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IN-PERSON EVENT, hosted by the BDA Armed Forces Group

What to expect

This year's Armed Forces Group Annual Study Day will take place at Hallam Conference Centre on Thursday 3 July 2025.

All BDA Armed Forces Group members and non-members are invited to attended, including those retired and currently employed as a CDP on a MOD Contract.

The Group's AGM will be followed by three lectures on oral surgery with speaker Chris Waith, Lecturer in Oral Surgery and Sedation.

This annual event is a great opportunity to network with your colleagues.

*Retired are those who have retired from Defence Primary Healthcare (Dental) having accumulated at least 20 years of service, either in uniform and/or as a Civilian Dental Practitioner.

Timings

10:00 Registration and refreshments

10:30 Welcome, President's Opening Address, Prize presentation and Annual General Meeting

11:30 Lecture 1 - Common RMH issues that make the (dental) press, top tips for LA, and difficult LA patients - Chris Waith

12:35 Lunch

14:00 Lecture 2 - Simple and surgical extractions technique, when you have everything that you need and how to make do when you don’t (from Sale to Tanzania) - Chris Waith

15:00 Afternoon refreshments

15:20 Lecture 3 - Wisdom teeth - problems, solutions and surgery and Dental extraction complications- prevention and cure - Chris Waith

16:20 End

Please find the lecture aims and objectives under 'More information' below.

Meet the speaker

Chris Waith Chris Waith Lecturer in Oral Surgery and Sedation

Chris graduated with honours from Manchester University in 2002. He also won the Edgar Houghton restorative prize and the BDA Young Clinician award for Manchester. After VT he worked as a member of the Central Manchester maxillofacial team for three years during which time he passed the MFDS examination. His maxillofacial work continued at locum registrar level (2nd on call cover) for a year at Walsgrave (Coventry) and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. After 18 months as a Staff Grade (OMFS) at the Countess of Chester, he became Speciality Dentist in Oral Surgery at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Manchester Dental Hospital.

Chris is now a clinical teaching fellow and lecturer in oral surgery and sedation to MSc and undergraduate students. Chris is a SAAD qualified sedationist who currently treats 2-300 sedation cases a year. He has also completed the TC Ucer dental implant certificate. He is a clinician for the Astra system, lectures for Geistlich Biomaterials and is active in postgraduate education both learning and teaching. He is a member of the BDA, BAOS, SAAD, ITI and ADI. He provides private MOS, sedation and implants in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.

More information

Please email [email protected] with any dietary requirements.

Lecture 1 - Common RMH issues that make the (dental) press, top tips for LA, and difficult LA patients

Aims

  • Describe the general terms used in assessing a patient's general health
  • Describe the processes involved with patients taking those medications that might make them bleed more
  • Explore the management of patients taking antiresorptive medication
  • Look at some of the more common medical problems we encounter in our oral surgery patients
  • Understand how to use local anaesthetic solutions as consistently as possible
  • Describe reasons why our local anaesthetic might fail.

Learning objectives

At the end of this lecture the delegates should:

  • Be familiar with the ASA rating and the concept of physical reserve
  • Understand the management of patients who are prone to bleeding
  • Be aware of the management of patients taking antiresorptive medication
  • Feel more comfortable managing some of the more common medical problems encountered in our oral surgery patients
  • Be able to consider the most suitable local anaesthetic solution for a treatment
  • Be able to consider some of the alternative techniques they might use when our primary techniques have failed.

Learning content

A lecture with the opportunity to ask the speaker questions at the end.

Development outcome 

C

Lecture 2 - Simple and surgical extractions technique, when you have everything that you need and how to make do when you don’t (from Sale to Tanzania)

Aims

Describe the instruments and techniques we use to facilitate tooth and root extraction and the factors that might make this process more difficult
Understand the process of sectioning a tooth in order to facilitate its removal
Explore the instruments and techniques we use to facilitate raising a flap and removing bone as part of a surgical extraction process
Describe the instruments and techniques we use to suture a mucoperiosteal flap or extraction socket.

Learning objectives

At the end of this lecture the delegates should:

Establish a systematic approach of progressing through controlled simple to more difficult surgical extractions
Choose an appropriate treatment approach for individual patients
Identify appropriate surgical instrumentation and use them effectively
Understand how oral anatomy relates to oral surgical procedures.

Learning content

A lecture with the opportunity to ask the speaker questions at the end.

Development outcome 

C

Lecture 3 - Wisdom teeth- problems, solutions and surgery and Dental extraction complications- prevention and cure

Aims

Look specifically at wisdom tooth removal and the relevant approach to different types of impaction
Explore some of the sequelae of treatment and non-treatment
Describe some of the more common complications we encounter during an extraction
Understand the risk factors for these complications, ways to plan at avoiding them and ways to treat them should they occur.

Learning objectives

At the end of this lecture the delegates should:

Be able to identify the different types of impactions we commonly encounter
Understand the process of surgically removing a wisdom teeth
Be able to plan an extraction in a way to minimise the likelihood of encountering an extraction complication
Should be able to consider ways of dealing with some common extraction complications.

Learning content

A lecture with the opportunity to ask the speaker questions at the end.

Development outcome 

C

44 Hallam Street, London W1W 6JJ

By bus
There are many buses stopping within a few minutes walk of Hallam Street, including No’s: 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 25, 88, 94, 137, 159, 189, 453 & C2.

By rail
Marylebone, Euston & Kings Cross St Pancras Stations are all within 10 minutes taxi rides or alternatively 15 minutes by Underground. Paddington Station (which has a direct link to Heathrow every 15 minutes) is 20 minutes walk or 10 minutes in a taxi.

By Underground

The nearest stations are Great Portland Street and Oxford Circus

Great Portland Street
Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan – 5 min walk

Leave the station, walk South down Great Portland St. At the traffic lights, cross over the street and continue down the road. Turn right into Devonshire St and immediately left into Hallam St at The Masons Arms. Continue down the road, cross Weymouth St and walk down the road, you will then shortly arrive at 44 Hallam St.

Oxford Circus
Bakerloo, Central, Victoria – 5 min walk

Leave the Tube using Exit 4, which will bring you out on the North side of Oxford St by H&M. Walk North away from Oxford Circus with H&M on your left. The road starts to curve round to the left as Regent St becomes Langham Place. Cross the street at the zebra crossing and walk towards the BBC’s main entrance. Just before the entrance turn right and then left up to 44 Hallam Street.

By car
To plan your journey by car visit The AA’s Route Planner and enter our postcode: W1W 6JJ. Please note that this events venue is within the Congestion Charge Zone and Ultra Low Emission Zone

There is on-street parking nearby, see: Parking in Westminster for more information. The nearest NCP car park is at 6-7 Weymouth Mews.

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