Conference 2023 – The Future is Now!
Conference 2023 will be held in Hamilton at Sky City Hamilton, 346 Victoria Street, Hamilton Central, Hamilton 3204.
September 21-23 – Thursday for workshops and Friday, Saturday for conference sessions and booth displays.
This will be epic! The supply companies and our members alike are looking forward to getting together again.
Workshops Thursday 21 September 2023
Simon Ashworth sponsored by Kulzer
Andrew Cameron sponsored by Ivoclar
Simon Ashworth
Workshop design demo and hands on – assemble and characterise full denture carded and printed teeth
Workshop – Digital Decision pt1
Simon is presenting this lively and challenging workshop to support your digital decision, teaching his methods to combine digital dental technology with a traditional full denture workflows. How to capture the required data – best practice. Learn to create a dental appliance using digital and analogue processes.
Including
• How to capture the required data – best practice.
- Create a full denture using digital and analogue materials.
• How to under complicate digital workflows, including custom trays, splints & models
Hands on opportunity to access all the settings needed to replicate Simon’s verified workflows making it easy for you to create amazing digital dentures both Full and Partial
You will also get a glimpse inside the Kulzer support and education package that’s included with Kulzer Digital System.
Bio
Simon Ashworth is an accomplished clinical dental technician with nearly 40 years’ experience. He has studied extensively in the fields of both fixed and removable prosthetics and is a passionate educator and KOL of emerging technologies. As a clinical and technical instructor for more than 15 years he has presented over 100 workshops and has lectured in 15 countries around the world.
Simon is based in northern NSW and is currently using his experience to develop application based solutions for the integration of digital dentistry into main stream protocols. With a touch of humour he shares his insights into the learning curve of digital transformation – the highs and the lows.
Simon’s ability and thirst for excellence has kept him at the forefront of his field and he continues to be a highly sought after and respected lecturing clinician. `
One-Day Course
Speaker: Andrew Cameron
Date & Time: Thursday 21 September, 2023 | 7.45 AM – 4:45 PM
Course Overview:
In this course, targeted at novices of intra oral scanning for partially and completely edentulous patients, a clinical and technical approach will be presented. Participants will undertake clinical training on live patients and simulated cases. How to use the hardware and software of the scanner will be covered as well as a variety of clinical techniques aimed at delivering optimal clinical outcomes.
Participants will scan patients under the close supervision of the demonstrator with feedback being provided. After the clinical activities participants will be trained in utilising these scans to design a variety of devices and prosthesis in order to facilitate various clinical situations. Participants will each have their own computer. The scanners used for this course will be Trios 3 and 4 and design applications will utilise the 3Shape Dental System.
Bio
Andrew Cameron currently holds the position of Lecturer in Dental Technology at Griffith Universities School of Dentistry and Oral Health, Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Dental Technology, a Master in Dental Technology in Prosthetics a Graduate diploma in Higher education and is a confirmed PhD candidate. Before this current appointment worked commercially in several dental laboratory’s and dental clinics as a technician and clinical dental technician. He currently teaches in the undergraduate Bachelor of Dental technology and Dental Prosthetics and Post Graduate Doctorate of Clinical Dentistry in Periodontics, Prosthodontics and Maxillofacial surgery specialist programs. He is also clinically active seeing his own patients for removable prosthetics one day a week.
Andrew has a keen interest in maintaining and keeping up with the current trends in digital dentistry. He is published widely in peer reviewed dental journal. His areas of expertise are removable prosthodontics, 3D printing, subtractive manufacturing, advanced CBCT imaging analysis, intra oral scanning, assessing accuracy for dental applications and advanced surgical guide manufacturing and design. He utilises digital technology techniques both clinically and technically daily in both a teaching, research, and clinical context.
Presenters
Friday Advanced surgical guide design and applications.
Tooth born surgical guides are an effective approach to a reliable and predictable protocol to place dental implants. When no teeth are present in an arch this can be a more challenging clinical scenario. The dual scan protocol allows the manufacture of surgical guides for tissue born surgical guides in a number of clinical scenarios. The process with tips and tricks will be covered. Surgical guides can be utilised for so much more than implant placement. Novel and unconventional clinical applications will be shown as we as the integration of internal irrigation to effectively cool osteotomy sites will be discussed and techniques to incorporate this will be shown
Saturday Integrating intra oral scanning and subtractive manufacturing – who needs a stone model anyway?!
