Mobile Dental Providers Australia: MDPA2024

Join us for our third Mobile Dental Providers Australia conference that is set to redefine the way you practice dentistry! MDPA24 is a fantastic opportunity for all dental practitioners to explore or dig deep in the world of mobile dentistry as our comprehensive program has it all.

But that's not all - we are also proud to host a massive trade expo featuring the latest dental technologies, equipment, and services. This expo is your opportunity to connect with industry leaders, discover new products, and expand your network.

Event Details:

CPD: Up to 12 hours CPD

Location: Rydges World Square, 389 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000

3 interactive workshops (Friday 26th July)

Full day presentations (Saturday 27th July)

A huge trade exhibition with over 12 exhibitors!!

Friday 26th July: Workshops

9.00am-11.30 Workshop: Providing education in Childcare Centres

2hours CPD. Registration 15mins prior to workshop start time

Join Colgate Professional Educator Jasmine Bell for a hands on workshop to explore the newly re-launched Bright Smiles Bright Futures (BSBF) program and learn ways you can implement the program in your community work or in your practice.

Learning Objective:

Gain first-hand knowledge of the BSBF materials and their use to deliver effective oral health promotionin different settings.

Topics covered include:

-Introduction to Oral Health Promotion

-Introduction to the BSBF Program

-Explore the materials available for teachers and dental

professionals as part of this program

-Hands-on activities using the BSBF resources

-Group discussion on community education initiatives

- Achieving healthier outcomes for your patients and the community

12.30pm-2.30pm Workshop: Project Gordon: Providing oral health and training in aged care facilities

2hours CPD. Registration 15mins prior to workshop start time

Learning objectives:

-Learn the importance of radically upskilling the oral health knowledge of existing aged care workers and those currently undergoing aged care training.

-Review Project Gordon, a world first oral hygiene training program, designed with 5 work stations, to improve the oral health knowledge and develop practical oral hygiene skills for aged care staff.

-Observe a number of case studies where Project Gordon has been implemented in various workforce situations in both NSW and Victoria.

-Gain the confidence, knowledge and skills to run a successful aged care workforce training program.

Presenters: Dr Mark Wotherspoon, BDSc. and Cathryn Carboon, RDH, M.HealthProm, TAE

For full presenter biographies - scroll to "Presenter biographies"

3.00pm - 5.00pm Workshop: A dynamic approach to caries control with SDF and the latest restorative materials Proudly sponsored by SDI

2hours CPD. Registration 15mins prior to workshop start time

Learning objectives:

-Identify indications and contraindications of using SDF

-Analyse the latest restorative materials and select the correct material for the restoration

-Hands on using SDF Riva Star, Stella

Presenter: Dr Vaibhav Garg

For full presenter biographies - scroll to "Presenter biographies"

Saturday 27th July: Full Day Lectures

"Treatment planning and treatment provision to maximise oral health outcomes"

Professor Ian Meyers

"Taking it on the road: Tackling practical infection control issues for mobile dental services"

Emeritus Professor Laurence Walsh

"Claiming confidence: How to comply with Medicare and health funds"

Dr Martin Webb

"Clinical governance considerations for mobile dental providers: a risk focused approach"

Professor Alexander Holden

"Preserving Smiles, Protecting Rights: A Legal Insight into Patient Data Control"

Marianne Nicolle

Program in more depth:

"Treatment planning and treatment provision to maximise oral health outcomes"

Presenter: Professor Ian Meyers

Learning objectives:

-Reviewing the fundamentals of treatment planning in oral health care

-Understanding the opportunities and limitations of providing comprehensive oral health care in a restricted environment

-Appreciating the aspects of accessibility, affordability and achievability

-Applying the 5M's or oral health care - Mind, Mobility, Medications, Multicomplexity, and Mostters Most

-Embracing minimally invasive strategies for management of compromised dentitions

-Considering 'herodontics', is it an option and the decisions around the tooth retential or extraction

For full presenter biographies - scroll to "Presenter biographies"

"Taking it on the road: Tackling practical infection control issues for mobile dental services"

Presenter: Emeritus Professor Laurence Walsh

Learning objectives:

1. Understand the unique challenges and risks associated with infection prevention and control in a mobile dental setting.

