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IN-PERSON EVENT, hosted by the Kingston and District Section

What to expect

Join the Kingston and District Section for networking and light refreshments at 19:00, followed by a lecture by Joanna Zakrzewska which will appreciate that not all oral pain is of dental origin, and the value of a screening tool for non-dental pain.

Timings

19:00 Registration, networking and light refreshments

19:30 Lecture 

20:30 End 

Learning objectives

  • Revise the key features of pain
  • Identify and discuss four different non-dental diagnosis based on patient histories
  • Discuss a potential screening tool for diagnosis of non-dental pain in primary dental practice.

Development outcome

C, D

Meet the speaker

Joanna Zakrzewska 250X250 Joanna Zakrzewska Professor

Joanna is both dentally and medically trained Kings College and Cambridge), Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine .  Between 2007- 2015 she set up the largest award winning UK multi-disciplinary facial pain service at UCLH, London. Now part time consultant at UCLH, Cleveland Clinic London  and running the national Trigeminal Neuralgia Institute. She has written six books contributed to 28 chapters, written over 200 peer reviewed papers and has been rated as the top expert in trigeminal neuralgia in the world. She has given over 100 invited talks in 30 countries.

More information

Please email [email protected] with any dietary requirements.

Would you be interested in getting involved in the Kingston and District Section?

We are looking for enthusiastic members to join the Kingston and District Section committee as general committee members and a new Chair. 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 Andrew White 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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Convenient time and location, excellent topic and lecture

Informative and interactive-face to face

Very engaging speakers and great organisation