The 30th Annual Study Day of Y Gymdeithas Ddeintyddol (Dental Society of Wales) featured talks from a host of experts on the theme of ‘More than Teeth’. The study day was aimed at the whole dental team and CGDent members were invited to attend at the same rate as members of the Dental Society of Wales. The day was conducted in the Welsh language, with plans for simultaneous English translation, to be confirmed.
Programme
9.30am – Welcome, Mr Quentin Jones AssocFCGDent, Chairperson
A New GDS Contract in Wales, a new emphasis on prevention and oral health Dr Ceindeg Arwel, GDP
Wellness and Health for the Whole Dental Team Dr Ceril Rhys-Dillon, Rheumatologist
‘Human Factors’, risk management strategies in healthcare settings Dr Simon Burnett, Anaesthetist
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making, in dental radiographic diagnostics Dr Tomos Wiliams, Manchester University
Inter Professional Healthcare and education Dr Llinos Roberts, Senior Clinical Tutor Swansea Medical School and GMP
12.30pm – Lunch
The T Arfon Wiliams Memorial Lecture Ms Jenni Jones, BBC Wales News
The Bryn Morris Jones Student and Recent Graduate Prize Presentations from shortlisted entrants
Tea
Prize presentation
Dr Abhi Pal, President College of General Dentistry – Address
Mr William J Parry, President Y Gymdeithas Ddeintyddol – Address
CGDent Midlands study day: Contemporary management of toothwear Friday 1 July 2022, 9am-4.30pm Conference Aston, Aston University, Birmingham
At this CGDent Midlands study day, Professor Julian Satterthwaite provided authoritative updates on the management of toothwear, including the identification of common problems, issues around restorative maintenance and tooth survival and an exploration of adhesive approaches to restoration.
Speaker
Professor Julian Satterthwaite, Professor/Honorary Consultant in Restorative Dentistry at the University of Manchester Dental Hospital
Aims
Conservative management of toothwear
Identify common problems in toothwear
Problems associated with restorative maintenance vs tooth survival
The experts explore different treatment options for managing carious primary and permanent molars. The speakers discuss the latest evidence-based guidance and the different factors to consider when managing patients with carious molar teeth including the benefits of maintaining primary molars. We look at management strategies which can be easily conducted in primary care and we’ll explore when clinicians should consider a referral.
Speakers:
Reuben Bennett, DCT2 currently working in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Medicine in Bristol
Yi Loo, Registrar in Paediatric Dentistry at King’s College Hospital, London
Nabeel Ilyas, Specialist in Paediatric Dentistry, Registrar in Birmingham Community NHS trust and Birmingham Children’s Hospital
The recorded webinar is free to view for CGDent members and ProDental subscribers who can also can claim CPD hours for free. A £20 fee will apply for non-members/non-subscribers.
This webinar is powered by our CPD delivery partner, ProDental CPD.
Membership of the College of General Dentistry is open to all registered dental professionals. Membership for dentists is available from £94, and for other registered dental professionals from £33. The full list of CGDent membership rates is at https://cgdent.uk/membership-fees/.
The recorded webinar is free to view for CGDent members and ProDental subscribers who can also can claim CPD hours for free. A £20 fee will apply for non-members/non-subscribers.
We examine the evolving epidemiology of dementia and the changing demography within the UK population and the issues these raise for care provision. We explore how the dental team can ensure that it best meets the likely care needs of this segment of the population.
Speakers (TBC):
Paul Batchelor, Editor, Dementia-Friendly Dentistry: Good Practice Guidelines
Dr James P Wise, Dentist, Special interest in the care of the elderly and medically compromised patient
This webinar is powered by our CPD delivery partner, ProDental CPD.
Membership of the College of General Dentistry is open to all registered dental professionals. Membership for dentists is available from £94, and for other registered dental professionals from £33. The full list of CGDent membership rates is at https://cgdent.uk/membership-fees/.