2. Appreciate the impact of AS 5369 for reprocessing aspects of mobile dental services, and the importance of facility-level risk assessments to inform local protocols.

3. Learn key aspects of assessing air and water quality issues for a mobile dental service, and how to apply concepts of segregation to enhance safe care and effective reprocessing.

For full presenter biographies - scroll to "Presenter biographies"

“Claiming confidence: How to comply with Medicare and health funds”

Learning objectives

Presenter: Dr Martin Webb

-Understand appropriate billing and claiming strategies

-Identify our obligations with billing and claiming for both Medicare and health funds

-Understand the consequences of billing inappropriately

-Identify the documentation that needs to be available if you were audited by Medicare and or health funds.

For full presenter biographies - scroll to "Presenter biographies"

"Clinical Governance Considerations for Mobile Dental Providers: A Risk Focused Approach"

Presenter: Professor Alexander Holden

Learning Objectives:

- To introduce clinical providers to a risk-based approach for clinical governance;

- Identify and explore some common sources of risk and how these might be addressed;

- Assist attendees to begin to implement a risk-based approach to clinical governance in their workplace environments

For full presenter biographies - scroll to "Presenter biographies"

"Preserving Smiles, Protecting Rights: A Legal Insight into Patient Data Control"

Presenter: Marianne Nicolle (Principal Lawyer)

Learning outcomes:

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify who owns a patient’s dental records.

• Discuss dental practitioners’ obligations concerning the collection, storage, use, disclosure, and correction of dental records.

• Discuss a patient’s right to access dental records and when access can be refused.

For full presenter biographies - scroll to "Presenter biographies"

Presenter Biographies

Dr Mark Wotherspoon, BDSc.

Successful General Dental Practitioner who wears a number of hats. Mark has had many years in private practice as a Principal and practice owner as well as experience in the Public Service, Military Service and even Corrective services. He firmly believes in establishing best practice oral hygiene routines for his patients and educating other health professionals and the public as to the close link between oral health and general health.

Mark is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer and Clinical Team Leader [Portable Dentistry] CSU, as well as a Clinical Senior Lecturer, in the School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, the University of Sydney. He also has extensive clinicalexperience, treating patients in over 15 different ACFs as well as housebound residents in their private homes. In 2016 he developed his own part-time portable dentistry business, Dentist To Your Door and clearly understands the costs, logistics, challenges and opportunities for all dental professionals to play the lead role in meeting the growing oral health needs of the aging population. Mark is an active member of the Australian Dental Association and in 2019 was made an honorary member of the Dental Hygienist’s Association of Australia.

Cathryn Carboon, RDH, M.HealthProm, TAE

Cathryn Carboon has 38 years’ experience in dental hygiene practice in Australia, Germany and New Zealand. She has worked in special needs dentistry at the Julia Farr Centre in Adelaide, providing preventive oral health promotion programs and dental hygiene treatment to residents and dental health education and training sessions for staff.

Cathryn has provided oral health promotion sessions in residential aged care facilities in South Australia and more recently in regional Victoria, as program manager for SmileCARE. A multi-disciplinary education and training program aimed at changing the culture of mouth care in Australian aged care for the better!SmileCARE has been delivered to students studying the Diploma of Nursing and Certificate III in Individual Support at GOTAFE campuses across regional Victoria. Cathryn holds a Master's of Health Promotion and is an active oral health promoter. Cathryn has been a member of the Dental Hygienist Association of Australia (DHAA) since 1988, she is a member of the DHAA Aged Care Chapter and holds a DHAA Aged Care Education Program Certificate. Cathryn is also a member of the Australian Health Promotion Association and the International Health Literacy Association. Cathryn has a Certificate IV Training & Assessment (TAE40116) and has been a Colgate professional educator for over 18 years, teaching across University and TAFE sectors.

