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IN-PERSON EVENT, hosted by Metropolitan Branch

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Please note the new venue - Hallam Conference Centre - and there is limited availability for this event, so book early to avoid disappointment!

What to expect

This lecture will show how the introduction of digital technology, including scanning, increased treatment with clear aligners, and Dental Monitoring, transformed the clinical pathway for patients and the working lives of the team at Queen’s Gate Orthodontics, without compromising on treatment standards or patient satisfaction.

Timings

18:00 Registration and refreshments

18:45 Lecture - Claire Nightingale

20:15 End of lecture and networking

20:45 Close

Learning objectives

  • Understand the benefits of engaging with digital technology for the patient and clinician in orthodontic treatment
  • How to set goals for change and achieve them using strategies and tactics, which is applicable to any aspect of life, not just orthodontics.

Development outcomes

A, B and C

Meet the speaker

Claire Nightingale NHS Consultant and Specialist in Orthodontics

Claire Nightingale, a highly experienced and multiple prize-winning specialist orthodontist, including “Best Practice, UK, 2020” in The Dentistry Awards; the “Most Transformed Practice, 2022” in the UK and Ireland Invisalign Awards; “Best Principal, London, 2022”, Private Dentistry Awards, and “Best Team, London, 2023”, Private Dentistry Awards, decided to become an orthodontist at the age of 12, having been inspired by experiencing fantastic care from her own dentist. She qualified as a dentist, from Newcastle University in 1989; completed her specialist training as an orthodontist in 1996 at Bristol University and was a Senior Registrar in Orthodontics at the Eastman Dental Hospital, accrediting as a Consultant in 2000.

Having purchased Queen’s Gate Orthodontics, South Kensington, London in 2012, she partnered with Dentex in 2021, now Portman-Dentex, where she remains the principal orthodontist, in addition to being an NHS Consultant at Watford General Hospital since 2004. She has treated thousands of children and adults with fixed braces, and several hundred patients with Invisalign. In addition to routine orthodontics, her special interests include working with jaw (orthognathic) surgeons to treat people with facial deformity and to relieve the symptoms of obstructive sleep apnoea. Consequent to the pandemic, she embraced technology and now 70% of her patients are treated with Invisalign and monitored using Dental Monitoring.

Claire is the UK specialist orthodontist for the Invisalign EMEA Advisory Group and a Key Opinion Leader for Dental Monitoring. She is also an accredited Expert Witness, Cardiff University, 2025 and provides expert advice for dento-legal cases.

Claire was President of the London Dental Fellowship, 2019 – 2021 and is Treasurer of the Women Dentists Network. She is passionate about both clinical orthodontics, and business processes. When not treating patients, she enjoys lecturing to dental societies, writing articles, and mentoring young people who wish to become dentists. Her hobbies include scuba diving, swimming, playing her clarinet and piano, stand-up comedy and trying, ineffectively, to get her children to tidy their bedrooms.

More information

Please email [email protected] with any dietary requirements.

Hallam Conference Centre, 44 Hallam Street, London W1W 6JJ

Oxford Suite - Third Floor

By bus
There are many buses stopping within a few minutes walk of Hallam Street, including numbers: 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 25, 88, 94, 137, 159, 189, 453 and C2.

By rail
Marylebone, Euston and 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 and City, Metropolitan – 5 minutes walk

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

Oxford Circus
Bakerloo, Central, Victoria – 5 minutes walk

Leave the Tube using Exit 4, which will bring you out on the North side of Oxford Street by Ikea. Walk North away from Oxford Circus with Ikea 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 the venue's 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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Here's what previous attendees have said about Metropolitan Branch evenings

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Learnt a lot, engaging speaker

Great presentation, enjoyed the interaction with audience