Monitoring wear – current tools and what comes next
This webinar will inform attendees on the different clinical wear indices and explain how to use the Basic Erosive Wear Examination (BEWE) to look for signs of early wear.
Attendees will learn how to use intraoral scans to look for signs of early wear and understand how intraoral scans will be used in the future to monitor wear.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this presentation, attendees will:
- Know how to use the BEWE to assess and document tooth wear in clinical notes
- Understand what to look for when assessing for signs of early acid damage or faceting
- Understand how intraoral scans can be used now and will be used in the future to assess and monitor wear.
Speaker: Saoirse O’Toole
Dr Saoirse O’Toole is a clinical lecturer at King’s College London Centre for clinical, oral and translational research. Her clinical area of interest is in erosive tooth wear and dental sleep medicine. Her research focuses on identifying groups at high risk of disease progression and developing diagnostic tools for use in primary care.
She has lectured nationally and internationally on erosive tooth wear with over 40 peer reviewed papers and four book chapters on tooth wear. She has developed a freeware to detect change in sequential 3D intraoral scans and is currently working on her patented device for the intraoral detection of extra-oesophageal reflux.
This Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activity fully complies with the CPD requirements of the General Dental Council. FMC certifies this activity for one hour of enhanced CPD in the subject of Monitoring wear – current tools and what comes next.
This CPD meets the criteria for the GDC’s development outcome C.
