With the increasing demands on the dental team, there is a renewed interest in the concepts of four-handed dentistry (4HD) in creating effective, safe work practices and increasing the interaction between you and your dental assistant.

This theoretical and practical hands-on course aims to motivate your dental team to provide a high standard of dental care, enhance your patients’ dental experience, increase productivity and minimise procedural dental distractions.

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify the dental surgery constraints
• Apply principles of 4HD to the dental practice
• Recognise the factors influencing poor posture
• decrease unnecessary movements in the dental treatment room
• Increase interaction of the dental team during dental procedures
• Gain commitment of the dental team to a deeper level of communication
• Increase the skill of the chairside dental assistant
• Increase dental assistant anticipation in dental procedures
• Understand strategies to implement changes to established work practices.