Essex Branch and Essex LDC - Align, bleach and bond for lifetime dentistry

What to expect

Assess the value of a lifetime patient approach by embedding ortho-restorative parameters into every examination. Use diagnosis-based aligner prescriptions, manage patient expectations, apply the Dahl principle for protection, evaluate long-term outcomes, and reduce overall treatment risk.

Timings

08:30   Registration 

09:00   Lecture starts

16:30   Ends

Learning objectives

• Help patients understand the dynamic changes ongoing in their mouths

• To understand what will happen to teeth overtime from a biological and functional perspective

• To see how preventative dentistry can be far more than just stopping decay and gum disease

• Understanding ortho restorative planning and diagnosis based prescriptions for aligners

• How metabolic health affects you and your patients - some simple checks and advice to help with actual health span.

Development outcomes

A, C and D

Booking fees

• BDA member / LDC member dentist £50

• Non-member dentist £75

• Dental care professional £35

• Student (members and non-members) £35

Meet the speaker

Tif Qureshi qualified from Kings College London in 1992. He is a private practitioner based near London.

He is the chairman of IAS Academy, an international faculty that provides mentored education for general dentists on a pathway from appropriate simple to comprehensive restoratively focused orthodontics. Tif helps to lead an educates network of trainers and mentors internationally, ensuring quality delivery of education and ongoing mentoring. He has a special interest in orthodontics and truly minimally invasive restorative dentistry. He is also interested in monitoring the long-term benefits of this kind of scalable interceptive treatment.

He sits on the board of the British Association of Private Dentistry. He is also a Fellow of the  College of General Dentistry  and the International College of Dentists. Tif is also the winner of several prestigious awards including the SverkerPrize in Sweden and the Lifetime Contribution to Aesthetic Dentistry in the UK. He is one of the Past Presidents of the British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry.

He has committed his life’s work to empowering dentists to offer a wide variety of treatments to many more patients. Tif was the original global pioneer of the "Align, Bleach, Bond" concept and "Progressive Smile Design" and teaches widely using clear aligners. He is also an experienced teacher in the Dahl concept to assist in minimally invasive, patient-centred dentistry. He lectures extensively internationally and has had many articles published on all these subjects.