Dental Care of the Patient with Cancer
6.5 CPD Hours | Lumps, Bumps, Ulcers and Pain Lecture Series...  Click Here for the Next Course in this Series Dental Care of the Patient with Cancer is the third in a four part series, Lumps, Bumps, Ulcers and Pain exploring  oral manifestations, encountered in everyday practice - for all dental practitioners. Cancer is on the rise with more patients undergone cancer treatments, surviving cancer, and living with cancer. Established therapies, surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are continuously evolving, and cause significant morbidity and adverse dental/oral complications and manifestations.  Newer therapies, such as the biologic agents, the small molecules agents (TKIs) and the immune-modifying agents are also resulting in unexpected dental/oral complications and adverse effects.  The risk of Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaws (MRONJ) is also becoming more common.   Enrol today for a full-day event which addresses the basic concepts regarding the management of cancer and how these can impact adversely on our patients’ dental and oral health and the safe delivery of dental treatment. ...

Periodontics in Children and Adolescents
3.5 CPD Hours | Special considerations of periodontal diagnostics, treatment and prevention in children and adolescents... Children and adolescents are subject to several periodontal diseases. Periodontal diseases in children and adolescents can be aggressive or with a severe systemic background. Therefore, early diagnosis and immediate and appropriate treatment are of paramount importance. This course aims to discuss and outline periodontal diagnosis, prognosis, treatment structure, maintenance and prevention in children and adolescent patients. ...

Advanced Contemporary Endodontics
14.0 CPD Hours | Fully Booked | This two-day hands-on seminar offers personalised, high-level training for general dentists wishing to pursue excellence in endodontics, and will teach state-of-the-art evidence-based procedures in root canal preparation and obturation, with a focus on recent advances in endodontic diagnosis and materials. Important techniques for avoiding and managing endodontic procedural problems will be analysed in detail, and participants will be introduced to contemporary methods for the removal of obturation materials and obstructions from root canals.   Lecture material will be presented utilising microscope-assisted clinical video, and the workshop portion of the course will provide a hands-on opportunity to use the most clinically relevant rotary NiTi systems and obturation methods. Modern techniques for removing posts, gutta-percha, and fractured instruments will be demonstrated, with operating microscopes available for all hands-on exercises.    Participation is designed to improve your clinical results, efficiency, scope of practice, and professional satisfaction. ...

Infection Prevention and Control - Still Achieving Best Practice
6.5 CPD Hours | Face-to-face, full day interactive course... Endorsed and delivered by the ADA this course is the premier source of contemporary infection prevention and control (IPC) information for the dental profession. Delivered either face-to-face or live online this is a comprehensive, fun and interactive course that distils vast amounts of important and dynamic information into sensible and manageable risk-based concepts. This ADA NSW course constantly evolves and has supported thousands of dental practices across Australia to confidently navigate IPC best practice moving forward. This course is for you if:  You want to know why IPC is a priority for healthcare You need to enhance your contemporary knowledge of IPC generally You are looking for ways to streamline IPC processes and improve efficiency You are interested in using evidence and best practice concepts to seek and identify quality improvements; and You work in a dental setting and want to create a culture of continuous quality improvement ensuring services are person centred, safe and effective. You are a registered dental practitioner, student, Australian Dental Council candidate, a dental practice team member, industry or product representative or a consumer advocate     ...

Tip to the Top, From Apex to Crown; The Endodontic - Restorative Interface
7.0 CPD Hours | ADA CPD and Australian Society of Endodontology (ASE) joined together for a comprehensive day on the management of complex endodontic treatments. Join the experts on an endodontic journey from the apex tip to the top of the tooth. Begin with managing traumatic dental injuries and discover a multi-disciplinary approach to manage the consequences of such injuries.  Explore the various aspects in endodontic treatment, including how to manage complications during pulp canal obliteration, how to manage different types of root resorption, and gain an overview of the current bioceramic materials that can be used as a pulp capping agent or a apical plug.  Finaly, gain further insight for the preferred restorative options, including re-attachment of the original fragment or restoration with composite or ceramics.  ...

Four Handed Dentistry for the Dental Team
6.0 CPD Hours | Working together as a team to deliver productive and efficient dental treatment... This course will provide training for the dental team to help them work together productively and efficiently. It will demonstrate how to lessen fatigue, stress levels, improve posture and work together as a cohesive team. It will also improve the dental assistant anticipation of procedures.   Participants will be shown how to make minimum movements throughout the procedure to facilitate four-handed dentistry. Emphasis will be placed on accomplishing a smooth-flowing process, where each member of the dental team knows what is expected of them.   When conducted properly, fatigue is lessened because the procedures are carried out in a manner where the dentist is required to concentrate only on the dental treatment being carried out (not what is happening around them). Learn how body movements and eye focus can be kept to a minimum, and productivity and patient flow is increased as dental treatment is delivered in a specific routine manner. ...

