Name: Silver Diamine Fluoride Webinar Series [1] Silver Lining Smiles: SDF in Private Practice
Start: 2025-02-22T20:56:48+13:00
End: 2025-02-22T20:56:48+13:00
Location: Silver Diamine Fluoride Webinar Series [1] Silver Lining Smiles: SDF in Private Practice

Silver diamine fluoride is now available for use in New Zealand. This product is a welcome addition to the dental tool kit. This webinar series is designed to explore SDF, its applications and its potential to enhance patient outcomes. The series will explore the background and science behind SDF along with the clinical applications across different population groups, providing the knowledge and confidence to implement SDF into your clinical practice.

Learning outcomes

Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF) Topamine is now a registered medicine that can be used in Aotearoa, New Zealand by dental clinicians. SDF can be used to arrest or to slow the progression of cavitated and non-cavitated active caries lesions in primary and permanent teeth. It can be used to prevent root caries from progressing in older adults, to treat tooth hypersensitivity or also pain related to exposed dentine or hypomineralised enamel. There are multiple applications for the use of SDF in private practice. This presentation will discuss the history of silver in medicine, all about SDF, it uses and application. We will also discuss management of patient and parent perceptions around the aesthetics of SDF. We will provide resources for consent, tray setup as well as tips and tricks for placing SDF. We will also share some updates on research and some clinical cases.

Speakers

Dr Ellen Clark BDS, MComDent (Dist), FICD

Ellen Clark began her career following graduation with her BDS From Otago in 2008, as the first Dental House Surgeon at Whangarei Base Hospital (Northland, New Zealand). She has worked for the Northland District Health Board, for 15 years as a Community Dentist and was the Clinical Director from 2015-2021. She gained her public health specialist degree from Otago University in 2017 with distinction. She purchased a private practice in Mangawhai Heads (Northland, New Zealand) early in 2019, which she still owns and operates. Ellen was the president of the New Zealand School and Community Oral Health Service Society from 2020-2022, and is the current president of the New Zealand Society of Hospital Dentistry Ellen was elected to be a member of the New Zealand Dental Association Board 2020 until the present.

Dr Margaret-Rae Clark BDS

Margaret Clark (Ngāti Awa) is a practicing dentist in Wellington. She works both in the private sector, and as a community dentist with Ngāti Toa Rangatira - as part of a kaupapa Māori health provider. Her work includes leading initiatives to improve dental care for vulnerable groups and creating pathways to improve access to oral healthcare. Outside of her clinical work she serves as an executive member and treasurer for Te Ao Mārama (NZ Māori Dental Assoc), an executive for Te Roopū Niho Ora and a committee member for the NZDA Wellington Branch. Recently, Margaret has been working alongside public health researchers to address oral health outcomes in Aotearoa.