The College was delighted to be the Education Partner and headline supporter for the Core CPD Theatre at the 2022 British Dental Conference and Dentistry Show, and welcomed members and non-members alike to Stand P56, and to its CPD seminars on GDC-recommended subjects.
The Core CPD Theatre featured 11 seminars over the two day conference, with experts in their fields sharing their extensive knowledge, and offering practical advice, on an array of essential, GDC-recommended, CPD subjects. The College itself hosted four of these:
Medical emergencies
Friday 13 May, 9.15am – 10am, Core CPD Theatre
Dr Kaushik Paul, Specialty Dentist, Oral Surgery and Sedation
GDC development outcomes: C
Leadership in infection prevention and control
Friday 13 May, 10.15am – 11am, Core CPD Theatre
Fiona Ellwood BEM FFGDP(UK)(Hon.), Subject Expert, Bangor University, All Wales Faculty for Dental Care Professionals
This session provided an overview of the principles of leadership and the various leadership styles in the context of infection prevention and control. The presentation was important to those who lead in IPC or who are looking to become a decontamination lead. It considered legislation and policy and the impact of non-compliance at all levels. It gave support to existing leads and looked at enhancing skills and consider lessons learned so far because of the pandemic.
GDC development outcomes: A, B, C, D
Information sharing in the digital age
Saturday 14 May, 9.15am – 10am, Core CPD Theatre
Tashfeen Kholasi, Vice President, College of General Dentistry
This session provided an overview of information sharing for patient care, and covered GDPR, the Caldecott Principles, the role of digital technology in information sharing, and how to share information safely and securely in practice.
GDC development outcomes: A, D
Complaints handling: A step-by-step approach to resolving a dental complaint
Saturday 14 May, 3.15pm-4pm, Core CPD Theatre
George Wright, Deputy Dental Director, Dental Protection
Aimed at all members of the dental team, this session highlighted key stages of the complaint-handling process with real examples of patient complaints. Covering a number of scenarios including verbal and written complaints, delegates gained an insight into how complaints can be effectively handled to facilitate early resolution.
GDC development outcomes: A
Conference registration was free, and delegates had access to over 250 seminars and workshop sessions in all, tailored to the whole dental team, across 14 lecture theatres.
The conference is co-sited with the Dental Technology Showcase, a major exhibition giving visitors the opportunity to discover the latest dental innovations and equipment from over 400 suppliers. And, of course, the Dentistry Show provides a great opportunity to network with thousands of dentists, practice managers, hygienists and therapists, dental nurses, technicians and laboratory owners.
Infection Prevention and Control – Learning from Covid-19 & AMR
26 & 27 April 2022, National Conference Centre, Birmingham
This year, the NHS Infection Prevention and Control Conference takes place over two days and explored the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic and the important issues of antimicrobial resistance and Gram-Negative bloodstream infections.
Topics examined during the conference included outbreak management, improving hand hygiene (and auditing procedures), and decontamination/cleaning protocols. Speakers discussed the theme of infection prevention, review current control standards and celebrate best practice.
The accompanying exhibition will showcase the latest innovation and technology available globally.
The College of General Dentistry has broadened its eligibility criteria for membership, enabling suitably qualified non-registrants to join, and offering practitioners with relevant non-dental qualifications the ability to progress to higher grades of membership.
Registration with the General Dental Council or an equivalent overseas authority is normally required for entry as an Associate Member. However former registrants, and those who hold a relevant qualification but may not be required to register with the GDC due to their job role – such as dental academics – are now eligible to join.
Those wishing to join as Full Members (MCGDent), or upgrade to Full Membership, have until now been required, in addition to meeting the requirements for Associate Membership, to hold either the DGDP, MJDF, MFGDP(UK), MFDS or a Postgraduate Certificate level qualification in a ‘relevant dental subject’. However Full Membership is now also open to those whose qualification is in a ‘subject relevant to the enhancement of oral healthcare’.
