A whole new world

The Society of British Dental Nurses (SBDN) is taking a broader look at dentistry to give an insight into how wide the field really is. One of our core values is around career progression and we try to keep our core values central to everything we do. We didn’t have a crystal ball when the theme was agreed, but what a coincidence given that we are all now being asked to think outside the box.

Often, we hear dental nurses saying they feel trapped or stuck and that they have done everything they can do and this can be the reason why dental nurses leave the profession. So, in listening to our delegates year on year and considering the bigger picture, we felt it was time to showcase some of the wider fields and, what’s more, some of the newer fields, procedures and techniques. Many of these lectures are pre-course tasters, too. Not many dental nurses of previous generations would even have imagined that we would be considering training dental nurses to undertake cannulation, play a part in identifying skin cancer or be involved in obesity strategy – it is a whole new world out there and it is there to be embraced.