Cathryn has been widely recognised for her oral health promotion work within the community, being awarded the International Federation of Dental Hygienists &; Global Child Dental Fund - International Social Responsibility Award and the DHAA National Oral Health Award for Community Service.

Dr Vaibhav Garg

Dr. Garg has worked in Oral Health and Public Health since 2012. His career working in low resource, rural and remote settings in Australia and overseas has provided insight into the value of innovations for communities most in need of dental care. Most recently he has brought his clinical and public health expertise to the role of Senior Dentist and Manager Oral Health Program with the Royal Flying Doctor Service Central Operations. This Health Management role aims to provide a culturally appropriate and NSQHS Accredited Dental Service within an Integrated Primary Health approach to Chronic Disease management in remote Australia. This service is delivered to a range of stakeholders including Aboriginal communities in remote Central Australia, as well as remote communities in far-north South Australia.

Professor Ian Meyers

Professor Meyers is currently in general dental practice and is an honorary professor of the University of Queensland School of Dentistry. Professor Ian Meyers brings over thirty five years of combined experience in dental research, clinical dentistry, private practice, university clinics and hospital based dental clinics. He is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons, International College of Dentists, Academy of Dentistry International, and the Pierre Fauchard Academy.

Amongst his previous positions are the inaugural Colgate Chair of Dental General Practice Dentistry, Chief Dental Officer for Queensland Health, and President of the Queensland Branch of the Australian Dental Association.

As a general dental practitioner, Ian Meyers has extensive experience in comprehensive patient care, and has a special interest in diagnosis and management of worn and broken down dentition, geriatric and aged care dentistry, adhesive restorative dental materials, fibre-reinforced composites, and the management of patients through minimum intervention dentistry.

Emeritus Professor Laurence Walsh

Laurie is a well known senior dental academic and specialist in special needs dentistry. He has served on the academic staff of the University of Queensland School of Dentistry for 40 years, including for 21 years as the research group leader in oral microbiology. Since retiring from UQ in 2020 and then being appointed as an emeritus professor, Laurie has continued his applied research in clinical microbiology. Laurie has been the editor of the ADA Guidelines on Infection Prevention and Control since 2012, and he currently represents ADA on 4 committees of Standards Australia (including medical instrument reprocessing, and personal protective equipment). He has been involved in the review and redesign of mobile and fixed dental facilities for many years.

Dr Martin Webb

Dr Martin Webb is a dentist in private practice on the Sunshine Coast. He was appointed recently as an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney School of Dentistry, and as an ATH Lecturer at the University of Queensland School of Dentistry. Dr Webb works at the Australian Dental Council as an examiner, and conducts final year dental student viva examinations at UQ.

He has served in the past as the ADA Federal Vice President, the ADAQ State President, is currently the Vice Chair of the ADA Schedule and Third Party Committee. He has conducted CPD lectures and webinars for over 10 years for ADAQ and ADA Federal, and recently for ADA Victoria, University of Western Australia, University of Sydney, University of Newcastle, Curtin University, University of Adelaide, University of Queensland, CQU, Charles Sturt University, DHAA and ADOHTA.

Dr Webb acts as an AHPRA auditor, mentor and educator to assist dentists with conditions on their registration. As a member of the ADAQ Peer review panel, he provides advice to ADAQ staff working to assist dentists with health fund audits, AHPRA complaints and Professional Indemnity insurance legal claims. Dr Webb serves on the Australian Government Professional Services Review Panel, to review inappropriate Medicare billing under the CDBS. Dr Webb works as an assessor for QCAT, to assist the Judge with Professional misconduct court trials where dentists are charged by the OHO or DBA. He provides expert opinion reports for professional indemnity insurance lawyers, and has worked in the past as a clinical expert for OHO, the co- regulators in Qld. Dr Webb is a Fellow of the International College of Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry International and the Pierre Fauchard Academy.

