Attend this webinar hosted by ADOHTA NSW/ACT Branch featuring our guest speaker Oral Health Therapist Cathy Boyce.

What happens when two enquiring minds (and one with unquestioning brilliance) ask ‘why’. The question provides an opportunity for a discovery that may change the understanding of how two metal fluorides (in this case, AgF and SnF2) interact to offer the perfect setting for nature to ‘take care of business’.

This presentation will explain the path to Dr Graham Craig's discovery of the presence of nanosilver particles contained within the ‘in vivo’ samples of black callus collected from clients (of differing ages) several weeks/ months following the initial application of AgF/ SnF2. The prolific presence in the more robust callus appeared to offer an ongoing and prolonged antimicrobial barrier, enhancing the remineralisation process in a single application.

• 1hr scientific CPD.
• Members and non-members welcome. 
• Webinar link will be emailed on 3 June 2025.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the role of the black callus in the arrest and remineralisation of the caries lesion.

Important Note

Please note the use of AI recordings, notetaking or screenshots is prohibited unless permission has been sought from ADOHTA prior to this live webinar. Further participation requirements are outlined in the ADOHTA Events Policy below.

About Oral Health Therapist Cathy Boyce

Cathy is an oral health therapist who graduated from Sydney’s Sylvania School of Dental Therapy in 1980 and completed her Hygienist studies at Queensland’s UQ/QUT in 2006. She has enjoyed a long and rewarding career in the dental profession, working in many aspects of dentistry in public and private clinics.

She has a fortunate history of using silver fluoride, beginning in the 1980s. Since 2017, she has had significant clinical experience combining silver fluoride use with modern-day dental materials. Cathy established the first dedicated 'silver fluoride clinic' in Indonesia while volunteering in Borneo in 2024. She educated the local nurses and the doctor in case selection and application techniques as an 'intervention approach' to caries management between annual dental team visits.

Cathy wrote the ARM-ER approach for caries and sensitivity management using silver fluorides in 2017, and has lectured on the subject across the country and internationally since then. Her paper ‘The use of silver fluoride and stannous fluoride in the treatment of hypomineralised molar teeth’ was published in September 2021, and she continues to educate and mentor clinicians worldwide.

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This program will prepare dental and oral health therapists for new career pathways by providing additional skills and knowledge in adult dental therapy practice to meet the dental needs of the Australian population into the future.

This course will prepare you to translate your existing scope to provide dental therapy restorative care for patients of all ages. You will develop the knowledge and undertake introductory clinical practice for adult dental therapy practice including treatment planning for simple direct restorations for people aged over 25 years.

Course Details

This twelve-week course comprises:

• Ten weeks (approximately) of online learning and preparation.
• Ten days of onsite learning at Melbourne Dental School through pre-clinical activities, seminars and hands-on clinical experience undertaken at the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne.
• Additional (self-directed) supported clinical practice to consolidate these skills is expected following course completion.

Target Audience

This course is open to dental therapists and oral health therapists with one year of full-time experience in the provision of dental therapy services, where this experience has been undertaken within the last five years. This course is NOT a workforce re-entry program - it is assumed that applicants have current restorative knowledge and recency of practice in diagnosis and restorative care.

Applicants must be registered (or eligible for registration) as a dental therapist/oral health therapist with the Australian Health Professional Regulation Agency.

As course participants provide clinical services at the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, all applicants must hold a current Working with Children Check and undertake credentialing procedures - more information on these procedures will be provided to successful applicants.

There will be an online evening Zoom session (date TBC) for all those interested in the Adult Scope Graduate Certificate and the CPD component of this program. 

• 90hrs scientific CPD
• View the UOM Adult Dental Therapy brochure.

Pricing

• Total program investment $10,300.
• Initial deposit due to secure program place $5,150 with the balance due by 30 June 2025.

ADOHTA Sponsored Event Disclaimer

This is a paid advertisement and should not be interpreted as an endorsement by ADOHTA. It is the responsibility of every registered dental practitioner to evaluate the event's learning outcomes in accordance with your personal continuing professional development requirements and the Dental Board of Australia's registration standards, policies and guidelines. 

• This evidence-based course is built on the academic content delivered in the BOH curriculum and is designed to refine and develop your orthodontic skills to meet the needs of orthodontic practice and the standards required by the Dental Board of Australia. The course comprises a combination of online lectures and practical work incorporating supported clinical experience and small group work. The course is delivered by University of Melbourne Dental School academic staff, specialist orthodontists, and oral health orthodontic practitioners drawing on the latest evidence and experience to grow your understanding, knowledge and practice confidence. Learn in a world class academic environment with practitioners from a range of settings around Australia and develop your own community of practice.

  • 23.5hrs scientific CPD
  • View the UOM Orthodontics brochure.

  
  Practice Experience Required:

  For those who have not worked in orthodontic practice prior to undertaking this course, we recommend that you arrange to spend a day observing in a practice both before and after the course. This is to support your learning and to provide a basic understanding of a range of orthodontic procedures and how an Oral Health Therapist, Dental Hygienist or Dental Therapist fits into an orthodontic team.

  If you are currently employed in an orthodontic practice and have past and current experience with day-to-day orthodontic activities that are part of the scope of practice, this will provide the required background knowledge.

  Course Objectives:

  To provide a course of education and training that will enable dental therapists, hygienists and oral health therapists to support orthodontists and dentists in the provision of orthodontic treatment and preventive services.

  Program Delivery

• Pre-reading material will be supplied including refresher material on occlusion and malocclusion and their classifications

• Online web lectures via the Melbourne Dental School’s Learning Management System, Canvas.
• A short MCQ (multiple choice questions) to cement your knowledge on the lecture topics. An additional one hour of Scientific CPD is awarded.
• Seminar Session (webinar) for follow up questions and discussion with the presenters.
• Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 November 2025 - 8.30am - 5.00pm each day: Hands-on Clinical sessions to be held at the Melbourne Dental Clinic, 1st Floor, 723 Swanston Street, Carlton Vic 3053 – demonstrations and hands-on exercises on digital scanning, separator placement, photography, arch wire fixation and removal, bracket placement and re-bonding, placement and removal of bonded retainers, removal of separators, de-bonding brackets and cement removal, fitting of orthodontic bands, placement of orthodontic aligner attachments (clinical demonstration) and a panel discussion.

IMPORTANT - please note:

• The online content for this program must be completed in full before attending the face-to-face hands-on sessions at the Melbourne Dental School. 
• Participants enrolling in this program must hold a current licence to practice within Australia.

Pricing

• Total course investment $1,823.

ADOHTA Sponsored Event Disclaimer

This is a paid advertisement and should not be interpreted as an endorsement by ADOHTA. It is the responsibility of every registered dental practitioner to evaluate the event's learning outcomes in accordance with your personal continuing professional development requirements and the Dental Board of Australia's registration standards, policies and guidelines.