The Scottish Dental Show 2024: See you there!

The Scottish Dental Show is back on 31 May – 1 June with a bustling exhibition floor and a world-class education programme

12 February, 2024 / indepth
Will Peakin Mike Wilkinson

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With more than 140 exhibition stands and an education programme delivered by a handpicked selection of world-class speakers, The Scottish Dental Show is a must-attend event for the profession.

Exhibitors will be demonstrating the latest technology and developments in dentistry as well as sharing best practices in the areas of law, finance and life planning.

Thank you from the team here at Scottish Dental to all the exhibitors who have booked stands so far; there are more than 80, which puts the show floor at two-thirds capacity with three months to go. The Education Programme will feature lecture and workshop sessions on more than 20 areas of clinical expertise.

Plus, there are sessions dedicated to dental nurses, hygienists, therapists, and practice managers. The business and finances of dentistry will be covered by experts in their field. The programme will also include a briefing on the latest in regulation and an update from the Scottish Government on the reform of NHS dentistry.

Speakers include Simon Crewe, Forensic Odontologist, and Brian Millar, Professor of Blended Learning in Dentistry at King’s College London.

Plus, there will be Tariq Ali, Tariq Bashir, Lisa Bainham, Chris Barrowman, David Claridge, Flo Couper, Lisa Currie, Abid Faqir, John Gibson, James Green, Mike Gow, Phil Friel, Siobhan Kelleher, Gillian Leslie, Lauren Long, Audrey Kershaw, Fiona McAndrews, Nicole McKee, Illona McLay, John McQueen, Peter Mossey, Barry Oulton, Carol Rafferty, Kayleigh Robinson, Andrea Rodriguez, Khuram Shafiq and Paul Tipton.

The programme also covers all eight of the GDC’s Highly Recommended and Recommended topics:

A lecturer delivers a hands-on training session.

Medical Emergencies
Disinfection and decontamination
Radiography and Radiation Protection
Legal and Ethical Issues
Complaints Handling
Oral Cancer: early detection
Safeguarding Children and Young People
Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults.

GDC topic speakers include Nick Beacher, Stuart Clark, Aubrey Craig, Mark Greenwood, Jane Holt, Mike Lewis, Jim McCaul, Christine Park, Emma Riley, Suzanne Riordan and Julie Willis. The education programme at the Scottish Dental Show 2024 can provide up to nine hours of verifiable Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in compliance with the General Dental Council’s Enhanced CPD scheme regulations.

A selection of presentations

Smile Design: how to design and create
aesthetic restorations – by Brian Millar
Aim: to provide a deeper understanding of how
to design and create aesthetic restorations in the
smile zone.
The Essentials of Tooth Preparation – by Paul Tipton
Aim: to provide delegates with a modern overview of accurate and detailed tooth preparation techniques.
Intraoral Scanning: Successful Adoption – by David Claridge
Aim: to understand how digital workflows and digital-focused clinical days can easily pay for your hardware investment, and then deliver profit and reduce chair time and stress.
Hypermobility and Dentistry – by Audrey Kershaw
Aim: to improve awareness of the relevance of hypermobility syndromes to dentistry and give an understanding of common dentally relevant comorbidities of hypermobility syndrome.
Human factors in dentistry – by Aubrey Craig
Aim: to enable you to drive positive change and reduce your own and your team’s risk, when providing dental care.
Bite Club: the first rules of creating an outstanding patient journey – by Lisa Bainham
Aim: to introduce a set of rules for creating an outstanding patient journey, to apply them effectively within a general practice setting.

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* Lecture and workshop booking will be available in the coming weeks.

Scottish Dental Show: Enhanced CPD outcomes

In the Enhanced CPD scheme, specific standards for the dental team are brought to the forefront of CPD planning and activity through four development outcomes. These outcomes encourage you to link learning activities more closely to the standards and help you embed the principles further in your working life. The four development outcomes are set out below:

Outcome A

Effective communication with patients, the dental team and others across dentistry, including when obtaining consent, dealing with complaints and raising concerns when patients are at risk.

Outcome B

Effective management of self and effective management of others or effective work with others in the dental team, in the interests of patients; providing constructive leadership where appropriate.