Free-to-attend NSK Ikigai workshops
Piezoelectric Advanced Instrumentation and Air-Powder Polishing Systems + Implant Care.
This year’s Scottish Dental Show sees the return of NSK’s popular hands-on workshops, hosted by NSK Ikigai educators Siobhan Kelleher, Lauren Long and Jenny Walker.
There are two on-stand sessions which will run alternately during Friday and Saturday.
- Piezoelectric Advanced Instrumentation and Air-Powder Polishing Systems – looking at piezo tip selection, air-polishing and the powders available.
- Implant Care – an introduction to implant instrumentation.
There are spaces for eight delegates for each of the nine workshops over the two days. The initial allocation has been booked but additional spaces will be released in due course and delegates can also visit NSK on stand C07 at the Scottish Dental Show to check on availability.
Siobhan Kelleher is a multi-award-winning dental hygienist and is the clinical and programme lead for the Ikigai Oral Hygiene Programme. She is an accredited Eduqual course provider and created the Postgraduate Diploma in Oral and Positive Health – level 7, the first globally.
Lauren Long is a dental therapist with more than 15 years’ experience, working exclusively in private practice in Edinburgh. She is a Clinical Educator and KOL for NSK, Smile Dental Academy and LM Instruments. Lauren founded the Scottish Dental Therapist Network to bring increased education for Therapists and Hygienists in Scotland and is Clinical Director for the Pain Free Dentistry Group.
Jenny Walker is a dental therapist working in a peri-implant disease referral practice and DCP-led practice where she is one of the clinical leads. Jenny has helped devise and deliver courses for hygienists and therapists on the management of implant patients and also lectures on the MSc in dental implantology in Manchester.
The two hands-on workshops are free to attend and will alternate throughout the two days of the show. There is space for six to eight delegates at each workshop and registered participants will be awarded CPD for each session attended.
Delegates will use the Varios Combi Pro during the workshops and be given technique tips from Siobhan, Lauren and Jenny. The Varios Combi Pro with its iPiezo® engine, combines ultrasonic scaling and powder therapy in one compact unit. The slim, lightweight powder therapy handpieces provide excellent accessibility and manoeuvrability, and the powder therapy chambers (with their respective handpieces) easily slot in and out at the touch of a button.
Booking for the Scottish Dental Show’s education programme is now open, providing delegates with the opportunity to earn up to 10 hours of CPD. The programme features all of the GDC’s recommended and highly recommended topics:
- 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.
It also features lectures and workshops on clinical expertise, dental education, wellbeing and sustainability – plus, the business and finances of dentistry.
The free-to-attend Scottish Dental Show will be held at Braehead Arena on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 June. You can register now, or log in to your registration account and book your education seminars.
The event is attended by more than 2,000 delegates who have the opportunity to gain CPD hours, network with colleagues and meet representatives from more than 120 dental supply and advisory companies.
With thanks to our Scottish Dental Show Platinum Sponsor NSK, our Gold Sponsors Barclays Bank and Wrights – the Dental Supply Company, Silver sponsors A-dec, Real Good Dental, Kalyani Dental Lounge and Bronze Sponsor Scrubs UK.