Full programme
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08:30 Registration, refreshments, networking and BDA Benevolent Fund raffle
09:10 Welcome - Sinuba Naidu
09:20 BDA CDS Presidential Address - Ruth Early
09:30 A practical overview of common oral medicine conditions, their management and referral pathways for improved patient care
Abeer Elamin, Specialty Registrar in Oral Medicine
Aims
To enhance the knowledge and diagnostic skills of healthcare professionals in community dental services by providing a practical overview of common oral medicine conditions, their management, and referral pathways for improved patient care.
Learning objectives
- Understanding of common oral medicine conditions seen in paediatrics and special care dentistry
- Learning what simple or 1st line treatments you can offer
- Understanding when to refer and how to optimise referrals to oral medicine.
Learning content
The lecture will focus on the clinical recognition, assessment, and initial management of common oral medicine conditions, including an overview of mucosal lesions including oral ulceration, lumps and bumps, red flag features requiring urgent referral.
11:00 Morning refreshments
11:20 Preventing musculoskeletal disorders in dental professionals - A physiotherapy perspective
Laura Ellery, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy
Aims
To reduce the impact of musculoskeletal disorders among dental professionals and to ensure that you and your colleagues are minimising the risk of developing occupation-induced pain and discomfort.
Learning objectives
- Understand the prevalence and associated risk of musculoskeletal disorders in dental professionals
- Recognise the importance of posture and the effects of biomechanical stress on the body during dental procedures
- Appreciate the role of exercise in preventing musculoskeletal pain
- To raise awareness of how to support and protect colleagues within your practice from developing musculoskeletal disorders.
Learning content
Introduction to MSK disorders, overview of normal posture, and biomechanical stresses commonly observed in dental professionals. Advice on correcting posture and positioning of both the professional and patient during practice, and the role of exercise and how it may prevent MSK disorders from occurring. There will then be a short, seated exercise programme, with audience participation.
12:20 AGM for BDA members / BDA Benevolent Fund raffle / Lunch break starts for non-BDA members
12:40 Lunch
13:30 The orthodontic patient
Nadia Ahmed, Consultant Orthodontist and lifestyle coach
Aims
This session will use clinical cases to illustrate an orthodontic assessment giving details on how to undertake an extra-oral assessment and intra-oral assessment.
Learning Objectives
- To refresh knowledge on how to accurately carry out an orthodontic assessment to ensure appropriate referrals are made in a timely manner
- Understand the importance of orthodontic assessment of patients in the community dental service.
Learning content
A lecture with the opportunity to ask the speaker questions at the end.
14:15 Oral Presentation - The behavioural influence on a patient of a clinician’s choice of topic specific words - Hafeez Ahmed
14:30 Alignment is not just teeth - core values and the wheels of life
Nadia Ahmed, Consultant Orthodontist and lifestyle coach
Aims
To enable delegates to identify their personal values and how to live in alignment with their values and raise awareness of identifying personal values and why this is important.
Learning objectives
- To be introduced to tools used in life coaching
- Evaluate your work-life balance with a wheel of life exercise
- Understand how life coaching can assist you in achieving your goals.
Learning content
A lecture and practical exercise with the opportunity to ask the speaker questions at the end.
15:15 Afternoon refreshments
15:30 Management of medically complex patients in an ageing population
Rachel Walker, Speciality Dentist in Oral Surgery
Aims
To discuss the management of dental patients in an ageing population with complex medical needs.
Learning objectives
- How ageing affects human physiology and how this should influence our patient management
- Hearing loss in patients and colleagues and how to make the clinic environment more deaf friendly for the whole team.
Learning content
A lecture with the opportunity to ask the speaker questions at the end.
16:30 Closing remarks
16:40 Close
