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News Meeting. Paul Tipton is guest speaker as capital plays host to country’s first study club
The BARD plays to Edinburgh crowd
Dr Paul Tipton was the guest speaker at the first study club meeting to be held in Scotland for the British Academy of Restorative Dentistry (BARD) recently. The Edinburgh study club was
held at the Apex European Hotel in the capital where more than 20 dentists heard a comprehensive overview on bridge design from one of the most respected names in the country. The Edinburgh branch of the
BARD is chaired by Midlothian GDP Stuart Campbell, principal at Loanhead Dental Practice. He was delighted to welcome Dr Tipton, who is president of the academy, to Scotland to hear him speak. He said: “The feedback from
all the attendees was very good. It was very well received. Bridge design is a massive subject and he managed to condense it into two hours and gave us a compre- hensive overview of every type of bridge, their preparations, indica-
tions and contra-indications for most situations. “Paul manages to make the
complex simple and he brings things back to first principles so that, while you may look at some of his slides and the treatment plans he is carrying out and think they appear to be very complex, he breaks them down into their component parts so it is easier to understand.” Stuart has known Dr Tipton for
about four years after attending a number of his year-long restorative courses in Manchester. He explained that the aim is to hold quarterly meetings with top speakers, but if the study club is successful, he hasn’t ruled out running post-graduate courses up in Scotland. He said: “The BARD offers post-
graduate awards to dentists in the form of certificates, diplomas and even an MSc in conjunction with the University of Warwick. At the moment that would involve attending courses down south.
Three steps to managing risk
ROADSHOW
The 2012 Dental Protection (DPL) Horizons roadshow rolled into Inverness and Stirling in May with the aim of making delegates think differently about risk management. DPL’s Scottish head of dental services Hugh Harvie (pictured) and Dundee graduate and dento-legal adviser Alasdair McKelvie presented ‘Three steps to heaven’, a seminar aimed at providing practical advice to help dental professionals in practice, as well as keeping them safe from the various dento- legal threats and challenges they are likely to face throughout their careers.
Topics covered on the night included the
importance of rapport – complaints and liti- gation are far less likely in patients who like you or think that you like them, for example; the principles of valid consent and how to avoid suggestions that patients were ‘talked into’ treatment.
Other areas Hugh and Alasdair covered included the dos and don’ts of effective, reflective listening; working within your competence; and cases from the files of DPL from around the world illustrating the importance of good record keeping and how utilising other members of the team can make a big differ- ence when it comes to the overall quality and value of the records you are keeping.
“If we get enough interest, I know Paul would be keen to look into the possibility of doing something in Scotland, if we can get the numbers”
However, if we get enough interest, I know Paul would be keen to look into the possibility of doing some- thing in Scotland, if we can get the numbers.”
® For more information on the BARD and future study clubs in Scotland, visit
www.BARD.org.uk
Antimicrobial
prescribing The Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) launched its new standards book; Anti- microbial Prescribing for General Dental Practitioners, at the British Dental Conference and Exhi- bition on 27 April. Dean of the FGDP(UK) Russ Ladwa said: “This is a very timely book. I was at a talk on the non-surgical treatment of periodontal disease, where the speaker talked about the over-prescription and misuse of antimicrobials. As a profession, we need to ensure that antimicrobials are only prescribed when necessary and in the right dosage.”
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