The General Practice Foundation Mentoring Programme

1. Conduct a comprehensive examination

• Take a thorough history and examination
• Know what investigations to undertake
• Record keeping

2. Diagnose

• Understand all relevant investigations to form a diagnosis
• Taking and reporting on radiographs
• Differential diagnoses
• Joining all components together to form a diagnosis
• Explaining diagnosis to patients

3. Treatment Plan

• Explaining options to patients
• Logically creating a care plan
• Be able to translate risks and benefits associatedThe importance of patient communication

• Staging treatment
• Discussing what is available on the NHS and privatly
• Banding systems
• Rules and regulations within the NHS
• Working with the wider dental team
• When and how to refer

• What is Periodontitis?
• Screening
• Assessment
• Special investigations
• Diagnosis and Prognosis
• Treatment Planning
• Practical

• To understand the basic composition of amalgam and composite
• Identify properties of amalgam and composite as a restorative material
• Advantages, disadvantages and material’s  limitations
• To have adequate knowledge on the literature associated
• Is amalgam safe to use? How to dismantle people’s reservations and doubts
• To understand the differences in cavity preparation depending on material selection
• To be able to effectively prepare a tooth for a restoration

Aims:

• To gain knowledge and understanding on the assessment of an oral surgery patient in primary care
• To gain knowledge and understanding of medical factors which influence the care of the oral surgery patient
• To understand the need to work within competencies and when and how to refer patients to another provider
• To understand and enhance knowledge on the consent process surrounding oral surgery procedures
• Improve basic oral surgery skills such as routine extractions and suturing skills

• Material selection
• Managing heavily broken down teeth
• Deciding between Only vs Crown
• Protocols for crown and onlay preparations
• Perfecting margins
• Conventional impressions and digital scanning
• Hands-on practical carrying out crown preparations on phantom heads
• Soft tissue management
• Shade selection and stump shades
• Temporisation
• Cementation technique and material selection

• Gain an understanding of the importance of the pre-endodontic assessment in order to achieve the correct diagnosis, treatment plan and assess case complexity prior to endodontic treatment.
• Gain an evidence-based approach to the principles of contemporary NiTi instrumentation; from access cavity and canal location to predictable mechanical instrumentation.
• An overview of endodontic irrigation and intracanal medication and its importance in endodontic success.
• Gain an overview of endodontic outcomes and the factors that affect long term success and survival of endodontic cases.
• An update on obturation of the root treated teeth and methods of obturation.
• When to place a fibre post and bonding protocols to enable long term success.

• Material Selection
• Managing heavily broken down teeth
• Protocols for anterior preparations
• Perfecting the margins
• Conventional impressions and digital scanning
• Soft tissue management
• Shade selection and stump shades
• Temporisation
• When to crown

• Understand reasons for using rubber dam for certain clinical procedures
• Appreciate the place for rubber dam in everyday dentistry
• Build awareness of essential tools needed
• Get to know the criteria for equipment selection
• Learn quick and easy techniques for the reliable, efficient and consistent placement of rubber dam
• Understand the role of the dental nurse in using rubber dam
• Develop a predictable methodology to isolate the operation field, even in difficult situations