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MELANIE DEMYSTIFIES DENTAL DIARY THERAPY FOR PATIENTS The therapeutic gradient, a medical A dental therapist from Leeds, Melanie Joyce, has cre- concept for actual dentistry? ated an initiative called DentalTherapistsRock! aimed by Dr Jean Pierre Attal at explaining to the public what a dental therapist is Date: 29 January 2013 and what they can do. Venue: BDA, London In November Ms Joyce launched a website, dental- Email: [email protected] therapistsrock.co.uk, which has already had over 600 www.ao.org hits as a result of her efforts creating a following PrimeSpeak: A New Way of via social media and attendance at the British Communicating with Patients Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapy’s (BSDHT's) Date: 18-19 January 2013 annual conference in Liverpool. Venue: St Johns Hotel, Birmingham ‘I wanted to set up this initiative as dental thera- www.primespeak.com/uk/ pists are still not widely known or understood by seminars/register the public,’ said Ms Joyce. ‘When you search on the in a mixed general practice in BDA Seminar - Preparing for Internet for information on what a dental therapist Leeds. She is also the North East retirement is, most of the available information includes quite Representative for the British Date: 1 February 2013 a lot of jargon and I feel is more for people who are Association of Dental Therapists Venue: Cedar Court Hotel, Huddersfield considering dental therapy as a career.’ She hopes that (BADT), to whom she went for Telephone: 020 7563 4590 dental professionals will direct patients to the website feedback prior to launching Email: [email protected] and that other dental therapists will spread the word the website. www.bda.org/seminars about DentalTherapistsRock! to show their support. To sign up to ‘Wearing away’ Ms Joyce qualified as a dental therapist in 2010 DentalTherapistsRock! and access by Prof David Bartlett after six years as a dental nurse and currently works free downloads and resources, visit Date: 12 February 2013 in the community dental service in Bradford and www.dentaltherapistsrock.co.uk. Venue: BDA, London Email: [email protected] www.ao.org On the Road to Better Aesthetics CAUSE FOR HONOURS, AWARDS, Date (Venue): 9 February 2013 (Coventry Transport Museum); 15 APPLAUSE APPOINTMENTS February 2013 (The Sage, Gateshead); Mercy Ships, the international Best employer 16 February 2013 (London Zoo) charity that provides free medical Dental 22, an NHS dental practice in Retford, has been Telephone: 0845 873 6299 care and humanitarian aid to some of named one of the East Midlands’ best employers in the Email: [email protected] the world’s poorest, celebrated World regional final of the National Apprenticeship Awards and Alpha Omega dental fraternity Smile Day by honouring the work National Training Awards 2012. Dental 22 was recognised in Jerusalem Conference of the volunteer dentists who treat the ‘Small Employer of the Year’ business category and was Date: 7-11 March 2013 thousands of patients every year. awarded ‘highly commended’. Email: [email protected] World Smile Day is dedicated to acts of kindness with the aim of helping Prosthodontics Association Masterclass in Special Care one person smile - and the volunteer Dr Fazal Ghani, Head of the Department of Prosthodontics Dentistry: 'Five Years On' dentists based on the world’s largest at the Khyber College of Dentistry, Peshawar, has Date: 14 March 2013 charity hospital ship, the Africa been elected President of the Pakistan Prosthodontics Venue: Royal College of Surgeons Mercy, are doing that for thousands Association for the term 2013-2014. Dr Ghani is also a England, London of the poorest people in West Africa. Fellow of the Faculty of Dentistry of the Royal College of Telephone: 020 7869 6815 Physicians & Surgeons Glasgow. Email: [email protected] The BDTA has honoured their promise to donate to three dental charities Postgraduate Director British Dental Conference if 20,000 people registered for Professor Angus Walls has accepted the post of Director and & Exhibition 2013 October’s Dental Showcase. The BDTA Chair of the University of Edinburgh’s Postgraduate Dental Date: 25-27 April 2013 donated £5,000 to be shared between Institute and will take up the appointment in January 2013. Venue: ExCel London Bridge2Aid, the British Dental www.bda.org/conference Health Foundation and Dentaid. Leadership Scholarship ADI Team Congress Neel Panchal and Katie Ernst, flexible learning postgraduate Lesley Naismith, Support Manager Date: 1-3 May 2013 students at King’s College London Dental Institute, have at Software for Excellence, put Venue: Manchester Central been announced as the recipients of the Henry Schein aside her fear of heights when she Convention Complex Leadership Scholarship for 2012. In addition, the Henry www.adi.org.uk/congress2013 parachuted to raise funds for a trip Schein Hardship Fund has been made to two students, one that will provide dental care for based in India, the other in Sudan. All the winning students orphaned children in Burma. will receive approximately half their tuition fees.