new animoto video to promote Invisalign.

I'm delighted to say that I've just completed a new animoto (http://www.animoto.com/) video to promote Invisalign. It is now on my website and e-zine . I'll be using it as an intro at my Invisalign open evening in Newbury next month.

My "Happy Air" teaching course

Well that's my teaching day over today, until the next one in June.

Despite a few audio-visual hiccups due to working in a new venue , I believe the delegates had a good day, judging from the thanks and feedback we received.

Six people travelled down from Barnsley, Three dentists and three nurses. Three attended from Surrey. One dentist and two nurses and one dentist came from Hampshire.

In addition we were joined by Janet and Chris Pickles of RA Medical Services Ltd. They are also base in Yorkshire and they were on hand to add their wealth of practical knowledge to add value for the delegates.

The Barnsley group were from an NHS practice and their course fees were funded by their local PCT.

Here are two of the feedback comments:

"Excellent course suitable for novices and experienced practitioners. Very enjoyable day."

"Really enjoyed the day. Everything I needed to know was covered and I will feel confident to use RA when I get back to work next week"

Here is the venue at Precision Dental Studio Thatcham. My thanks to the lab. Manager Richard Stock and one his technicians, David who gave up time on Saturday afternoon to show a group of the delegates around the lab.

Calm before the Storm?

Chris and I are resting this evening after a long day. This evening after finishing at the practice with two Invisalign cases, one starting and one review, we headed for Precision Dental Studio in Thatcham to set up for tomorrow's course.

This will be the 20th Hands-on course we have run, training other dentists and their teams in the benefits and techniques of Inhalation Sedation, also called RA or Happy Air.

This is a new venue for us as the numbers attending have outgrown our practice (for now at least). We are hosting a team of 6 from Yorkshire, 3 from Surrey and a single dentist from Andover. We are being joined by Laura Horton, a very entrepreneurial person. She originally trained as dental nurse and now runs a consultancy implementing a variety of in-house training programs for dental practices across the country. Laura expressed an interest in my courses and thought they may be of benefit to her clients, so she is coming along to find out for herself.

We are being joined by Janet and Chris Pickles of RA Medical Services , also joining us from Yorkshire, to assist the delegates in making their purchasing and servicin decisons. My thanks to them for supplying equipment for demonstration use for the day.

Finally thanks go to Dentaid a charity providing re-furbished dental equipement to the third world and voluntary organisations. They have agreed to loan a portable dental chair for the day to allow practical demonstrations.

To bed soon as we need to be at the venue bu 7.30 am !