CDS Group West Midlands Division - Dentistry: An ever evolving journey

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08:30 Registration

08:50 Introduction and welcome

Sinuba Naidu, Chair, CDS West Midlands Division

09:00 Presidential address

         Graham Smith, CDS Group President 2024-2025

09:10 Considerations of cleft lip and palate

Victoria Clark, Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry

Aim

To share various aspects of 20 years’ experience working in the first designated cleft lip and palate centre in the UK.

Learning objectives

• To understand how and why designated cleft centres were set up in the UK
• To understand the aetiology of cleft lip and palate and the different presentations
• To recognise and know about the role of the MDT within a regional cleft team
• To understand the role of the paediatric dentist within the cleft team and care pathways
• To know about the caries experience in the cleft population collated by the paediatric dental cleft CEN.

Development outcomes - B, C and D

10:00 Dental trauma update

Anika Shah, STR in Paediatric Dentistry, Birmingham Dental Hospital and the Worcestershire Community Dental Services

Aims

To have a better understanding of the acute and long-term management of immature and mature permanent teeth that have sustained traumatic dental injuries.

Learning objectives

• Understand that different types of traumatic dental injuries
• Be able to undertake a thorough trauma assessment
• Have a better understanding of the acute management of trauma to permanent teeth
• Have a better understanding of the long-term management of trauma to permanent teeth
• Understand the potential sequalae of traumatic dental injuries and how the acute management affects the outcome.

Learning content

To explore the different types of traumatic dental injuries:

• Examination and investigations
• Splinting
• Vital pulp therapy
• Endodontics in teeth with immature apices
• Orthodontic and surgical extrusion
• Decoronation
• Resorption.

Development outcome - C

11:00 Refreshment break

11:30 Anaesthesia in outreach settings

Collette Augre, Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospitals Birmingham

Aims

To provide an outreach anaesthetic perspective on sedation and general anaesthesia for dental procedures in patients with learning disability. The aim is to explore the following salient points;

• The decision processes behind the choice of dental sedation versus general anaesthesia
• The anaesthetic processes involved in dental sedation and general anaesthesia
• Guidelines and regulations for anaesthetists providing sedation/general anaesthesia
• Minimum requirements to provide safe anaesthesia – staff, equipment, drugs
• Patient considerations - features that concern anaesthetists
• Environmental considerations
• The future.

Learning objectives

To understand patient selection, the anaesthetic assessment, and anaesthetic process of sedation and general anaesthesia. To provide an overview of the challenges faced in patients with learning disability undergoing sedation and general anesthesia. This will be covered through discussion of the following;

• The risk and benefit profile of sedation versus general anaesthesia
• How we as anaesthetists perform a pre-op assessment
• The pros and cons of pre-medication prior to sedation or general anaesthesia
• Other methods available to us – chemical and physical restraint, distraction techniques, even hypnosis!
• A summary of how we as anaesthetists perform sedation or general anaesthesia
• Anaesthetic agents required to provide safe sedation/general anaesthesia
• Anaesthetic equipment to provide safe sedation/general anaesthesia
• Top tips for dentists - what referral information do anaesthetists want to know?
• What specific co-morbidities, medications and anatomical features concern us?
• Things to consider when providing anaesthesia in remote sites
• Local case example
• The future – remimazolam.

Learning content

• Resources from local policies sourced from the combined work of the Birmingham Dental Hospital (part of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust) and the QEHB (part of the University Hospitals Birmingham)
• Academy of Medical Royal Colleges – safe sedation practice for healthcare procedure an update Feb 2021
• RCOA Chapter 7 guidelines for the provision of anaesthesia services in the non-theatre environment 2024
• Standards for conscious sedation in the provision of dental care (v1.1) 2020.

Development outcomes – B, C and D

12:30 Divisional AGM - BDA members only (lunch start for non-members)

13:00 Lunch

13:45 Patient and parent perspectives on Autism

Sylvia Stanway

Aims

• Overall theme of conference = Evolution
• Terminology in relation to autism
• Lived experience - for patient, parent, clinician
• Transition between child and adult services
• Person centred care
• Consistency of provision.

Learning objectives

• Increase understanding of invisible disability and different presentations
• Why they would still need a specialist service
• Person centred collaborative approach
• No assumptions.

        Development outcomes - A, B and D 

14:30 Dental materials - Amalgam update

Will Palin, Professor in Biomedical Materials Science and Director of Research, School of Dentistry, University of Birmingham

Aims

This session aims to provide an overview of the current and potential future status of dental silver amalgam use, and to discuss the advantages and limitations of alternative materials and related technologies.

Learning objectives

• To discuss the issues around current amalgam use and its potential impact for NHS dentistry
• To consider how alternative materials might best be used to ensure clinical success
• To review emerging technologies and potential materials of the future.

Learning content

After this session you will be able to:

• Explain the advantages and limitations of using alternative materials to dental amalgam
• Understand how materials chemistry and operator variability may affect the key properties of dental materials
• Describe how best to use modern materials in order to decrease the likelihood of premature failure
• Discuss the characteristics and properties of potential future materials and how they may help provide better alternatives to amalgam.

Development outcome - D

15:30 Refreshment break

15:45 Mindfulness and wellbeing in the work place

Will George, Mindfulness coach, Cambridge

Aims

This session explores the potential for mindfulness in Community Dentistry; enhancing individual and team well-being and performance and care for highly anxious patients. It will provide guidance for implementing everyday mindfulness practices in the workplace and supporting patients with a mindful and compassionate approach.

Learning objectives

• Understand the role of mindfulness as a foundational capacity for self-awareness, self-regulation and empathy, and in supporting mental health, resilience, effectiveness at work and patient relationships
• How to integrate mindfulness into the working day via mindful pausing, listening and connecting with colleagues
• How to use mindfulness practice to support highly anxious patients.

Learning content

• Explain the benefits of mindfulness in healthcare settings
• Guide a basic practice to take away and use everyday
• Introduce team mindfulness for cultivating presence and compassion at work (eg: mindful pausing and listening, wellbeing check-ins)
• Explore how trauma-informed mindfulness can support anxious patients and offers simple exercises for managing patient anxiety.

Development outcome - D

16:45 Close

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Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre

University of Birmingham, 53 Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham B15 2RS

Sustainability is a key focus for Edgbaston Park Hotel, and they encourage all attendees to consider environmentally friendly transportation options. As such, they highly recommend utilising public transport to reach them. Not only is it an eco-conscious choice, but it also offers the opportunity to network and engage with fellow attendees along the way.

The nearest train station is University, which is approximately a 13-minute walk through the leafy University of Birmingham Campus. The nearest bus stop is located just outside the front entrance of the hotel and services the X21 and X22 into Birmingham City Centre.

If you do wish to drive, they have limited complimentary car parking spaces onsite that are available on a first come first served basis, including four chargeable electric vehicle charging points and blue badge parking. Additional overflow spaces are available on the ground floor of the North East multi-storey car park located on Prichatts Road, a short walk from the hotel’s front entrance. Additional parking is available on the upper floors of the multi-storey car park, subject to a tariff charge of £7 per 10 hours. You may arrive and park your vehicle at any time during the day. Please register your vehicle on the table at the Conference and Events host desk in the main reception on arrival.