Professor Alexander Holden (BDS LLM MDPH MComDent PhD MRACDS(DPH) FACLM FCGDent)

Alexander completed his undergraduate dental degree in Sheffield (UK) and then completed further four degrees in law, dental public health, community dentistry and research from the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Before moving to Sydney in 2015, Alexander worked clinically in private and public practice in the North of England, holding a special interest in conscious sedation and the use of hypnosis in dentistry.

Alexander holds specialist registration with the Dental Board of Australia in Public Health (Community) Dentistry and is internationally recognised for his work on oral health systems, dental ethics and healthcare professionalism. In Australia, he has worked within the private, public and academic sectors and currently holds senior academic and public health positions. Alexander is also a Partner and Principal Dentist at a private dental practice on the Lower North Shore of Sydney – Honest Tooth Dental Care.

Alexander is currently the Head of Specialist Services at Sydney Dental Hospital and Oral Health Services where he manages a diverse and integrated portfolio of specialised departments offering cutting-edge care. The departments within the portfolio contain conventional specialist services such as prosthodontics and oral medicine, alongside more holistic care such as social work.

Alexander holds an appointment as a Clinical Professor with the University of Sydney School of Dentistry where he is also the Head of Subject Area for Professional Practice along with other governance roles. Alongside his clinical and academic expertise, Alexander also has extensive experience in corporate governance.

Alexander is a Fellow by examination of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine and the College of General Dentistry, as well as a member in specialist practice (Dental Public Health) with the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons.

Marianne Nicolle

Marianne Nicolle is a Principal of Meridian Lawyers and has practiced as a solicitor in the area of health law for 28 years. Marianne primarily acts for MDOs, professional indemnity insurers, health organisations and individual health practitioners (including dental practitioners) in a broad range of matters including: policy drafting, risk management, patient complaint handling, civil claims, processes under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (registration and all complaint processes), coronial investigations and inquests, disciplinary processes with employers, private health fund audits, Medicare audits, Practitioner Review Program processes, Professional Services Review processes and PSR Committee hearings, discrimination complaints before regulators, privacy complaints before the OAIC and general compliance advice.

She has been recognised in the peer-review guide, Best Lawyers in Australia, for her expertise in Health & Aged Care Law and in Medical Negligence since 2016.

Specific to the profession of dentistry, Marianne has provided advice to dental practitioners on all aspects of their professional practice. She has been a presenter for the RACDS CPD Masterclass on Practice Management, Law, Ethics and Risk Management since 2013 and has also provided numerous presentations for the dental profession through publications, webinars and presentations. She has led a team of lawyers who have worked closely with the profession through milestone events such as the introduction of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme in 2010, Medicare compliance activity under the old CDDS and the current CDBS, the spike in infection control audits in 2015 and 2016 and the increasing number of civil claims and regulatory processes generally.

Cancellation Policy

Registration confirmation – Registrations will not be confirmed until full payment is received.

Cancellations (Outside 45 days) – Should you wish to cancel your training commitment more than 45 days prior to the event date, you will be permitted to choose one of the following options:

- Transfer your registration to a colleague to attend in your absence; OR

- Request a full refund (minus Eventbrite fees).

Cancellations (Inside 45 days) – Should you wish to cancel your training commitment within 45 days prior to the training date, no refund is permitted. MDPA will not be held liable for an attendees’ failure to cancel a booking within the specified timeframes.

Cancellations by Mobile Dental Providers Australia (event organisers) - While every effort is made to ensure this event is ran as advertised, there may be instances where the event needs to be rescheduled. Mobile Dental Providers Australia reserves the right to cancel or reschedule a workshop at its discretion. Where Mobile Dental Providers Australia must cancel the event, participants will be offered a full refund minus Eventbrite fees.

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