The Society of British Dental Nurses Podcast

The Society of British Dental Nurses

Welcome to the Society of Britsh Dental Nurses podcasts. Sponsored by Horton Consulting. This podcast is designed to inspire Dental nurses throughout the UK. Each podcast will deliver an interview with a Dental Nurse, all of which are working in different environments and using different skill sets. Some are no longer active in their roles but they started their career as a dental nurse and they would not be in their current roles without dental nursing!

Episodes

  1. From Dental Nurse to Super ‘Teeth Saving’ Woman. Meet Gemma Akinade Senior Oral Health Practitioner for Henry.

    07/01/2019

    From Dental Nurse to Super ‘Teeth Saving’ Woman. Meet Gemma Akinade Senior Oral Health Practitioner for Henry.

    Gemma's role is to improve the oral health outcomes of children under 5 and reduce health and social inequalities by providing access to early intervention and prevention as part of the London borough of Waltham HENRY High Impact Team. HENRY is a charity that supports families to provide the best possible start in life for young children In 2016 HENRY was commissioned by the Waltham Forest Council’s Head of Public Health to work in partnership with public health and the NHS services to improve the health outcomes for children under five in four areas - infant feeding, healthy eating, oral health and speech and language development. ‘I’m an experienced dental health nurse and passionate about prevention, believing that parents overwhelmingly want the best for their children - and with the right kind of strengths-based, non-judgemental support, can develop and sustain healthy family oral health routines. I support families from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities and have developed oral health interventions to reach vulnerable families including Children’s Centre dentist and fluoride varnish programmes. I am also responsible for training health and early year’s practitioners (school nurses, reception teachers, foster carers, childminders, health visitors) to support families to develop oral health routines and prevent decay.’ Gemma Akinade

    30 min
  2. The Digital Treatment Coordinator

    01/29/2019

    The Digital Treatment Coordinator

    Meet Tracie Barnett a passionate individual with over 20 years experience in Dentistry.    Tracie likes to set herself goals to help her stay on track personally and professionally and with the help of my team achieve great things together. Tracie is often found attending training courses on her days off to help progress with her career, she says 'every day we are still learning, and I am still as interested in Dentistry today as I was all those years ago'.   Tracie is the main point of contact for all new and existing patients, her role as a TCO is to make patients feel welcome, comfortable and at ease. Tracie discusses treatment options and costs with patients and deals with financial arrangements to make treatment affordable for the patients. Tracie also supports the membership options with the patients.     A huge part of Tracie’s role is supporting the Invisalign journey for patients. Tracie scans new and existing patients using 3D ITero scanner and provides simulations for them to see the what the treatment end result may look like. It is a very exciting aspect of her role and Tracie would never go back to holding these appointments with a scanner.   Key points about Tracie: I made a transition in my career by accident, it must have been fate as this is the dream job for me. I sacrificed regular dental nursing to take on the TCO role, dental nursing was my passion. I really did wonder how i’d feel once I stopped nursing daily. I do step in very rarely if needed but only with the hygienists usually. I am so busy in my new role that I don’t have much time to think about missing dental nursing. The rewards I have now are amazing, patients are so thankful to me and seeing the many positive reviews we receive as a practice and for me personally really make it worth while. I would definitely make the same decision again.  I love to decorate. I often help my family and friends out with wall papering or painting in my free time. My other pastimes tend to be attending fitness classes and spending time with my family. Society of British Dental Nurses : http://sbdn.org.uk   This podcast is sponsored by Horton Consulting : https://www.horton-consulting.com

    29 min
  3. Meet a dental nurse who is starting out in practice management

    11/30/2018

    Meet a dental nurse who is starting out in practice management

    In this podcast, we have the pleasure of introducing you to a hardworking achiever, Donna Vayle. Donna began her career in Dentistry as a dental nurse in 1999, she has a wealth of experience as a dental nurse, gained herself a promotion to become a treatment coordinator in her practice and has now gained herself a further promotion to become a practice manager. This podcast is full of top tips to help all dental nurses to move forward in their career. Donna has an amazing attitude; she sets goals and achieves them. Donna has two young children and gets up very early, drives 15 miles to drop the children off before she finally gets to work at 7.30am. On top of this, she frequently exercises and enjoys up-cycling. She holds her hands up to always being busy and states that she can't sit still and will most likely be found with a paintbrush in her hands! Donna trains apprentice dental nurses as an ROE witness, has a radiography qualification and impression taking certificate. Donna has worked in private practice for 13 years and is now in a two site mixed practice with an additional MOS contract. The current mixed practice started a conversion for one dentist to private and Donna supported this as a Treatment Coordinator working alongside the dentist by helping to convert 208 patients to membership in one year. In addition to her dental skills and qualifications, Donna also has A-levels in Law and English, and a bookkeeping qualification. The best advice Donna has been given - Set yourself goals, stay quiet about them and smash them! Society of British Dental Nurses http://sbdn.org.uk

    29 min

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Welcome to the Society of Britsh Dental Nurses podcasts. Sponsored by Horton Consulting. This podcast is designed to inspire Dental nurses throughout the UK. Each podcast will deliver an interview with a Dental Nurse, all of which are working in different environments and using different skill sets. Some are no longer active in their roles but they started their career as a dental nurse and they would not be in their current roles without dental nursing!