The Role of a Sports Dentist & an Update on Dental Trauma

WEBINAR DATE CHANGE: Wednesday 28th January 8pm SYD time / 9am UK time - thank you for your understanding and we will see you there!

Uncover what a sports dentist really does, how you can explore this impactful field further within your career and have a greater understanding of real-world dental trauma management.

Get a firsthand look at the unique responsibilities of sports dentists in protecting and enhancing athletic performance and learn how you can dive deeper into this specialty with Dr Umair Mohammed.

In this webinar attendees will learn:

• To understand what a Sports Dentist is and their Role within the Sports and Exercise Medicine Team
• To identify what the most common types of dental trauma there are
• To understand the immediate management and treatment of dental trauma
• To understand the role of the Sports Dentist on an international sporting event on match day

Your learning objectives:

• Have a greater understanding of a Sports Dentist role in the Sports and Excercise Medicine team
• Have a greater understanding of what types of dental trauma may present to you in practice
• How to deal with the 3 most common types of dental trauma
• Appreciating the field of play/pitch side role of a sports dentist on match day

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:

Umair graduated from the University of Dundee in 2010 and worked for 2 years in Edinburgh and Fife, in practice, hospital and community settings. He then travelled to Australia where he worked in Sydney and Perth.

On returning home, he spent 5 years in NHS practice before moving in to private practice in 2018 at Cherrybank Dental Spa and SmilePlus Dental Care.

In 2014, he passed the MFDS RCS (Edi) examinations.In 2022, he became one of only five dentists in the world to be awarded an MSc in Sports Dentistry (with distinction) from the prestigious UCL Eastman Dental Institute.

Umair is one of the co founders of the UK Sports Dentistry Association and South Africa Sports Dentistry Association, a member of the European Association for Sports Dentistry and one of the lecturers on the online Sports Dentistry programme Tackling Teeth, an introductory course to Sports Dentistry and one of the co hosts for the popular podcast, the Sports Dentistry Podcast.

Umair is officially affiliated with Edinburgh and Scotland Rugby, Cricket Scotland and provide ad hoc services to elite athletes in Scotland through Scottish Institute of Sport. He is present on match days, pitch side, as part of the field of play medical staff providing immediate assistance for any oro-facial related injuries. Umair was also part of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022, where he was the sports dentist covering the basketball 3×3 and beach volleyball events.

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