Lecturer Details: Management of patients with polypharmacy, common medical conditions and dry mouth in general dental practice including prevention.

Lecturer nameMs Cara Ball BDS MSc FHEA DHT
Lecturer profileQualifications:
BDS MSc FHEA DHT

Current Roles:
Peninsula School of Dentistry; teaching in in plenaries and workshops mainly on aspects of Special Care Dentistry, paediatric dentistry and of areas consent and the Mental Capacity Act. Small group facilitator for Y4 Daybooks.

Smile Together CIC, West Country Dental Care; Band C specialist in Special Care Dentistry, Lead of Child Protection and Adults at risk of harm for West Country Dental Care. Based at Truro Health Park.
(NHS community Dentistry)
I receive numerous referrals from GDPs, GMPs, School Nurses, Community Nurses for Adults with a Learning Disability, Hospital Healthcare Providers and other professional bodies. These referrals are for people who find dental treatment in a standard dental environment impossible.
I treat many different types of service user, from paediatric patients, to patients with fear of dental treatment or a dental phobia to patients with mental, physical, sensory or emotional impairments. I treat the patients using a variety of methods including behavioural management, inhalation sedation, hypnotherapy and general anaesthetic.
I examine and treat patients in the dental surgery, and in Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro.
Due to the type of patient I treated I am extremely familiar with the Mental Capacity Act and have organised and lead many Best Interest meeting for adults who have lacked capacity to consent for their treatment.

I practice solution focused hypnotherapy in private practice at River Practice Hypnotherapy

Experience relevant to the topic:
I have worked clinically with children or adults with an additional need for 20 years, taking referrals from many sources for children requiring a little extra support, to children requiring complex paediatric dental procedures, to those requiring complex multidisciplinary team input.
I have led paediatric teaching clinics for dental students for several years and was a leading role in the development of the paediatric dentistry part of the undergraduate dental curriculum.
I present multiple workshops and lectures in Peninsula dental school in the diverse areas within paediatric dentistry.
This had included paediatric dentistry updates for the clinical supervisors at study days.