridges (RBB), including case selection and clinical techniques. We will also be revising the principles of partial denture design with the opportunity practice using plastic models. This will be a small group course, of no more than fifteen dentists, with plenty of opportunity for questions, discussion and clinical tips.

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18:30 Dental Ceramics   Availability: Only 3 places available
Title: Dental Ceramics (SW-26-02-09-01)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Mon 9 Feb 2026, 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 online course will discuss the different types of dental ceramic that are available to the general practitioner. and when the best situation is for the use of each type. 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 fot the use of general practitioners.

19:00 Implant Maintenance in Primary Care   Availability: Places available
Title: Implant Maintenance in Primary Care (SW-26-02-09-02)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Mon 9 Feb 2026, 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: Help! A new patient arrives with an existing implant. We've all had the same thoughts: What do I need to do? Whose responsibility is this? How can I spot a problem and resolve it quickly? Tim Harris and Colin McGuirk will be joining us on-line to explain how we should be monitoring and maintaining existing implants in practice. We will be discussing our legal obligations, 'Duty of Care', and will offer practical solutions for the most common problems around dental implants in general dental practice. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions.

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19:00 Paediatric Dental Trauma   Availability: Places available
Title: Paediatric Dental Trauma (SW26-02-10-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Tue 10 Feb 2026, 19:00 to 21:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: Webinar
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 2:00 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: Dr Jasmin Meehan (STR in Paediatric Dentistry, Bristol Dental Hospital) will be joining us to discuss the management of dental trauma in children. We will consider injuries to the primary dentition, developing permanent dentition and the importance of correct management of traumatised immature teeth. Jasmin will explain when we should consider onward referral, and the appropriate pathways for this in the Southwest.

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08:30 EXAMINATION PREPARATION-Including OSCE stations   Availability: Fully booked
Title: EXAMINATION PREPARATION-Including OSCE stations (DCT 2025-26 04)
Venue: Dept of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Swindon - Swindon & N Wiltshire
Date: Thu 12 Feb 2026, 08:30 to 12:30
Development outcome: C
Course style: Interactive Workshop
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 4:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: Exam preparation: OSCE & Viva

18:30 The Fundamentals of Facial Pain   Availability: Places available
Title: The Fundamentals of Facial Pain (SW-26-02-12-01)
Venue: MS Teams, Virtual - N/A - Virtual
Date: Thu 12 Feb 2026, 18:30 to 20:00
Development outcome: C
Course style: E- learning
Catering: None
Core topic: Not a core topic
CPD: 1:30 hours
Cost: £15.00
Description: This evenings webinar will cover the diagnosis and management options of orofacial pain that may be encounter in primary care dentistry. There are times when dental pain and orofacial pain can be challenging to differentiate so Dr James Ashworth-Holland will guide us through some more common orofacial pain cases. As an Oral Medicine Specialty trainee, James helps diagnose and manage patients with acute and chronic pain associated with a variety of conditions. This is a repeat of the very well received webinar April 2024, however TMJ disorders will not be covered in this webinar.

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18:30 Management of Endodontic Failures   Availability: Places available
Title: Management of Endodontic Failures (SW-26-02-23-01)
Venue: Zoom, N/A - N/A - Virtual
Date: Mon 23 Feb 2026, 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 online course will explain how to deal with endodontic failures from how to spot them to treatment rationales for these teeth. 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 being aimed at the general practitioner.

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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: Tue 24 Feb 2026, 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.