Course Calendar

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12:30 The Menopause - increasing awareness and strategies to support team members   Availability: Places available
Title: The Menopause - increasing awareness and strategies to support team members (DWD1MAY25)
Venue: Blackboard Collaborate, - Virtual
Date: Thu 1 May 2025, 12:30 to 14:00
Course style: Lecture
Category: Management course
Development outcome: B, C, D
CPD: 1:30 hours
Cost: £10.00
Description: The menopause is something that every woman will experience at some part in their lives. It can be a difficult transitional period to navigate, with the symptoms affecting many aspects of day-to-day life. As managers and business owners, it is important to increase awareness of the stages of the menopause, and how we can supports affected members of the workforce. It is also helpful to disseminate knowledge throughout the wider team in order to create a supportive and empathetic environment.

19:00 21st Century Essential Skills for the Dental Team: Communication   Availability: Places available
Title: 21st Century Essential Skills for the Dental Team: Communication (DWD01MAY25)
Venue: Blackboard Collaborate, - Virtual
Date: Thu 1 May 2025, 19:00 to 20:00
Course style: Lecture
Category: Evening lecture
Development outcome: B, C, D
CPD: 1:00 hour
Cost: £10.00
Description: This session will give participants an insight into the power of communication within the dental environment.

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09:30 Creative Composites   Availability: Fully booked
Title: Creative Composites (DWD8MAY25)
Venue: York Pavilion Hotel, York
Date: Thu 8 May 2025, 09:30 to 17:00
Course style: Hands-on course
Category: Clinical course
Catering: Refreshments and lunch
Development outcome: A
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £130.00
Description: This popular all-day course covers the many uses of composite resin as a restorative, preventative and aesthetic assessment material. New materials and techniques including discussion on the use of the latest range of adhesive aesthetic materials as well as traditional methods are covered.

09:30 Dental Decontamination Leadership   Availability: Fully booked
Title: Dental Decontamination Leadership (DWD8MAY25B)
Venue: Weetwood Hall Hotel, Leeds
2 Sessions: Starting on Thu 8 May 2025 at 09:30
Course style: Workshop
Category: Management course
Catering: Refreshments and lunch
Development outcome: A, B, C, D
CPD: 12:00 hours
Cost: £160.00
Description: This Dental Decontamination Leadership session will enable you to progress in a leadership role by providing you with the underpinning knowledge on decontamination & allow you to develop the leadership skills required to manage the day to day running of a decontamination area. Please note, places are limited for this course and applicants are encouraged to complete the form (below) to demonstrate individual need for development in leading and managing decontamination processes. Closing date for applications is 4/4/25. If you require any further information, please contact Sarah Brown sarah.brown235@nhs.net. Please ensure that you are able to attend BOTH sessions, before expressing interest in the course.

09:30 Practical periodontology for the GDP   Availability: Only 3 places available
Title: Practical periodontology for the GDP (DWD8MAY25C)
Venue: Horizon, Leeds
2 Sessions: Starting on Thu 8 May 2025 at 09:30
Course style: Hands-on course
Category: Clinical course
Catering: Refreshments and lunch
Development outcome: A, B, C, D
CPD: 12:00 hours
Cost: £280.00
Description: This is a course designed to follow periodontal therapy through non surgical to surgical techniques, with the opportunity to practice on pigs jaws over 2 days and explore more advanced surgery for the GDP.

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09:30 Aesthetic Indirect Restorations   Availability: Fully booked
Title: Aesthetic Indirect Restorations (DWD9MAY25B)
Venue: York Pavilion Hotel, York
Date: Fri 9 May 2025, 09:30 to 17:00
Course style: Hands-on course
Category: Clinical course
Catering: Refreshments and lunch
Development outcome: A
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £130.00
Description: A one day course with mainly hands-on components to take you from assessment of the broken down tooth through to restoration with indirect materials; covering material selection, local anaesthesia, tooth preparation for metal, metal-ceramic, all-ceramic and monolithic zirconia restorations (including vertipreps), impressions, temporisation and cementation. This course covers crowns, partial coverage crowns, inlays, onlays, overlays and veneers.

