My practice manager Amanda and I did the Botulinum toxin and dermal filler foundation course with Dr Franks after hearing his lecture at the Irish Dental Conference. I had no experience with non-surgical facial aesthetics prior to this, but my practice manager had always shown a keen interest. The three-day course was held in London and I was able to bring Amanda along with me. She also acted as my model for the duration. We attended theory lectures coupled with hands on tra

In this series titled 'Face to Face', we delve into the World of our delegates and explore their facial aesthetic journeys, from our training to their first patient. Our hope is to help inspire our delegates to take that first leap into aesthetics. I am a dentist by education and an artist by passion: I always loved creating beautiful smiles. I worked as a dentist for 9 years before I started looking into facial aesthetics almost 10 years ago. I did a few courses, but never

How many of you feel like this every day? How many of you would want to remove one word from this statement? Could it be the word ’to’?!! Last year I received the following text from a dental colleague. It said, and I quote, “Brian read below – quite horrendous: I’ve just read a study report in the BDA. Basically 22% of UK Dentists are thinking of suicide today!!! Apparently 22% of UK dentists are now alcoholics. Most have poor health, most have poor mental health and most ar