Braham Pearlman Memorial Dinner
Join the Newcastle Division for their Annual Memorial Dinner at The Newcastle Club Friday 29 August 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Updates in Dental Traumatology
What can we do when healing does not go as planned or hoped
Dental trauma and its management can be stressful for the entire dental team. Knowledge and systems provide clinicians and their teams an evidence-based approach to managing emergencies with the hope of making stressful situations a little calmer. Practical tips as well as recent updates in the International Guidelines will be reviewed.
Unfortunately, dental structures cannot be replaced and therefore require repair, which this does not always go how we might wish. Failing dental units in the smile line pose serious challenges in dentistry. This presentation will describe options as well as the role of an interdisciplinary team to manage these complex cases.
Dr Helen Cornwell
Helen completed her Bachelor of Dental Surgery in Adelaide and specialist training at the University of Melbourne, where her interest in dental trauma, its assessment, prevention, and management were nurtured. Following completion of her Masters’ Thesis looking at Dental Injuries in Basketball Players she became involved with the International Association for Sport Dentistry presenting at their inaugural meeting as well as the IOC conference for Sport Science and Medicine in Athens, 2003.Â
She has provided provide advice for basketball Australia and FIBA, written chapters on dental injuries in the growing child in dental clinics of North America and been a consultant in the review of the Australian standard for mouthguards.
Dr Brahman Pearlman
Dr Braham Pearlman was a progressive practitioner in periodontology. He believed in the importance of prevention and high clinical standards and was instrumental in the introduction of dental hygienists into private practice and implants into specialist periodontal practice. He studied dentistry at the University of Sydney, graduated in 1960, then joined the Royal
Australian Air Force and served until 1962 as a dental officer at bases in Richmond, Darwin and
Ballarat. He remained active in the force for life and rose to group captain. In 1993, he was
awarded the Reserve Force Decoration.
After his time with the RAAF, Pearlman went to London, where he first went into private
practice for a year then did postgraduate study at the Eastman Dental School. He then went to Boston, where he completed a masters degree in periodontics. He returned to London in 1969 and took up a lectureship in the periodontal department at London Hospital Medical College Dental Institute at Whitechapel.
