Minimum intervention oral healthcare (MIOC) – is there consensus?
Minimum intervention oral healthcare is the holistic patient-focused, team-delivered approach to maintaining better oral health for our patients. As more clinical and scientific evidence-based guidelines are published, is there consensus regarding the content and message?
In his webinar, Professor Avijit Banerjee, Chair of Cariology & Operative Dentistry at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London, will outline the rationale and underlying principles of minimum intervention oral care (MIOC). This has never been so relevant as it is now, in the PPE – “post-pandemic era” of dentistry, where MIOC must underpin long term oral healthcare service provision. The barriers to its implementation must now be broken down. This process involves coherent strategies and deliverable action plans developed by all the stakeholders involved – the profession (clinical, academic and educators), the public / patients, oral healthcare industry, local / national / international service providers and service regulators. There is clinical and scientific evidence that the principles work, but with a burgeoning number of guidelines being generated by different expert panels, groups and societies, coherent, aligned, clear and pragmatic messages must be promoted and followed.
By the end of this webinar, the delegate should be able to:
- Define the four domains of minimum intervention oral healthcare delivery (identify / assess; prevention of lesions / control of disease; minimally invasive restorative procedures; recall / review).
- Define the underpinning tenets of MIOC – patient-focused and team-delivered oral healthcare, aligned to PPE – the “post-pandemic era” and needs and expectations of a population.
- List non-operative and operative interventions to deliver prevention / control and MI restorations, with respect to caries management
- Gain an overview of the consensus guidelines available to help implement MIOC regimes
- Be aware of the limitations of such guidelines and opportunities for further post-graduate online education in Advanced Minimum Intervention Dentistry (AMID distance-learning KCL MSc course for dentists and therapists).
Speakers
Prof. Avijit Banerjee B.D.S., MSc, Ph.D. (Lond), LDS, FDS (Rest Dent), FDSRCS (Eng), FHEA
More courses with Prof. Avijit BanerjeeProfessor Avijit Banerjee
BDS MSc PhD (Lond) LDS FDS (Rest Dent) FDSRCS (Eng) FHEA
Since qualifying with BDS from Guy’s Dental School, London, UK (UMDS) in 1993, Avijit currently holds a Chair in Cariology & Operative Dentistry / Hon. Consultant and Clinical Lead, Restorative Dentistry at King’s College London Dental Institute at Guy’s Hospital (and Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Hospitals’ Foundation Trust). He is Head of Conservative & MI Dentistry, Associate Director of Education (UG) and has pioneered and established as Programme Director, an innovative KCL Masters (distance-learning) in Advanced Minimum Intervention Dentistry (please google “KCL AMID” for more info on the programme open to practising dentists and dental therapists worldwide). He also leads the Cariology & MI Operative Dentistry research programme at the DI as a principal research investigator (with research income in excess of £1 million, and a significant clinical and scientific research output in terms of peer-reviewed publications (>100), masters / doctorate research in the disciplines of cariology, minimum intervention / minimally invasive operative dentistry and adhesive dental biomaterials).
Indeed, he acts as an R&D KOL for many international dental Industry partners in these areas. Avijit is an internationally renowned lecturer and primary author of Pickard’s Guide to Minimally Invasive Operative Dentistry (Oxford Univ Press, 10 ed, 2015), a definitive and globally respected text in its field. He has written chapters in several other highly regarded textbooks and is editor of the new Vol 3: Minimally Invasive Esthetics (Elsevier, 2015). He will be author/editor of a new BDA/BDJ “MI Dentistry Toolkit” manual for the oral healthcare team which will describe, with practical advice, how to implement MI Dentistry into an ethical, profitable day-to-day practice (due 2016). He is now editor-in-chief of Oral Health and Preventive Dentistry, and sits is an active editorial board member of Dental Update, British Dental Journal, Primary Dental Journal & International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, serves on the British Dental Association’s Health & Science Committee, helping to guide the Association’s stance on professional policy, all whilst maintaining wet-fingered UK specialist practice in Restorative Dentistry, Prosthodontics & Periodontics.