Intra oral scanning for removable prosthodontics has now moved from an emerging clinical technique to one that is becoming accepted and established as an effective treatment modality. How do I put this together with a workflow that allows me to provide high quality outcomes for my patients? Does this deliver good clinical outcomes? How to scan accurately and consistently?
Bio
Andrew Cameron currently holds the position of Lecturer in Dental Technology at Griffith Universities School of Dentistry and Oral Health, Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Dental Technology, a Master in Dental Technology in Prosthetics a Graduate diploma in Higher education and is a confirmed PhD candidate. Before this current appointment worked commercially in several dental laboratory’s and dental clinics as a technician and clinical dental technician. He currently teaches in the undergraduate Bachelor of Dental technology and Dental Prosthetics and Post Graduate Doctorate of Clinical Dentistry in Periodontics, Prosthodontics and Maxillofacial surgery specialist programs. He is also clinically active seeing his own patients for removable prosthetics one day a week.
Andrew has a keen interest in maintaining and keeping up with the current trends in digital dentistry. He is published widely in peer reviewed dental journal. His areas of expertise are removable prosthodontics, 3D printing, subtractive manufacturing, advanced CBCT imaging analysis, intra oral scanning, assessing accuracy for dental applications and advanced surgical guide manufacturing and design. He utilises digital technology techniques both clinically and technically daily in both a teaching, research, and clinical context.
Marie MacKay – Dental Council Chief Executive
Therapeutic Products Bill
Marie will give an update on key projects, including an overview of the Therapeutic Products Bill and impact on oral health practitioners.
The influence of medication on oral health
- Overview of common medications used by the elderly
- Direct and indirect effects of medication on the oral mucosa
- Specific drug classes and their potential oral side effects
Medication effects on the oral mucosa of edentulous patients
- Case studies
- The role of medication in exacerbating or causing oral health issues
- The interaction between medications and denture materials
Strategies for managing and mitigating medication effects
- The role of regular oral examinations
- Oral hygiene practices for the edentulous patient
- Medication management strategies to minimize negative oral health effects
- The importance of interdisciplinary care in managing these patients
Bio
Dr Nataly Martini is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland School Of Pharmacy. She teaches clinical pharmacy to undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students, placing an emphasis on pharmacology and evidence-based clinical research. Her research covers a broad range of areas including medication adherence, patient and healthcare professional perspectives in disease and medication management. She has a special interest in exploring the use of technology in healthcare and in teaching and learning.
Simon Ashworth
Lecture One
Discussion of what I expected from digital dentures and what I got in the early years.
Sharing the highs and lows and sharing the amount of time taken to develop a working solution.
Highlighting the direction, I was guided in and how that proved to be the wrong track in the early stages.
Interactive asking the questions
What’s your perception
Do you really need to go digital
What could be the benefits
The difference between the idea’s we are sold and my interpretation
Where is the education
Lecture Two
Explanation of verified workflows and the regulatory direction we are heading
Step by Step look at the workflows that I have verified and where they fit into today’s practices
Including Full dentures 100% printed and Hybrid digital to analogue
Real customer Success of the verified workflows
Two patient case studies (Point of Care)
My visit to IDS cologne and what to expect in the next few years
Bio
Simon Ashworth is an accomplished clinical dental technician with nearly 40 years’ experience. He has studied extensively in the fields of both fixed and removable prosthetics and is a passionate educator and KOL of emerging technologies. As a clinical and technical instructor for more than 15 years he has presented over 100 workshops and has lectured in 15 countries around the world.
Simon is based in northern NSW and is currently using his experience to develop application based solutions for the integration of digital dentistry into main stream protocols. With a touch of humour he shares his insights into the learning curve of digital transformation – the highs and the lows.
Simon’s ability and thirst for excellence has kept him at the forefront of his field and he continues to be a highly sought after and respected lecturing clinician. `
“The Art and Science of Oral Cancer Treatment” and it will look at oral cancer and it’s impact on prosthetic provision for patients. We will review the presentation and diagnosis of common oral cancers and contemporary management of this disease and then focus on the challenges of rehabilitating these patients dentally due to the surgical and adjuvant treatment consequences.
