Dublin 11th October 2008

Smiles Dental Spa 

Hands-on RA Course

Dublin 11th October 2008

On a beautiful, sunny autumn day in Dublin,

fifteen members of the Smile Dental Spa group of dental practices, gave up their Saturday to come and learn about RA/Inhalation Sedation in Group’s flagship Practice.

My wife Chris, who as an RDN and certified Dental Sedation Assistant helps me run the course, facilitated by one of the group’s two clinical director, Dr. Anne O’Donnell from Wexford, ably assisted by her husband Shane.

The Smile Spa group’s flagship practice occupies an extraordinary position in central Dublin. Housed in an ornate Georgian building with massive Corinthian Pillars at its grand entrance, it had formerly been a bank. Various storage, staff and radiography facilities in the basement, occupy the original bank vaults, still with their armored doors!

The building overlooks the historic General Post Office in O’Connell St. the site of the heart of the Easter uprising and subsequent birth of the independent Irish state in 1916.  O'Connell Street is, I suppose, equivalent to London’s Oxford St. though it is a real boulevard in scale.

The stunning 260m high Dublin Spire is just a few steps from the practice entrance !

The fifteen delegates included dentists and DNs from the multi-chair clinic, set out as most us remember a dental hospital dept.

On the First floor are two splendidly laid-out more traditional surgeries, though in a very contemporary style. A large one and a smaller one where more advanced treatments are normally done.

The day’s teaching on Inhalation Sedation was carried out there with video link to the smaller surgery where the practical sessions took place. Additional video of real-time patient treatment both children and adults were shown to the group. As usual there was plenty of opportunity for interactive discussion.