GIFT
The single largest provider of dental implant education in the UK, with over ten years experience, delivered through an extensive network of regional centres. Training to over 60 dentists a year, of these 80% go on to advanced training programmes leading to a Masters degree in implant dentistry.
Objectives
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to enhance clinical skills for our patients benefit and improve the practice of implant dentistry
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to reduce isolation and encourage the exchange of ideas
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to enable part-time access to university accredited qualifications
ISO Certified to 9001
The only provider of implant education certificated to ISO 9001. This is an Internationally recognised standard for the quality management of businesses and applies to the processes used to develop and deliver the course. GIFT is required to demonstrate on an annual basis, to a fully UKAS Accredited, independent third party the quality of its programmes and organisation.
GOC WARNS GENERAL DENTAL PRACTITIONERS ON IMPLANTOLOGY (BDJ Vol.204 No.8 April 26-2008) General dental practitioners should not practice implantology without further training, the General Dental Council has warned. In a policy statement issued this month in the light of concerns raised with us about the practice of implant dentistry by general dental practitioners, the Council warns that dentists who carry out work for which they are not trained put their registration at risk. A UK-qualified general dental practitioner will not be competent to carry OUT implant dentistry without further training, the statement says.
It supports the requirements set out in Training standardsimplant in dentistry for general practitioners, produced by a GDC working group in 2005. This document says GDPs should complete a course in implant dentistry and undergo mentoring until the experienced implant clinician considers the practitioner to be competent. It also recommends that all GDPs should keep a detailed portfolio of their r training, their mentoring and an audited record of the implants they have placed. Such portfolios of activity could he used in any dispute to whether they were competent in implant dentistry, including complaints to the GDC the document concludes.
The GDC is considering whether further measures are required to regulate dentists practice in skills significantly beyond those acquired in their primary qualification for registration. This month’s guidance is an interim statement. Click here to see the General Dental Council report on visit to GIFT centres.
GIFT Teachers
Recognised experts give lectures, demonstrations and surgical memtoring. These include distinguished Professors, Maxillo-facial Consultants, Oral and Restorative Surgeons, University Lecturers, Researchers and experienced Implant Practitioners. All of the regional tutors are experienced implant dentists and have acquired postgraduate dental qualifications.
