Hands-on postgraduate training: how Smile Dental Academy builds clinician confidence and links education to practice

The useful part

Solventum Dental Solutions are proud to support Smile Dental Academy with predictability, education and innovation. How can dental professionals build confidence, embrace innovation and deliver more predictable outcomes for their patients? What is Smile Academy, and what unique opportunities do its courses provide to dental professionals in terms of clinical and business development?

How it works

• The ultimate aim is to develop well-rounded clinicians who can deliver excellent dentistry confidently and predictably.
• We want to work with organisations that contribute to clinical education in a meaningful manner.
• It also gives our delegates the opportunity to train using materials and technologies that they can take back into their own surgeries and use the following day.
• How do you help your students become confident in the skills that you teach?
• Our aim is for delegates to feel that they have a network of experienced clinicians around them rather than having to make every clinical decision alone.

What to take from it

That creates a fantastic opportunity to develop our DCPs and dental nurses while moving dentistry towards a more preventive model. One of the biggest operational problems in dental practices is unnecessary complexity. The indications are incredibly broad because these products cross every aspect of modern dentistry.

Example or evidence

• Smile Academy is a postgraduate dental education provider focused on helping clinicians develop both clinically and professionally.
• We don't believe postgraduate education should simply be about attending lectures or collecting qualifications.
• It should result in clinicians becoming more confident, delivering better dentistry and progressing their careers.
• Over the past year, we've trained more than 3,000 dental professionals, supported by a faculty of over 130 clinicians and educators.

Details worth keeping

Empowering clinicians through hands-on learning and innovation. Our philosophy is Learn, Grow, Support, Excel. I think what makes Smile Academy particularly unique is that we've always believed a successful academy requires three different skill sets: great clinicians, great educators and great event organisers.

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