Training at King’sProfessor David Bartlett – Prosthodontics

Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences

Features of the Prosthodontics course ▪ Full-time (3 year - 5 days/week or 4 year – 3 days/week) course

▪ UK/EU tend to follow 4 year course

▪ In total our trainees provide

▪ 4500 crowns per year

▪ 300 dentures

▪ £3,000,000 implants

▪ 7000 patient visits per year

Provides clinical experience ▪ Conventional partial and complete dentures (20 each)

▪ Minimal preparation bridges (5-10)

▪ Management of tooth wear, aesthetics, increases in OVD, re-organised occlusion (4-5

big cases)

▪ Implant supported crowns, bridges and dentures (20 each)

▪ Evidence based approach

▪ CADCAM

Year 1▪ Core course

▪ Overview of NHS, GSTT processes and procedures

▪ Combined approach to restorative knowledge and other specialties

▪ Prosthodontic specialty knowledge

▪ Evidence based assessment of the literature

▪ Phantom head course

▪ Laboratory course on dentures and crowns

▪ Introduction to clinical care

Year 2▪ Further training in clinical cases

▪ Start implant care with simple cases

▪ Commence more complex care with prosthodontics

▪ Conventional care and learn how to provide excellence in prosthodontics

▪ Research project

▪ Provide lab work for patients

▪ Temporaries/ provisionals

▪ Diagnostic wax ups

▪ Stents, michigan splints

Year 3 and 4▪ Further clinical experience

▪ Consultant clinics – interdisciplinary care

▪ Start to achieve confidence in some areas

▪ Own diagnostics and mock ups

▪ Focus on cases for exit exam

▪ Written exams in May and June con-joint with MRD

The largest specialist training centre for endodontics

in the world (probably!)

Professor Francesco Mannocci

Endodontology

• 29 specialist trainees in endodontics

• 20 full time and part time members of staff

• Two separate locations in Guy’s and King’s College Hospitals

• Intense exposure to trauma cases at KCH

• One of the most intense clinical exposures in the world of endodontics

• Brand new facilities

Endodontology

• Research projects include many clinical trials

• Close collaboration with 4 PhD students

• Close collaboration with the online MSc programme in endodontics

• Free access to the online material of the MSc in endodontics

PeriodontologyProfessor Luigi Nibali

“Why” Periodontology at King’s?• Very important discipline at the basis of Oral Health

• Detailed knowledge of evidence-base to inform treatment

• Exposure to a wide range of clinical cases and scenarios

• Exposure to multidisciplinary settings and cases

• Exposure to advanced research settings and procedures

• Teaching from recognised World experts in the field

• Potential to maintain a connection with Periodontology Unit at the end of the programme

Variety of clinical experience • Treatment of moderately and severely compromised cases• Treatment of patients with advanced periodontal and restorative needs• Treatment of patients who are extremely susceptible to periodontal problems

• Non-surgical therapy/ motivational therapy

• Surgical therapies:• Access flap surgeries• Minimally-invasive techniques• Regenerative techniques• Periodontal plastic surgery• Alveolar ridge reconstruction• Microsurgical procedures

• Implant placement and restoration

• Restorative dentistry

• Interactions with Endodontics, Prosthodontics, Oral Medicine, Orthodontics and Sedation

Year 1 (of 4-year programme)*• Core course

• Overview of NHS, GSTT processes and procedures• Combined approach to restorative knowledge and other specialties• Periodontology specialty knowledge• Evidence based assessment of the literature and biometrics

• Phantom head course

• Introduction to clinical care

• Clinical Treatment

• New patient clinics

• Tutorials, seminars and case presentations

• Weekly journal clubs

• Start research project

*the course components for the 3-year programme are compressed into 3 years.

Year 2 (of 4-year programme)*

• Seminars, tutorials, implant training, research seminars

• Weekly journal clubs

• Clinical treatment

• Simple surgical cases

*the course components for the 3-year programme are compressed into 3 years.

Year 3 (of 4-year programme)*

• Seminars

• Weekly journal clubs

• Complex surgical cases/ develop advanced surgical techniques

• Commence implant and multidisciplinary cases

• Monthly case presentations and discussion

*the course components for the 3-year programme are compressed into 3 years.

Year 4 (of 4-year programme)*

• Monthly case presentations and discussion

• Weekly journal clubs

• Complete advanced surgical, implant and restorative cases

• Complete research project

• Complete audits

• Examinations

*the course components for the 3-year programme are compressed into 3 years.

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