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IN-PERSON EVENT, hosted by the Epsom and Sutton Section

What to expect

Join the Epsom and Sutton Section for registration, networking, and pizza at 19:00, followed by a lecture by Wendy Bellis which aims to improve skills in behaviour management for the young and anxious child in the dental surgery.

Timings

19:00 Registration, networking and pizza

19:30 Lecture - Wendy Bellis

21:00 End

Learning objectives

  • Investigate and explore the factors which impact on the behaviour of children in the dental surgery
  • Recognise good practice in relation to the management of young and anxious children in the dental surgery
  • Acknowledge elements in your personal style which contribute towards success and failure in managing these children.

Development outcomes

A and C

Meet the speaker

Wendy Bellis 250X250 Wendy Bellis Honorary Clinical Senior Teaching Fellow, Eastman Dental Institute

Qualified as a dental surgeon since 1979 (London), MSc. Paediatric Dentistry Eastman Dental Institute, London 1983, Fellow of The Higher Education Academy(2007).

Wendy Bellis is an Honorary Clinical Senior Teaching Fellow at the Eastman Dental Institute, London. Since 1985 she worked in the Community Dental Service in Camden and Islington (Whittington Health) in London and has gained extensive experience of working with children who have special needs.

Her areas of expertise are “Behaviour Management for Children in the Dental Surgery” and “The Dental Management of the Autistic Child”. She has been responsible for the teaching modules on Behaviour Management at a postgraduate level on the MSc/MClin.Dent/Doctorate programmes in Paediatric Dentistry at the Eastman Dental Institute for over 20 years. Her clinical work has almost exclusively been in the field of autistic spectrum disorder, with autistic children representing 90% of her clinical case load.

Combining her knowledge and experience in these fields she lectures widely on these subjects nationally and internationally, contributing chapters to current and well known textbooks in general and paediatric dentistry. Dr Bellis is responsible for the content of the new leaflet for parents of autistic children which was published on the website for the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry.

More information

Please email [email protected] with any dietary requirements.

Would you be interested in getting involved in the Epsom and Sutton Section?

We are looking for enthusiastic members to join the Epsom and Sutton Section committee as general committee members. A role on the committee is a great way to get involved in the BDA at a local level and to help provide and shape local educational and networking events. It’s also great to have on your CV!

A brief description of the different roles in a committee is available here

The Section has the support of the centrally-based Local Services team who are on hand to help and advise on any aspect of running the Section and planning events.

If interested, or for more information, please contact Pam Noon at the event, or email us at [email protected]

​If you feel at all unwell, we encourage you to take a lateral flow test the evening before you are due to arrive - should your test result be positive, we ask you not to attend.

If your test is negative, but you do have symptoms of COVID-19 (a new, persistent cough; a high temperature; or loss/changes to your sense of taste or smell) we kindly request you consider not attending the event to mitigate any risk to other attendees.

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Read the feedback from a previous lecture by Wendy Bellis

Greeted by the team and made to feel welcome, the speaker was excellent!

The presentation was full of practical tips and useful resources

Wendy is clearly passionate about her work and cares about her patients, she provided a lot of useful information

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