Sports Dentistry: The Evolving Role of the Sports Dentist

Course content and structure

The day runs from approximately 9:30am to 5pm. There'll be a combination of lecture/seminar teaching and hands-on practical sessions.

You'll learn:

• whether to consider athletes differently to any other patient
• about the role that the dentist can play in elite sport
• about emergency trauma
• about the role of nutrition in the care of athletes
• how to deal with commonly occuring orofacial sporting injuries

You'll earn 13 hours verifiable CPD and a certificate of attendance.

£840.00

UCL Eastman Dental Institute, Rockefeller Building, 21 University Street, London, WC1E 6DE

Who this course is for

You'll need to hold an approved dental qualification.

Quality controls

All Eastman teachers are experienced professionals. You'll be asked to submit written feedback via a questionnaire at the end of the course, which is used to monitor the course's quality of teaching and value for money.

Dr John Haughey

Practising in Ireland, John provides sports dentistry support to multiple athletes, including Olympians, professional team sport athletes and professional individual sport athletes. He's provided sports dentistry support for major competitions including internationally.

John researched the effect of the lower jaw position on athletic performance, while completing his MSc in neuromuscular therapy, and contributed a chapter to the sports dentistry book Sports Dentistry: Principles and Practice. He's a Clinical Teaching Fellow (Sports Dentistry & Oral Health) for UCL Eastman Dental Institute and helps deliver the Sports Dentistry: Oral Health in Sport MSc there.

Prof Peter Fine

Peter has been a general dental practitioner for over 40 years before becoming a part-time lecturer in CPD at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute in 2008. He currently has the grade of Associate Clinical Professor (Teaching) and regularly teaches on the Restorative Dental Practice programme Year 1 (Certificate). His main role on the Restorative Dental Practice programme is to supervise the MSc research students during their research year. This involves developing appropriate research projects, designing the research protocols and supervising the students undertaking the projects.

He has been the lead for sports dentistry courses at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute for 8 years, developing the subject from treating trauma in sportsmen and women to understanding the dental needs of athletes and the role that general dental practitioners can play in supporting athletes with respect to dental and oral health.