09:30 Team Wellbeing Series - Dental Help Plus, the art of managing anxiety in dental patients   Availability: Only 8 places available
Title: Team Wellbeing Series - Dental Help Plus, the art of managing anxiety in dental patients (DWD9MAY25)
Venue: York Holiday Inn, York
Date: Fri 9 May 2025, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Workshop
Category: Management course
Catering: Refreshments and lunch
Development outcome: A, B, C, D
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £80.00
Description: This course will help reduce stress and burnout for staff as well as providing a sense of achievement through effective management of phobic patients. Understand how to improve patient compliance and a reduced gag reflex, leading to time savings later.

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09:30 Advanced Impression-Recording for the Dental Team   Availability: Only 2 places available
Title: Advanced Impression-Recording for the Dental Team (DWD10MAY25B)
Venue: Leeds Dental Institute, Leeds
Date: Sat 10 May 2025, 09:30 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on course
Category: Clinical course
Catering: Refreshments and lunch
Development outcome: A, B, C, D
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £180.00
Description: This is an interactive, hands-on day. Initially, theoretical seminars will update your impression-taking knowledge, from material to tray-selection and adaptation, to placement and sustainability consideration, alongside the option of digital impressions. A hands-on clinical session will follow, preparing and seating trays for traditional impressions, plus the opportunity to familiarise yourself to take a digital impression. You can then reflect on your current practise to make any necessary changes.

09:30 Toothwear, Occlusion and Splints   Availability: Places available
Title: Toothwear, Occlusion and Splints (DWD10MAY25)
Venue: York Pavilion Hotel, York
Date: Sat 10 May 2025, 09:30 to 17:00
Course style: Hands-on course
Category: Clinical course
Catering: Refreshments and lunch
Development outcome: A
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £130.00
Description: This popular all-day course covers the aetiology and management of all types of tooth wear, from diagnosis and prevention through monitoring and management. Techniques for intervention use the latest range of adhesive aesthetic materials as well as traditional methods. This course will include occlusal solutions and the use of splints Hands-on sessions include tooth build-ups with a range of direct and indirect techniques. Teaching covers the management of sensitivity, aesthetics and function as well as occlusal change in vertical and horizontal dimensions. Splint therapy is also included. Part seminar with a lot of hands-on including treatment of a severe case (on models).

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13:00 Skin Cancer Awareness   Availability: Only 3 places available
Title: Skin Cancer Awareness (DWD12MAY25)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams - Virtual
Date: Mon 12 May 2025, 13:00 to 13:30
Course style: Lecture
Category: Information event
Development outcome: C
CPD: 0:30 hours
Cost: £10.00
Description: A short 30 minute webinar introducing the essential roles of the dental team to recognise abnormalities on the skin and confidently signpost to appropriate professional colleagues. After the webinar there is the opportunity to undertake a certificated course through the UK charity Skcin using a promotional code for training at a time convenient to individuals.

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09:30 Oral Cancer Symposium - The role of the dental team in supporting the patient journey   Availability: Only 9 places available
Title: Oral Cancer Symposium - The role of the dental team in supporting the patient journey (DWD14MAY25b)
Venue: Best Western Plus The Quays Hotel, Sheffield
Date: Wed 14 May 2025, 09:30 to 17:00
Course style: Lecture
Category: Core course
Catering: Refreshments and lunch
Development outcome: A, B, C
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £80.00
Description: This is a major event with a patient speaker who will be keen to meet and interact with clinicians. This event is organised for the whole dental team. It presents Oral Cancer from the patient’s point of view and discusses ways in which the patient can be supported by the Dental Team. Different aspects of the disease from epidemiology, aetiology and screening to early diagnosis and referral as well as post-treatment support and restorative management will be presented.

