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Dr Linda Greenwall – Dentist, Lecturer, Philanthropist & Charity founder

BDS (Rand) MGDS, RCS (Eng), MSc (LONDON), MRD RCS (UK) FGDP (UK) FCDIP, BEM

Dr Linda Greenwall is a third-generation dentist who graduated in 1984 from Wits Dental School in South Africa.

After completing her master's research into tooth whitening and discovering a passion for minimally invasive dentistry she published 4 textbooks on the subject.

In 2011 she established the Dental Wellness Trust, a non-profit Charity, focused on improving oral health in less fortunate children. This is helping over 20,000 children in the townships of South Africa and over 12,000 nursery and school children in UK.

In 2017 Linda was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to Dentistry and the John Tomes award by the BDA in 2023.

In 2020 Linda help set up an organisation called Women Dentists Network, to support female dentists improve their work/life  balance and to promote and advance the careers of women dentists across the UK.

Linda continues to run a multi-disciplinary Specialist Dental Practice in London. She has four adult sons and 2 grandchildren.

Course Date

Thursday September 19th 2024

Venue: BDA London 64 Wimpole Street London W1G 8YS

Refreshments from 6.30pm, Lecture from 7.15pm

Course Overview

We are seeing an increasing amount of patients seeking treatment for tooth surface loss. This lecture will feature new contemporary strategies to help these patients from minimal invasive to more comprehensive treatments. We will highlight the use of the digital workflow from scanning, to wax-ups, to mock-ups for patients and how to plan the increase in the vertical dimension. Bonding techniques using onlays, inlays and ZIrconia will be discussed.

Educational Aims and Objectives

1. To consider the natural dentition in treating patients with tooth wear, evaluation, assessment and monitoring with diet modification

2. Treating erosive class 5 lesions, NCCLs in a simple way with Resin modified Glass Ionomers- Step by Step technique

3. Treatment planning, digital scanning,and digital wax-ups with stents and shade selection

5. Inlay onlay design and digital manufacture using Emax vs LiSi vs Zirconia and bonding and cementation techniques

6. The mockup stages in digital planning and try in with photography and stents

7. Staging of Whitening treatment for patients with tooth wear with sensitivity management

Learning Outcomes

1. Treatment planning strategies and the digital workflow

2. Zirconia as a restorative dental material and Bonding techniques for Zirconia and lithium disilcate

3. To learn the skills for selecting the different options for inlays, onlays, crowns, porcelain and cement selection.

4. How to select the perfect shade and communicate to the laboratory.

GDC development outcomes

A,B,D