Those wishing to join at, or upgrade to, Associate Fellowship (AssocFCGDent), have up to this point needed to hold the MGDS, a Specialty Membership of a UK dental faculty, or a Postgraduate Diploma level or Masters level qualification in a dental subject. However, this recently-instituted membership grade, which offers a stepping stone to Fellowship, is similarly now available to those whose qualification is relevant to oral heath rather than being strictly ‘dental’ in scope.
Individuals qualifying under these extended criteria would then be eligible to apply for Fellowship (FCGDent) on the same basis as all other members of the College. This is currently open to existing Fellows of a UK Royal College or overseas equivalent, with a Fellowship by Experience route expected to be announced soon.
The changes are further to earlier departures from the eligibility criteria of the former Faculty of General Dental Practice, from which the College evolved – most notably the ability of Dental Hygienists, Dental Therapists, Dental Nurses, Dental Technicians and Clinical Dental Technicians to apply for membership at all grades, and for Practice Managers and other non-clinical members of the dental team to join as Affiliate Members.
“Among the key aims behind the establishment of The College of General Dentistry were the promotion of both dental and oral health, and to create a new type of college, breaking down barriers which are unnecessarily prescriptive and exclusionary, and replacing them with an inclusive approach fit for the 21st century.
“We are implementing this step by step, and are already a College open to all members of the dental team, formed of practitioners across the UK and beyond, and bridging the NHS/private divide.
“These latest changes offer recognition to a wide range of individuals and professional roles whose contribution to the advancement of general dental practice and oral healthcare is hugely significant, and we look forward to welcoming them into membership, and to bringing their significant knowledge, expertise and experience to bear in the fulfilment of our mission.”
This webinar is part of our ‘PDJ Live’ series, which examines topics covered in contemporary issues of the Primary Dental Journal, the College of General Dentistry’s quarterly peer-reviewed member journal for the whole dental team. It brings together the authors of the research article ‘IADT 2020 Guidelines: What should the dental professional know?‘ from the December 2021 issue on Paediatric Dentistry, who explore the latest guidance on managing traumatic dental injuries.
The recorded webinar is free to view for CGDent members and ProDental subscribers who can also can claim CPD hours for free. A £20 fee will apply for non-members/non-subscribers.
The International Association of Dental Traumatology (IADT) released updated guidelines for the management of traumatic dental injuries in 2020. All dentists must be able to diagnose and appropriately manage traumatic dental injuries. This webinar aims to highlight the main changes brought about by these evidence-based guidelines to ensure that dentists are able to assess, treat and review these injuries effectively, maximising the short and long-term outcomes for our patients.
Speakers discuss:
The main changes to the management of dental trauma brought about by the 2020 International Association of Dental Traumatology guidelines
The methods for assessing and treating traumatic dental injuries in both the primary and permanent dentition
Appropriate follow-up protocols for patients with dental trauma
Speakers:
Reuben Bennett, DCT2 working in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Medicine
Yi Loo, Registrar in Paediatric Dentistry at King’s College Hospital, London
Nabeel Ilyas, Specialist in Paediatric Dentistry, Registrar in Birmingham Community NHS trust and Birmingham Children’s Hospital
Membership of the College of General Dentistry is open to all registered dental professionals. Membership for dentists is available from £94, and for other registered dental professionals from £33. The full list of CGDent membership rates is at https://cgdent.uk/membership-fees/.
The College of General Dentistry has announced that it is offering dental students access to a leading dental e-learning package.
Students who enrol as members of the new College now have access to a growing library of over 350 online training courses and webinar recordings, as well as regular live seminars, through the ProDental platform. ProDental CPD is the UK’s largest independent provider of dental e-learning, serving over 30,000 users with live and on-demand content on their desktop, tablet and mobile devices.