South Coast Division Meeting
1.5 CPD Hours | Oral Medicine...Presenter: Dr Suma Sukumar Save the date for the South Coast Division Study Group meeting on  Thursday 20 October 2022 at 6:30pm . Enjoy diner and discussion with Dr Suma Sukumar on the aspects of oral medicine. Your registration fee includes dinner and drinks. Registration from 6pm and dinner at 7pm.   ...

Essentials for Starting or Joining a Practice
6.5 CPD Hours |   This all day seminar will introduce Dentists to the critical considerations for the journey into establishing and running their own profitable business into the future and will consider all aspects in this pivotal decision making process, including Financial, Risk, HR, Marketing and Legal. ...

Simply Ceramic Preps
16.0 CPD Hours | Fully Booked | Conservative all ceramic preparations for veneers, crowns, bridges, inlays and onlays.... This is a hands-on course coupled with live and pre-recorded patient procedures to teach you how to gain maximum benefit from today’s ceramic materials. The outcome for the course is to provide safe conservative tooth preparation so that you can use today’s most aesthetic ceramic materials and achieve great results which your patients will be proud to show their friends. ...

Exiting Your Practice and Maximising Your Outcome
6.0 CPD Hours | In practice sales you don’t get the result you deserve… you get the result you create! Get the best possible return for one of your greatest assets.   Vital information for anyone within their last 5 years of ownership! ...

Management of Medical Emergencies in the Dental Practice
6.5 CPD Hours | Medical Emergencies do happen in Dentistry. Are you prepared?... This hands-on course leads to certification in Advanced Life Support for dentists and staff. The training is designed to provide the practitioner and their support staff with a simple algorithm for the management of medical emergencies within the practice. Participants will learn about the most common life-threatening medical conditions, how to recognise them and how to conduct a quick and accurate clinical assessment and lead the practice team in providing effective treatment. Equipment training will include  Airway management using advanced airway devices Respiratory and cardiac support using supplementary oxygen therapy, bag and mask ventilation Use of drugs including Asprin, Adrenaline, Salbutamol, Glyceraltrinitrate and Glucose Use of Automated External Defibrillator and Pulse Oximetry​ Dental Emergency Kits For more information about the kits, please contact Cynergex Group. Full training should be undertaken before use. The kits have been developed in consultation with dental practitioners and health departments around Australia. ​Scenario exercises are used throughout the course for assessment and certification.   ...

Prosthodontic Problems?
6.5 CPD Hours | Plan to prevent them!... Every clinician aims to provide the best dental treatment for patients in a predictable manner resulting in the least amount of problems. However, at times we provided the right treatment for the wrong clinical situation, resulting in a clinical failure. This one-day presentation will cover a wide range of topics including tooth assessment, patient assessment, aesthetic assessment, occlusion assessment, parafunction management, bridge design and material selection. All of these are important factors to help you identify the risk factors which could result in premature failure, then plan your treatment with long-term success in mind. ​Would you like to reduce your restorative complications or failures? If so, then this is the right course for you. In this presentation, Dr Ben Lee will cover a wide range of topics aimed to identify risk factors before treatment and to a better treatment plan to reduce your clinical failures. ...

The Profitable Practice
6.5 CPD Hours | How to Thrive and Survive in any economy... Running your own dental practice can be one of the most rewarding experiences for a dentist. However, the financial and emotional commitment involved also make it one of the most challenging. Many practice owners find the business of dentistry difficult. Marketing, building teams, leadership, managing cashflow are all essential skills for running a successful enterprise but none of these subjects are taught at dental school.  Dentists who struggle with this often say they are not getting the financial rewards they want or, they have no work-life balance. Without a systematic approach to running a practice, success cannot be assumed. Fortunately, with the right knowledge, skills and resources running a successful dental practice can be achieved predictably. In this full day seminar, we will highlight the fundamental business skills every practice owner must master to achieve their goals. These skills are the same skills Dr Green’s high end consulting clients use to generate multiple 7 figure profits while enjoying a great lifestyle. Participants will receive a workbook that includes plug-and-play templates and resources for immediate use. ...

Dental Sedation Refresher Course
6.5 CPD Hours | 5 Places Left | This is an annual refresher course for those who are already endorsed, conscious sedation practitioners. This course focuses on improving the day-to-day practice of IV and other sedation by providing dental sedationists with information on changes in sedation practice, pharmacology and techniques. It provides you and your registered nurse the opportunity to manage sedation and its associated emergencies in a controlled environment using simulation. The assessment also confirms correct techniques in the preparation and conduct of sedation and the management of adverse events including the use of basic and advanced life support in the management of respiratory and cardiac arrest.  The course operates under Chatham House rules and no assessment materials other than the final results are retained by the course managers. All audiovisual material is deleted at the end of the course during the final course wrap up. This course has been approved by the Dental Board of Australia. ...