17/10/2025 – (ES) NIMDTA Dental Conference

Course Information

Completion Time: 6 Hours

Venue: Mossley Mill, Newtonabbey

Speakers: Caroline Lappin, Amanda Willis, Anthony Sinclair, Greig Taylor, Orlagh McPolin, Riaz Yar, Seamus Napier, Tina Calder.

Course Description

Conference with 2 parallel programmes “Focus on Diagnosis” and “Supporting Our Patients”

This course provides essential training in the recognition, prevention, and management of cardiopulmonary arrest, with a strong focus on early intervention and teamwork. Participants will learn to identify causes of deterioration, apply the ABCDE assessment approach, and perform high-quality CPR, defibrillation, and basic airway manoeuvres to support patient survival and recovery.

In addition to clinical skills, the course emphasizes the importance of non-technical competencies such as leadership, communication, and effective team dynamics during emergency situations. These skills are vital for coordinating care, making timely decisions, and ensuring a structured response to medical emergencies in any healthcare setting.

Course Aims

• Focus on Diagnosis Aim – To provide dental professionals with an opportunity to reflect on the process of patient diagnosis in General Dental Practice and discover techniques to assist them to do this more effectively. “Supporting our Patients” Aim to provide dental care professionals with an opportunity to reflect and improve how to support patients in general dental practice.

Course Objectives

• Focus on Diagnosis – Objectives By the end of the conference you will be able to:
• Identify occlusal issues and how this impacts your patient diagnosis
• Explore the area of temporal mandibular disfunction and when to refer patients and what resources are available to assist patients.
• Identify when patients may be suffering from sleep disorders, how and when to refer.
• Explore using artificial intelligence tools to assist you within your practice.
• Review the use of cone beam imaging within dentistry
• Identify how to manage carious 6’s in general dental practice including the painful tooth.
• Address the issues of interfacing with laboratories and interactively identify clinicopathological biopsies, white/ red patches and oral malignancies. “Supporting our Patients” – Objectives By the end of the conference you will be able to:
• Outline the Northern Ireland Children’s Oral Health Improvement Plan and Older Person’s Oral Health Improvement Plan.
• Review what neurodiversity means and reflect on patients treated within general practice.
• Identify key tips for getting paediatric nervous patients into the dental chair.
• Recognise patients with dementia and consider management and consent within general practice.
• Identify skills to support deaf and hard of hearing people.

Course Learning Content

“Focus on Diagnosis” Learning content: This conference will be mainly lecture based giving an opportunity to reflect and grow in relation to how to diagnose and correctly refer patients within general practice. “Supporting our Patients” Learning content

This conference will be mainly lecture based giving an opportunity to reflect and grow in relation to how to support patients in general practice.

GDC Development Outcomes

• Focus on Diagnosis – ABCD
• Supporting our patients – ABCD

Resources

Dietary Requirements

Please advise the Dental Foundation Training Team DentalFoundation.nimdta@hscni.net if you have any dietary requirements.

 

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