Imaging Wisely. Getting The Diagnosis Right, While Keeping Radiation Light

In this session Lee will provide an update on the risks associated with ionising radiation, doses from 2D and 3D dental imaging. He will discuss the key ways to optimise dose and the appropriate application of different imaging techniques in modern dentistry.

Learning objectives

• Describe the risks associated with ionising radiation
• Describe the doses from Dental radiography and CBCT
• Understand some Important ways to optimise dose
• Introduce some key indications and limitations of modern imaging techniques

This talk satisfies the GDC’s learning outcome:

• A – Effective communication with patients, the dental team, and others across dentistry, including when obtaining consent, dealing with complaints and raising concerns when patients are at risk
• C – Maintenance and development of knowledge and skill within your field of practice
• D – Maintenance of skills, behaviours and attitudes which maintain patient confidence in you and the dental profession and put patients’ interests first

Lee Feinberg Consultant in Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology, King’s College Hospital, London and Eastman Dental Hospital, UCLH, London

Biography

Lee is specialist in Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology and works as a Consultant Dental and Maxillofacial Radiologist at Kings College Hospital, London and at the Eastman Dental Hospital, University College London Hospitals. He has served as Vice President of The International Association of DentoMaxilloFacial Radiology (IADMFR). He is a past Honorary Secretary of the British Society of Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology (BSDMFR) and past council member of the British Society of Head and Neck Imaging (BSHNI).

He graduated as a dentist from the University of Bristol. He completed his specialist training in Liverpool being trained by both Dental and Maxillofacial and ENT/Head and Neck Radiologists. He has clinical experience reporting Radiographs, CBCT, CT and MRI examinations. He performs specialist salivary gland imaging, diagnostic ultrasound and ultrasound-guided biopsies of the head and neck region.

He is passionate about education and holds a formal qualification in learning and teaching in higher education. He lectures regularly to postgraduate dental professionals. He is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London where he is actively involved in undergraduate teaching in Dental Radiology.