One of the special services we offer for our anxious patients is RA (Relative Analgesia) or "happy air "and I have over 25 years of experience in this wonderful technique.
This year I began the first of what I hope will turn out to be regular full day Saturday seminars to teach other dentists the benefits and techniques involved. Dentists from as far as Jersey and from the prestigious Cherrybank Dental Spa Practice in Perth in Scotland have made their way to our practice at St Mary's House in Newbury.
These full day courses were run in Februray,June and October 2004.
We have turned the waiting lounge into a seminar room and the delegates have enjoyed a full day of PowerPoint seminar presentations , practical "hands-on" experience and demonstrations relayed via video link from the surgery . Many thanks to Chris for all her help in organising and running these courses.
Published articles
More on RA .....
As a result of the interest raised by and also, in part, to help market these RA courses, I have had a 2-part article on the subject commissioned and published in a quality subscription dental journal in the Spring of 2004 called "Private Dentistry". The articles merited continual professional development credits and were circulated to about UK 6000 subscribers.
These two articles were later republished in December in a broadsheet fortnightly magazine called, imaginatively, "Dentistry" and sent to all UK dentists (Over 30,000). My article covered two and a half pages.
Dental Implant Seminar Report
In November, Chris and I attended an evening seminar on a particular and novel way of using dental implants. The UK marketing director of NobelBiocare approached me to write a report on the meeting.
This full page report was duly published in the same December issue of "Dentistry" as my RA article ( see above) and so we are certainly on the map now !
British Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry (BAAD)
As I have done for each of the last 10 years, I attended this year's 3 -day annual conference, held this year in Eastbourne. The BAAD conference brings together like-minded dentists from all over the UK and some from abroad too to listen and be taught by some of the world's leading experts in this increasingly complex but very interesting field of dentistry.
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