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Training at King’s

Professor 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

Periodontology

Professor 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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