Conference Programme

CPD Outcomes: A, B, D

Maximising the use of skill mix within NHS Dentistry, featuring case studies and discussions on how the entire dental team can effectively work together. Exploring how therapists, hygienists, dental nurses and dentists can collaboratively provide care, supporting NHSE guidance on skill mix in general practice. This will be followed by a panel discussion on making the NHS the best place to work.

CPD Outcomes: A, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Do your patients struggle to achieve B1 when whitening? Do you ever have patients complaining of sensitivity? Are you not doing as much teeth whitening as you would like? Join Dr Lydia Sharples as she explores how we can utilise strategies and protocols to improve whitening results. 

 

CPD Outcomes: C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session will look at the growth in demand for aesthetic treatments, the greatest areas of patient interest, and how aesthetic treatments using the latest energy based devices are the perfect addition to today’s dental practice, offering new revenue streams and increased patient satisfaction. 

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

We will be exploring how dental care professionals can safely and effectively maintain professional standards in clinical practice, through the lens of the CQC, the NHS England Dental Performer List, the Office of the Chief Dental Officer (OCDO), within practice management and via the application of NHS clinical standards and GDPR.

CPD Outcomes: B, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This presentation will discuss minimally invasive strategies to aesthetically improve dark anterior teeth. Bleaching should always be the first approach considered, so we will discuss effective strategies for inside-outside bleaching. We will also discuss a variety of strategies for the use of ceramic restorations to mask discoloured teeth conservatively. 

CPD Outcomes: B, C, D

This session will provide detail and an explanation of the GDC Section 60 changes and the improvements in the registration processes for overseas qualified dentists. It will also explain the various routes and requirements for acceptance onto the NHS England Dental Performers List and highlight new opportunities for dental education and training in developing the future NHS dental workforce.

CPD Outcomes: A, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Presentation of the principles of immediate dental implantology and the management of soft and hard tissue related to immediate dental implants. 

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Provide audiences with an overview of career development opportunities in both clinical and non clinical routes within Dentistry. It will cover the career journeys of dentists pursuing policy, academia, as well as those undertaking speciality training following a clinical fellowship role. Furthermore, we will explore career progression opportunities available to general practitioners through the College of General Dentistry.

CPD Outcomes: A, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Isolation is all arrays of cases, from simple to complex. We cover from simple direct restorations both anterior and posteriors, all the way to subgingival crown margin isolation, deep margin elevation, and cementation of multiple units for rehabilitation cases. Rubber dam is one of the gold standard tool that can be your biggest ally in almost all cases.

CPD Outcomes: A, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes: The session will explore the current situation for dental hygienists and dental therapists consistently working to their full scope, look at strategies that can be implemented to ensure they can, which in turn will lead to a more productive and profitable dental hygiene and therapy department with a dental practice.

CPD Outcome: B

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Practices are losing money every day through poor dental asset management resulting in faulty equipment, unplanned downtimes and potential health and safety risks and compliance breaches, not to mention frustrated patients and staff. What if there was a better way to manage your assets and stop the cash leaks? 

CPD Outcomes: A, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Consider the dento-legal challenges faces by dental teams in practice 

CPD Outcome: C

Overview/Learning Outcomes: There is lots going on in the world of tax. From tax rate changes, the implementation of making tax digital, potential change in basis periods and anything else the government throws at us between now and the seminar!

CPD Outcome: C

Overview/Learning Outcomes: The presentation will aim to help practice owners understand the current market and practice sales landscape

CPD Outcomes: A, B, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes: An opportunity to learn a practical approach to creating, communicating and implementing a growth plan for your practice in 2023.  

CPD Outcome: B

Overview/Learning Outcomes: During this talk Junaid will talk about opportunities to increase value of the practice immediately, if you are planning to sell now, or opportunities to grow the practice and increase its value over time, if you are not ready to sell yet. Junaid will use a study case to demonstrate growth achieved by a practice that was valued approximately two years ago and recently, to achieve value growth of over £1 million. Not to be missed if you are interested in growing the value of your business.                          

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

The audience will be able to submit their questions to the Business Confidence panel covering Accountancy, HR, Practice Purchases and Sales, Practice Management, Compliance, and a whole lot more. All in one session.

CPD Outcomes: B, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  To update on key healthcare policy developments, including dental system reform in England. To help delegates prepare for future changes in UK dentistry, including around the balance of provision between NHS and private care. 

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  For many clinicians endodontics is a dark art. This lecture aims to demystify the first step in the endodontic treatment: the access.  

