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Clinical photography in dental practice

Friday 22 June 2012

British Dental Association
64 Wimpole Street
London W1G 8YS

Seeing is believing - show not tell

Digital dental photography plays a key role in the dental practice, significantly facilitating documentation, patient records, publication, marketing, treatment planning and diagnostics. This interactive hands-on course will cover the techniques of how to take quality, predictable dental photographs and incorporate them into your day-to-day practice. Photography in the practice can involve the whole dental team in the patient’s treatment planning, help to increase case acceptance and will improve the profile of your practice.

What will you learn?

By the end of the course you will:

• Be aware of how dental photographs can significantly aid your treatment proposals
• know how to choose the correct photographic equipment for your dental practice
• understand what your camera can do and how to use it
• learn the techniques for reproducible results
• recognise how photographs can enhance your communication with other dental professionals, patients and the laboratory technicians
• understand how photographs can enhance your record keeping, maintain practice standards and avoid litigation.

Camera Clinic - this course will include a half day hands-on training session for the whole dental team.

Who should attend?

This one-day interactive training course is suitable for the whole dental team.

Why should you attend?

Dental photography has become a diagnostic tool that the whole dental team can utilise.

CPD

This training course meets the educational criteria set by the GDC for verifiable CPD (5 1/2 hourse CPD) and is certified by the British Dental Association.

About the speakers:

	Peter Gordon Director, Photodent Ltd Peter Gordon spent 30 years in his private West End practice. He was appointed as UK Honorary Clinical Consultant to 3M for three years, and Honorary Clinical Consultant to Bayer for 18 years, lecturing world-wide. Peter introduced photography to the Dental Reference Service during the 12 years he worked as a Dental Reference Officer.
	Philip Wander GDP, Manchester Philip Wander qualified from the University of Liverpool in 1966 and obtained his MGDS from the Royal College of Surgeons in London in 1980. He is best known in the UK and internationally for his extensive articles as well as his BDJ textbook co-authored with Peter Gordon on Clinical Dental Photography, a topic on which he has lectured and demonstrated extensively.

Cancellation policy

All cancellations must be received in writing either by fax to 020 7563 4591, or by email to events@bda.org, or by post to The Events team, BDA, 64 Wimpole Street, London W1G 8YS. This must then be followed by a telephone call to confirm receipt. Cancellations received 29 days or more prior to the event will be entitled to a 100% credit voucher or refund. Cancellations received between 15 days and 28 days (inclusive) prior to the event will receive a 100% credit voucher to attend a future BDA event or a 75% refund. For late cancellations received between 1 day and 14 days (inclusive) prior to the event, no credit voucher or refund will be given. Failure to attend the event on the day will constitute late cancellation and no credit voucher or refund will be given. Substitutions are welcome at any time.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the programme may change and the BDA reserves the right to cancel the event or alter the venue and/or speakers.

Further information

For further information on the programme and to book your place on this course please contact: Erica Sprigge, Events Executive, British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London W1G 8YS Tel: 020 7563 4590, Email: events@bda.org

Accommodation

To make your trip to London as low-cost as possible, Fresh! Reservations, in conjunction with the BDA Events team, offer a free service co-ordinating reduced rate hotel accommodation for delegates attending BDA events. For assistance with accommodation telephone the Fresh! Reservations team on 0845 310 333 quoting 'BDA - Training essentials'. Alternatively you may email them at bda@freshres.co.uk or book online at www.freshres.co.uk.