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IN-PERSON EVENT, hosted by the Metropolitan Branch

What to expect

This lecture will explore the challenges, obstacles and barriers to delivering emergency care following dental injuries in neurodivergent paediatric patients.

During the evening, the Branch Annual General Meeting will be taking place, all BDA members are encouraged to attend.

Timings

17:45 Registration and refreshments

18:30 Lecture - Ghaida Al-Jaddir

20:00 End of lecture and networking

20:30 Close

Learning objectives

  • Discuss scenarios of dental injury presentation and their treatment in different dental clinical settings
  • Share knowledge and skills of adapting dental trauma guidelines for managements and dental treatment in neurodiverse paediatric patients.

Development outcome

C

Meet the speaker

Ghaida Al-Jaddir Senior Paediatric Dental Consultant and Clinical Lead, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Ghaida graduated from Baghdad Dental School/University of Baghdad Iraq BDS. She gained Statuary exam requalification from the GDC in England and Trained as a Specialist in Paediatric Dentistry at the Royal London Hospital. She completed her Master’s in Clinical Dentistry at Queen Mary and Westfield Medical College. Gained both MFDS and FDS (Paediatric Dentistry) from the Royal College of Physician and Surgeon in Glasgow. Completed Diploma in Higher Education and teaching from Kings College.

Ghaida has been a Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for the last 12 years and a Consultant at The Royal Brompton Hospital (Paediatric Cardiac and Respiratory Centre).

She is an Examiner for the ORE exams for the GDC and a previous examiner for MPaed Dent and ISFE in Paediatric Dentistry for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow.

Previously she has been a Lecturer in Paediatric Dentistry for undergraduate and post graduate students at The Royal London Hospital and King’s College Dental Schools. She has also been the Chair of the South East Branch of the BSPD (2022-2023).

An education supervisor and clinical lead at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Head of the Dental Department at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and Service Director of Paediatric Surgical Subspecialty at West London Hospital.

Ghaida gained an MBA with distinction from Ashridge/Hult International Business School.

She was awarded Asian Woman of the Year in 2021.

More information

Please email [email protected] with any dietary requirements.

Would you be interested in getting involved with the Metropolitan Branch?

We are looking for enthusiastic members to join the Metropolitan Branch as general Branch council 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 Nazli Imtiaz 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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