Bio
Simon Lou
MBChB, MDS OMS, FRACDS OMS
Simon completed his dental degree at Otago University in 1992 and his medical degree in 2003. He was awarded his fellowship of the RACDS in OMS in 2006 and then moved to the United Kingdom with his wife and daughter to complete post-fellowship training in head and neck oncology surgery in 2009. He took up a Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon position at the Royal Derby Hospital until 2011 when he returned home to Hamilton with his wife and now 2 children with a third on the way.
He became a Director at Anglesea OMS Ltd and was appointed as a Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon at Waikato Hospital in the same year and was the first OMS surgeon to commence both ablative and microvascular free flap reconstructive surgery in New Zealand. He provided OMS trainees with exposure and experience in all aspects of oncology surgery during their training and is proud of the fact that several past trainees are now actively involved in oncology surgery in NZ, Australia and other parts of the world.
He now works only in private practice having left the DHB at the end of 2020 but remains a core member of the Head and Neck MDM at Waikato Hospital and although no longer actively training OMS trainees, he is still involved mentoring junior staff and remains on the Executive committee of the NZDA branch.
Paraihe oū Niho (title)
I will be discussing How tikanga may impact oral health concerns for Māori.
Taiporoutu Tamehana Huata
E rere e te mānuka tomokia
E rere e te huata hopukia
Tēnā koutou e ngā rau rangatira mā
I am a son, a brother, a father, an uncle, a mentor, a rangatira of my Iwi, and a speaker for my people.
I have been in education, teaching for most of my teenage and adult life. I teach most subjects with a māori world-view, and through Te Reo Māori. I have taught at all levels of education, Primary, Secondary and tertiary, and I am very active in my communities of marae, school, and sports.
I have a strong commitment to Mātauranga Māori and its teachings, and hope that in the future all New Zealanders have access to this knowledge and its benefits. I am a strong advocate of the Whare tapawhā model and firmly believe that all health practitioners should use this as a basis for their practice.
I have a Masters in Applied Indigenous Knowledge, and my field of expertise is Te Reo Māori me ngā Tikanga and Performing Arts.
I will be discussing How tikanga may impact oral health concerns for Māori.
Zei Kagaoan on the dental technology research project “Bond strength of 3D printed crown materials”
Bio:
Zei Kagaoan is a final year Bachelor of Dental Technology with Honours student at the University of Otago and is currently working on her dissertation regarding the bond strength of 3D printed crowns. Zei particularly enjoys the creative and artistic aspects of technical lab work, but more recently has discovered a newfound passion for dental research. After she finishes her course at the end of the year, Zei looks forward to undergoing a postgraduate diploma in Clinical Dental Technology in 2024.
Samantha Khaw on dental technology project “Influence of temperature on dimensional accuracy of 3D printed models”
Bio:
Samantha Khaw is studying Dental Technology with Honours at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago. She enjoys the combination of the technicalities and creativity of Dental Technology, however has been captivated by the research aspect this year. After completing B.DentTech, Samantha will experience a new side of Dental Technology, outside of the lab, through patient interactions in Clinical Dental Technology 2024.
A clinical case study that addresses a patient’s concerns
Bio
Julia Zhu is a clinical dental technology student studying at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago. She graduated with Bachelor of Dental Technology in 2022 before admission into clinical dental technology the following year. Not only does she enjoy the technical aspect of denture fabrication but also the patient interactions involved in practicing as a clinical dental technician. Julia is based in Auckland and have utilised her breaks to work at dental laboratories back at home throughout her undergraduate years.
Dr Joanne Choi
Updates on the revised Bachelor of Dental Technology program at Otago
bio:
Dr. Joanne Choi is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Otago and the Deputy Convenor of the Bachelor of Dental Technology program. As an active academic doing research and teaching into both undergraduate and postgraduate programs and being an Otago graduate herself, Joanne is very excited to see the Bachelor of Dental Technology program changing from 2024. Joanne is looking forward to sharing what’s new in our Dental Technology undergraduate program with NZIDT members at the conference and continue working with NZIDT.
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