South Wales Dental Conference - Saturday

David is a Seasoned Dental Officer with 20 years’ expertise treating special care adults and children. Wide range of skills demonstrated to treat special care patients, from general anaesthetic and sedation to cognitive behavioural therapy.

Within the last year David has become the Training Programme Director for the Cardiff Dental Core Trainee 1 Scheme. Working as part of the all Wales Dental Core Training team to develop and deliver quality-based training for Dental Core trainees to both national and local standards.

He is the current Chairman of the BDA Welsh Council which provides hands on knowledge and experience of the managerial process, in addition to attending meetings at Welsh Government to represent Dentistry in Wales. He is the previous Chairman of the BDA Welsh Committee for Community Dentistry representing the staff and vulnerable patients of the Welsh CDS.

Published journal articles on research within the fields of paediatric dentistry and dental acupuncture.

Outside of work he regularly teaches postgraduate courses on the management of head and neck pain using acupuncture.

Rhiannon is the President Elect of the BSDHT and Dental Therapist for the South West Cleft Team, BSDHT. She has been a dental hygienist and therapist since 1999 and has worked in numerous settings such as general dental practice, NHS hospitals and University. She was a clinical lecturer for many years and left to take on the role of President for the BSDHT. She works to her full Scope of Practice and still has as much enthusiasm today as she did when she first qualified.

Emily is a Consultant Specialist in Periodontology at Guy's Hospital and Clinical Lecturer at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London. She completed her specialist training in Periodontology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, and achieved a Masters in Clinical Dentistry from King’s College London and Membership in Periodontics from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. She continued her passion for academia and was subsequently awarded a PhD in Periodontology from King’s College London. She is the recipient of multiple prestigious research prizes and her work has been published internationally. Her research interests include understanding the pathogenesis of periodontitis, the use of biologics including platelet rich fibrin for periodontal regeneration and the management of Endo-Perio Lesions.

Alyn qualified from Leeds Dental Institute in 1995. After a number of years in general dental practice he undertook postgraduate training in Endodontics at the Eastman Dental Institute and he was awarded an MSc with Distinction in 2009. He was admitted to the GDC Specialist List in Endodontics in 2013.

He was previously the Deputy Director of Endodontic CPD at the Eastman and is currently a Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow and Head of Endodontic teaching at Leeds Dental Institute. He is the immediate Past-President of the British Endodontic Society.

Alyn has undertaken well over 100 hands on teaching days for General Dental Practitioners, as well as regularly speaking at national and international conferences.

He has had numerous articles published in the dental press and wrote the chapter on Managing Endodontic Emergencies in the British Endodontic Society Guidelines to Good Endodontic Practice.