19:00 BSPD/MCN Lecture: Bridging the Sound Gap: Empowering Dental Care for Patients with Hearing Impairment   Availability: Places available
Title: BSPD/MCN Lecture: Bridging the Sound Gap: Empowering Dental Care for Patients with Hearing Impairment (DWD14MAY25)
Venue: Blackboard Collaborate, - Virtual
Date: Wed 14 May 2025, 19:00 to 20:00
Course style: Lecture
Category: Evening lecture
Development outcome: A, C, D
CPD: 1:00 hour
Cost: No charge
Description: BSPD Ridings Branch are pleased to host Graeme Wright who is Director of Dentistry, Clinical Director and Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry for NHS Lothian based at the Edinburgh Dental Institute and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh. Prior to consultant training and his current roles, he has previously worked as a General Dental Practitioner and as a Specialist in the Public Dental Services. Graeme’s clinical interests are in the management of medically compromised patients and dental trauma. Graeme is a native British Sign Language communicator having been brought up by his profoundly deaf parents.

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09:00 SY7 Milestone 2   Availability: Only 1 place available
Title: SY7 Milestone 2 (DFT15MAY24)
Venue: Mercure Sheffield St Paul's Hotel and Spa, Sheffield
Date: Thu 15 May 2025, 09:00 to 16:00
Course style: Lecture
Category: Dental foundation and/or longitudinal course
Development outcome: A, B, C, D
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A DENTAL FOUNDATION TRAINING DAY AND NOT OPEN TO EXTERNAL DELEGATES

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09:00 NY2 Milestone 2   Availability: Fully booked
Title: NY2 Milestone 2 (DFT16MAY25)
Venue: York Postgraduate Medical Centre, York
Date: Fri 16 May 2025, 09:00 to 16:30
Course style: Lecture
Category: Dental foundation and/or longitudinal course
Development outcome: A, B, C, D
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A DENTAL FOUNDATION TRAINING DAY AND NOT OPEN TO EXTERNAL DELEGATES

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09:00 Modern Toothwear Management   Availability: Places available
Title: Modern Toothwear Management (DWD17MAY25)
Venue: DoubleTree by Hilton, York
Date: Sat 17 May 2025, 09:00 to 16:30
Course style: Hands-on course
Category: Clinical course
Catering: Refreshments and lunch
Development outcome: A
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £80.00
Description: A whole day course consisting of lectures, group discussion and case presentations on the ever evolving topic of toothwear.

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09:30 Inhalation Sedation Starter Course   Availability: Fully booked
Title: Inhalation Sedation Starter Course (DWD19MAY25)
Venue: Newstead House Dental Clinic, Wakefield
Date: Mon 19 May 2025, 09:30 to 17:00
Course style: Hands-on course
Category: Clinical course
Catering: Refreshments and lunch
Development outcome: A, B, C
CPD: 6:00 hours
Cost: £180.00
Description: The purpose of the course is to train dentists, dental therapists and dental nurses to be able to deliver inhalation sedation (IHS) to children and adults in a safe and effective manner in line with national guidelines and protocols. The day will incorporate an assessment of: a) MCQ of knowledge b) A practical assessment including equipment assembly, safety checks and titration of IHS

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09:00 ES Conference 2025   Availability: Places available
Title: ES Conference 2025 (DFT23MAY25)
Venue: Park Plaza Leeds, Leeds
Date: Fri 23 May 2025, 09:00 to 16:30
Course style: Workshop
Category: Information event
Catering: Refreshments and lunch
Development outcome: A, B, C, D
CPD: 5:00 hours
Cost: No charge
Description: The ES Conference for DFT/DTFT and JDFCT is an opportunity to update your knowledge and skills in areas that are hoped to support your role as an Educational Supervisor. It will also be an opportunity to meet with your colleagues in a friendly and safe environment.

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12:00 Orthodontic Therapists - Scope of Practice and being employed Vs self-employed.   Availability: Only 8 places available
Title: Orthodontic Therapists - Scope of Practice and being employed Vs self-employed. (DWD30MAY25B)
Venue: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams - Virtual
Date: Fri 30 May 2025, 12:00 to 13:30
Course style: Lecture
Category: Certificate of competence
Development outcome: A, B, D
CPD: 1:30 hours
Cost: £5.00
Description: An overview of Orthodontic therapists scope of practice and differences between working as employed or self employed & how to do this effectively.