Aims

• To present multiple clinical cases to showcase how to manage dental disease to get the best long-term outcome in complex cases.

Objectives:

• To show how to break down complex cases to more manageable steps.
• To show how a GDP can manage more complex cases in general practice.
• To show that implants can be used in combination with teeth rather than to replace teeth. 
• To use different treatment modalities to get a long-term stable condition.
• To demonstrate how a change in behaviour leads to a better long-term outcome.

Speaker Profile:

Dr Mike Lloyd Hughes

Dental Surgeon with special interest in Implantology, Periodontics, and Restorative Dentistry

Qualifications: BDS (Cardiff) 2004, MFDS RCS (Eng), PG Cert Endodontics (Ches), Dip Rest Dent RCS (Eng), MSc (Leeds), FFGDP (UK), ITI Fellow (UK).

Mike , a fluent Welsh speaker, originally from near Caernarfon,North Wales, graduated with merit from Cardiff Dental School in summer of 2004. He moved back up to North Wales, and in 2006, took up a Senior House Officer (SHO) post in the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery departments in all of the four local hospitals in Bangor, Glan Clwyd, Llandudno and Wrexham. During this time he passed his examination to gain membership of the prestigious Dental Faculty at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.  

In 2007 he returned to general practice and worked part time with Dr Graham Roy whom has now retired, devoting one day a week with Dr Roy as his implant assistant where he saw many intricate surgical procedures and has been mentored in house by Mr Roy in the field of Implantology. Mike took over the Directors role of the ITI (International Team for Implantology) Study Club for Anglesey and North Wales 7 years ago from Dr Roy

In 2013 he was rewarded with a Masters of Science Degree (MSc) in Clinical Restorative Dentistry from the University of Leeds. His thesis was based on periodontal disease (gum disease) and the evidence for the use of “full mouth disinfection” in treating gum disease in primary dental care. In 2014 Mike was awarded a fellowship of the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners (FFGDP) from the Royal College of Surgeon of England. In 2019 Mike became an ITI Fellow, and is the first and only Welsh speaking ITI Fellow in the world. 

He was an invited speaker at the Caribbean Dental Program in Barbados in 2013 and 2020, and in June 2016 was invited to lecture in Porto Alegre, Brazil on the topic of Advanced Treatment Planning. 

His main lecture interests are advanced restorative dentistry with splitting treatment into more manageable phases, treatment planning sequencing, and using multidisciplinary approach. 

In reflecting on your CPD activity, you might like to think about the following:    

1.     What did you learn (or confirm) from the activity that was helpful or relevant to your daily work and patients?

2.     Did you identify any changes/updates needed in your daily work, and if so, what?

3.     If you didn’t identify changes needed, what did the activity confirm for you, that you may already know or be doing?

4.     What was the benefit to your work and/or your patients in carrying out this activity?