CPD Outcomes: A, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes: The Dahl principle can be used to carry out interceptive restorative treatments in wear cases that can give many more of your patients a chance to avoid tooth preparations and be far more affordable too.

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes: This presentation will look at the role of Personalised Dental Medicine in 21st century dental practice. It will start by looking at the size of the challenge presented by periodontal diseases, and the WHOs 2022/23 Oral Health Strategy and move onto discuss how there is a need to put the patient at the centre of all we do. The session will then put a lens on gingivitis as a new paradigm and explain why there is a need to take it seriously in the context of primary prevention of periodontitis, but also its impact on systemic diseases. The lecture will finish by looking at multi-disciplinary team working between Oral Healthcare Professionals and Medical colleagues, why that is important and how we can make it work in a bi-directional manner.

CPD Outcomes: B, C

Overview/Learning outcomes: Provide an overview of the role of chemotherapeutics in biofilm prevention reviewing the latest mouth rinse evidence, why it's important for dental hygienists and therapists to review and critique research and how we can implement the results in our daily practice.

CPD Outcomes: A, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  We all have patients where achieving a great oral hygiene outcome is challenging. Patients often don’t seem to listen or appear to care. Inspiring behaviour change in patients can be challenging and frustrating, but if we are to achieve the best oral health outcome for them, we must persist in our efforts.. I want to unpick the human brain by looking at the 4 personality types and how to adapt your approach to each one. I will arm you with 3 questions.

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes: To understand the latest features of iTero and the Align digital workflow. To understand the “Smile Architect” Ortho-Restorative planning features. To demonstrate a case planned with Smile Architect.

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes: This lecture will look frankly and controversially at the way our industry operates and who we market to. What will be the affect long term of treating the “insta” patient? Is it safer to treat patients we know better? How closely are we really looking at our own patients?

CPD Outcomes: A, B, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Dental implants have become a popular dental modality for our patients over the last 10 years. This lecture will discuss the disease process of peri implantitis and how similar it is to periodontitis, and how to monitor peri implant tissues for health and disease and how to manage it. 

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:

In the past, dentists cut teeth with abandon, but research circa twenty years ago indicated the perils of doing this, namely, pulp death and weakened teeth. This presentation will therefore suggest ways of treating teeth which need operative intervention by using contemporary adhesives to reduce preparations or avoid cutting teeth.

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  In a time where there seems to be endless regulations and guidelines being published, it is easy to be overwhelmed and ignore them. This presentation aims to demystify the S3 Perio Guidelines and show you how useful they can be in managing perio in any practice setting.  

CPD Outcome: C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  The purpose of root canal obturation is to prevent infection or re-infection of the root canal space. In this presentation, root canal obturation techniques and materials will be discussed with an emphasis on their benefits and shortcomings and with the view of highlighting areas of development. 

CPD Outcome: B

In the UK, 78% of the regulated dental profession as a whole are female, and it is vital that female dentists and dental care professionals (DCPs) should be well supported through the menopause and perimenopause to ensure the profession retains passionate and skilled clinicians in the workforce for as long as possible. The BADN’s Menopause Policy provides an overview of the impact menopause can have on employees , on the practice, and how employers can support menopausal employees.

CPD Outcomes: A, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Highlighting the importance of diagnosing, preventing progression and recording Erosive Tooth Wear in clinical practice and discuss the challenges with clinical management of severe Erosive Tooth Wear  

CPD Outcomes:  A, B, C

This presentation prepares you for the day when you have that prickle down the back of your neck – when you find something which sets a patient down a truly life-changing path.  Learn how to create an oral cancer strategy that allows you and your practice to manage high risk patients and those going through their cancer journey.

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Learning Content and Overview: Delegates will learn about the latest advancements in professional teeth whitening from a veteran developer 

CPD Outcomes: B, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  To have an understanding of the different types of progression available to dental nurses post registration.  

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

At the end of the session dental nurses will have a greater understanding of a systems approach and the need to be influential in changing the culture of dentistry.

CPD Outcomes: A, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Using the NICE guidance on: Dental checks: intervals between oral health reviews, published in 2004, this session explores how NHS dental teams can implement a fully personalised recall approach for managing the oral and dental health of their NHS patients.  

Smiling matters, published three years ago shows what CQC found from a review on the state of oral health care in care homes across England.  Our findings found then that too many people living in care homes are not being supported to maintain and improve their oral health.  We will be publishing our Smiling Matters: 3 years on report and this session will explore our findings and recommendations for both adult social care and dental professionals.