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19/11/2025 – Alginate Impressions
Posted in Dental Courses, Events and Simulation
Tagged Dental Nurse
Course Information
Date: 19/11/25
Time: 13:30 – 16:30
Completion Time: 3 Hours
Venue: School of Dentistry, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BA
Speakers: Caoimhe McVeigh
Course Description
Hands-on alginate impression taking course for Dental Nurses
Course Aims
- To provide the knowledge and skills to obtain dental impressions for the purpose of record, diagnosis, treatment planning, and oral appliance production.
Course Objectives
- Understand the method of impression taking and its rationale.
- Correctly choose and adjust impression trays to take alginate impressions.
- Take alginate impressions under a dentist’s prescription.
- Show correct care for patients who require to have alginate impressions recorded, including cross infection procedures.
Course Learning Content
This practical course is aimed to develop the DCP to take impressions to the prescription of a dentist or where appropriate a CDT.
GDC Development Outcomes
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