Health Integration in Dentistry

I’m currently in Vancouver where there is a dental meeting , the details can be found here https://reg.pdconf.com/website/79077/home/

Unfortunately, I can’t attend as I no longer have a UK registration, never mind a Canadian registration. Also, due to the time difference Liverpool are playing in the Champions League lunchtime, so I’ll be in a bar. Last week there was a dental meeting in Portland, that I attended, and gave a short talk on Promoting Public Prevention in the UK.

The difference is that according to an organiser I met yesterday, they are anticipating 10,000 dentists over the next few days in Vancouver, as opposed to about 300 in Portland. It represents the difference in attitude of the profession as well as our governments. While we know Prevention has huge savings for the public, the vast majority of our income is based on surgery, generally removing dental disease and restoring the dentition with what remains.

We need to share our experiences in how to have a business model based around delivering preventive care and using the whole team to treat dental disease as outlined in Portland. Any ideas? Mine are on this website.

I called in the Apple shop yesterday, and was given a demo on using their AI to make a talking emoji. This is the better one to promote Teledentistry.

I’ll make a video on how we can help one deliver some of the positive dental outcomes from our experience during Covid.
If we want a healthier country the dental team can be the trusted health advocates our countries need. We can’t leave the decision to “here today, gone tomorrow” politicians.

We need to deliver the long term health our society needs, and in the UK help reduce the burden on our NHS, one tooth at a time.

I think the video will play, like the emoji, it was made on my old iPhone 11.