Sutton Coldfield Section: Safe oral surgery in general dental practice

What to expect

Join us for an insightful lecture updating general dental practitioners on current UK guidance and evidence-based principles for the safe provision of oral surgery in primary dental care, with particular emphasis on the assessment and management of medically compromised patients, recognition of clinical limits and appropriate referral to oral surgery in secondary care.

Recognise the limits of your own competence and identify when to seek advice, involve an experienced clinician or refer to secondary care.

Timings

18:30 Registration and refreshments

19:00 The oral cancer journey - Sukhvinder Atthi

20:30 Q&A and networking

21:00 End 

Learning objectives

• Apply current UK guidance and principles to the assessment and management of patients requiring dental extraction and minor oral surgery

• Assess medical and medication-related risk and modify treatment planning for medically compromised patients

• Assess the clinical and radiographic complexity of surgical extractions.

Development outcomes

A, B, C, D

Meet the speaker

Sukhvinder is a dentist with special interests in oral surgery, orthodontics and dental sedation. He currently works part time OS lecturer at the Birmingham Dental Hospital and also holds a Tier II accreditation in Oral Surgery where he’s works alongside GDP referrals. He is the divisional board member for CGDent West Midlands and lectures locally and nationally for HEE including DFT’s. He was an ES for over 15 years and recently sold his dental practice that he owned and managed for 18 years. He is closely involved with the mentoring of dental professionals including recent graduate. Currently part of working party developing the Certified Practitioner in OS for GDP under CGDENT.