Since its establishment last year as the successor to the Faculty of General Dental Practice, the College has been co-producing webinars with ProDental on subjects of interest to the general dental team, including the College’s guidance and standards publications, the themes explored in its quarterly Primary Dental Journal (PDJ), and events to support its emerging Career Pathways programme for dental professionals.
To date, the College has offered access to these – as well as to ProDental’s 900 hours of additional content, GDC-compliant CPD certification of all learning undertaken, and a bespoke online personal development planning tool (e-PDP) – to its Associate Members, Full Members, Associate Fellows and Fellows from across the dental team.
This access is now available to Student Members of the College. All those undertaking dental education and training in the UK prior to registration are eligible to join the College as Student Members, and a one-off fee of £10 gives membership until the completion of their pre-registration study.
Student Members also get free or discounted access to CGDent events and study days, regular news and events listings from the College, and online access to the PDJ and PDJ Archive, a rich resource of over 1,300 clinical and professional articles from a journal uniquely dedicated to general dental practice.
Dr Abhi Pal, President of the College of General Dentistry, said:
“One of the College’s key missions is to support dental professionals at all stages to progress in their careers. Our new offer for dental students will complement undergraduate studies while also enabling them to look beyond dental school and arrive armed and ready to succeed in the next phase of their professional lives.”
After the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic over the last two years, the College was delighted to be able to connect with dental colleagues at two recent, major face-to-face study events in Gateshead and Glasgow. Valerie Silver, CGDent Northern, and Patricia Thomson, CGDent Scotland, describe the joy of getting back in touch with other dental professionals and updating clinical knowledge with some of the profession’s top experts.
No More Nails – a new look for Northern and dentures!
By Valerie Silver MCGDent, CGDent Northern
Although the Northern Study Day had been planned well in advance for 2020, we hadn’t anticipated that a pandemic would sweep in and stop the world in its tracks. We made the inevitable decision to cancel in 2020 but, following months of restrictions, knew there was a demand for face-to-face events in the North East and so – while the second (or was it the third?) wave broke in early 2021 – we began planning again.
In July 2021, FGDP transferred to the new College of General Dentistry giving us the opportunity for a fresh start for the Study Day and we were delighted that Abhi Pal, the first elected President of the College, accepted our invitation to join us in his new role.
‘The whole day was fantastically run. So good to have face-to-face a CPD event. James Field is a brilliant speaker and I learnt loads about prosthodontics, a very complicated clinical thing to provide for patients but taught in a way that is relatable and constructive.’
Top prosthodontic tips from James Field
We were hugely grateful to welcome James Field, a Senior Lecturer in Restorative Dentistry and Honorary Consultant in Prosthodontics, back to the North East to share his knowledge with us. ‘No More Nails’ was jam-packed with prosthodontic tips and advice designed to ensure that denture patients will sing our praises for years to come!
James Field
Top tips included invaluable information on the critical success factors for complete and removable dentures and how to implement techniques to achieve a strong border seal on the upper arch and optimally stable denture on the lower arch. He followed this by demonstrating simple and efficient methods for partial denture design and discussing the clinical stages of implant-supported over denture provision.
‘I thought the presentations by James were excellent. I definitely learned many tips and tricks over the day that I will implement into my clinical practice.’
Building communities
Despite the difficulties resulting from the pandemic, close to 100 colleagues and a core group of exhibitors and sponsors joined us at the Gateshead Marriott MetroCentre. Many of them were Foundation Dentists and we are delighted to have retained and strengthened our links with the Northern Deanery and Health Education England as it establishes our goal moving forward of engaging with the whole dental team with an emphasis on mentoring and supporting early years colleagues.
‘An excellent speaker and a very well run event. Will look forward to another one. I particularly liked the friendliness of the committee.’
With that in mind, we are towards becoming a CGDent Affiliated Group. We plan to run local events when and where they are needed and, in particular, provide support for young dentists in the North East.
