SY6 scheme day (FD20NOV19)

Recommended to all

Aims - For each FD to deliver a Pecha Kucha presentation on an allocated subject.

- to inform the group about evidence based practice via peer teaching

- to improve presentation skills using the Pecha Kucha framework

- to improve confidence in delivery of oral presentations ready for MS2/MS3

Learning Outcomes to improve understanding of the following topic areas:

- Vitality testing - a comprehensive guide to options

- C Factors and ways of limiting post-operative sensitivity of composite restoration

- Bridge abutments an overview to suitability, selection and prognosis

- Considerations for patients undergoing cancer treatment (or who have previously had cancer with long-lasting dental implications)

- Dental Anxiety - assessment and management

- Difficulties securing local anaesthesia - things to try when patients still feel pain

- Ellis classification of incisal fracture and options for building up fractured anterior teeth

- Radiograph reporting what to include - BW, PA’s and OPG

- Tooth isolation - options and methods

- Pulpotomies, pulpectomies and apexification - indications, contraindications, methods and materials

- Biodentine - overview, indications, contraindication and application

- Classification and diagnosis of periodontal disease - latest guidance/update

- Pre-operative assessment of wisdom teeth in need of extraction (Winter’s lines and other assessment tools)

- Cracked tooth/cusp - assessment, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis