CPD Courses
Are you in need of verifiable and/or unverifiable CPD course for technicians?
Whatever your requiements for dental CPD, Wrights are here to help. We are proud to be partnered with leading UK and Global manufacturers. Our CPD Courses page helps you browse all the latest CPD courses and events happening in your area.
There’s more… Now partnering with FMC and MyCPDZone you can read one of many GDC core subject articles on our website, pay just £10, answer the CPD questions, earn your certificate, and claim verifiable CPD hours. Simple!
CPD courses
Laboratory Business
Effective laboratory = dentist communication
Effective laboratory = dentist communication
Author: Ashley Byrne
Educational aims and objectives: The aim is to highlight to the technician the importance of communicating effectively with the dentist. Give a number of different options for communicating effectively with the dentist. Effective laboratory = dentist communication.
Anticipated outcomes: Technicians will be revitalised to find better ways to communicate with dentist clients.
Restorative Dentistry
Restoring severely discoloured anterior teeth using minimally invasive procedures
Author: Daniel Edelhoff and Oliver Brix
Educational aims and objectives: To teach the reader how to create a restoration for severely discoloured anterior teeth using a solution promoting minimally invasive preparation.
Anticipated outcomes: The reader will learn a new technique for producing restorations sympathetic to minimally invasive dentistry.
Restoration of upper central incisors
Author: Paul Gerrard
Educational aims and objectives: The aim is to show the reader with step‐by‐step illustrations a different technique for providing aesthetic zone prosthetics.
Anticipated outcomes: The technician will have the knowledge to attack aesthetic solutions on upper incisors with added confidence.
Prosthodontics
Technical fixed prosthodontics: time to change the status quo?
Technical fixed prosthodontics
Author: Gordon J Christensen and Paul L Child Jr
Educational aims and objectives: The aim of this article is to explain the current methods in the US to accomplish fixed prosthodontic procedures.
Anticipated outcomes:
- Be able to assess and evaluate their prosthodontic procedures.
- Learn about the products used in conventional techniques and new digital methods.
- Follow the suggestions from the authors about the benefits of various products.
GDC Core Subjects
Oral Cancer – The importance of oral medicine
Our need for it and its relevance in oral cancer detection.
Complaints Handling – Avoid that face-off
Why ‘thinking’ resolution rather that ‘complaint’ can make all the difference.
Legal/Ethical Issues – The devil in you
A skill that can make us feel uncomfortable but often is a mission accomplished without realising: ethical selling
Radiography and Radiation Protection – Greater exposure to IRMER
Radiography regulations in practice – including IRMER.
Disinfection and Decontamination – MRSA: stopping infection before it starts
A review of superbug MRSA, referencing what we should be doing in practice to continue to keep this bug out.
Medical Emergencies – Keep Calm and Carry on
Medical emergencies in surgery include panic attacks
Medical Emergencies – Affairs of the heart
Cardiac emergencies in surgery and how to deal with them