Mentors

The SAAD National course can provide the underpinning knowledge required and an introduction to the clinical skills for sedation, but it is necessary to acquire clinical experience before embarking on independent practice.

How much clinical experience is required?

The Dental Sedation Teachers Group recommends that 20 IV cases and 10 RA cases constitutes competence in sedation.

Unless there is an experienced sedationist in the practice, this experience is difficult to acquire. To this end, the mentor’s list has been devised to enable fledgling sedationists to contact an experienced practitioner to act as a mentor.

List of Mentors

The list consists of practitioners who are prepared to offer advice and to supervise dentists who are inexperienced. The list contains over 80 dentists and gives details of location and the type of sedation used. All those on the list are SAAD members or members of the Dental Sedation Teachers Group.

How to use the list

Contact should normally be made after attending a SAAD course. Arrangements for clinical teaching sessions should be made on an individual and mutually agreed basis.

SAAD and the DSTG do not provide accreditation for teachers on the list and accepts no responsibility for the ensuing student/teacher relationship.

How to get the list

Apply by email to the Executive Secretary at SAADoffice@aol.com