If all goes to plan, we will hold an informal virtual event in late spring or early summer 2022, before organising our follow up Study Day in the autumn. This is provisionally being planned to focus on oral cancers and treatments, and colleagues from across the UK (and further afield) are most welcome to join us!
The biggest one-day dental event in Scotland returns – with a new name
by Patricia Thomson AssocFCGDent, West of Scotland General Dental Practitioner, founding member of CGDent Scotland and Council member of CGDent
As we are all too aware, when the world locked down in March 2020, opportunities to engage with colleagues became virtual with face-to-face events banished from the diary. But in mid 2021, with society benefiting from double (then triple) vaccination and a lifting of restrictions, large scale dental events began to make a return, including a highlight in the calendar, December’s Glasgow Study Day.
The Faculty Study Day, as so many of us knew it, was an institution – thousands of dental professionals having attended since its inception in 1992. It featured some of the legends of dentistry from Van Haywood and Gordon Christensen to Didier Dietschi and Serpil Djemal. Arguably the most social event in dentistry, it catered for 400 attendees and culminated in a drinks reception overlooking the Clyde.
Hosting the Study Day as a CGDent Affiliated Group
In the West of Scotland, we have formed a CGDent Affiliated Group, supporting the principles and ethos of the College. We hope the College’s Career Pathways for all dental professionals will provide many opportunities for mentoring and tuition to foster dental careers in Scotland. So, after our Covid-induced break in 2020, the Scotland Study Day was back with a new name, but with all of the popular elements intact.
Abhi Pal, President CGDent
We marked our first meeting under the banner of CGDent by welcoming the first elected President of CGDent, Abhi Pal, and we were hugely grateful to our excellent speakers Iain Chapple, Carol Tait and Steve Bonsor for sharing their expertise. In particular, we were also thrilled to host the first major face-to-face dental meeting in Scotland since the start of the pandemic.
‘Brilliant organisation, world-class presenters, fantastic atmosphere and lovely to be back at a face-to-face event.’
Safety was paramount with lateral flow tests requested alongside mask wearing in the IMAX lecture theatre while, for those who could not attend in person, live streaming was also available. Even so, we felt incredibly lucky to be able to hold the event just before the Omicron wave broke and all large-scale events in Scotland were either cancelled or postponed by the Scottish Government. We were delighted to be joined not just by dentists and hygienists but all of Glasgow’s BDS5 cohort and more than 100 vocational trainees from across Scotland. Equally we could not have run the event without the support of more than 20 sponsors and exhibitors, many of whom have endured a torrid time during the pandemic.
‘Great to see the final year students and VTs so well represented and supported’
The Study Day brought together three of the UK’s most experienced educators.
Carol Tait, Steve Bonsor and Iain Chapple
Based on current evidence, Iain Chapple discussed the relationship between periodontal disease and other chronic non-communicable diseases, and the role of the dental team in the medical management of their patients. He detailed the diagnosis of early peri implant disease, the consequences of late diagnosis, and reviewed the evidence for long term survival of implants versus periodontally involved teeth, before discussing the success rates and risk factors for implants and the associated legal issues.
‘I have never enjoyed a periodontal lecture/session more. Thank you for making it very interesting today and engaging. I really enjoyed it!’
Carol Tait continued the theme by discussing pulpal and periapical disease and assessment for endodontic treatment, delivering clinical tips on the way, before moving on to complex endodontic problems and techniques, and likely treatment outcomes and methods to increase success rates.
The day finished with the Caldwell Memorial Lecture delivered by Steve Bonsor, General Dental Practitioner and lecturer at the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, whose stimulating address on modern dental materials was delivered in his inimitable, engaging and informative manner.
‘Excellent organisation and presentations giving a very rounded day and all credit to the organisers to assembling such a great turn out.’
Delegates were almost universal in their praise of not just the speakers but of the luxury of being able to interact in person again. Covid allowing, we look forward to welcoming them back on 2 December 2022 (put the date in your diary!).
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