Welcome to "The RA Coach.com" from Richard Charon BDS

RA Course for Sat 21st. Jan update

2012-01-14T08:09:00.000Z

Audio-visual wiring being re-routed at Precision Dental Studio,
PowerPoint checked, camcorder checked, A-V connections checked.
RA equipment checked, food ordered, register and CPD certificates printed etc.
Ready to roll, setting up next Friday afternoon for Saturday's course. Delegates from Plymouth, Ireland, Manchester, Leamington Spa, Latvia, Estonia and Gerrard's Cross. Experience ranges from zero to very! Should be excellent.

Facial Aesthetics - A New Avenue?

2012-01-11T18:49:00.000Z

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Facial Aesthetics - A New Avenue?

I received the following Message from Dr. Peter Mounce at The Smile Team about 2 years ago, which shows great promise for using RA in Facial Aesthetic work undertaken by dentists. See how he uses this in his Website markeitng introduction

"We are all well and getting into RA.

Several cases completed now with good to excellent results.

2 mobile machines in operation working well with one portable scavenger unit - not clashed on usage yet.

Most remarkable cases to date :

20 external facial injections of Restylane without dental anaesthesia (no infra orbital and mental blocks) just 60:40 RA and accepted well by patients who reported 1-2 on pain scale of 1-10
and who where fully functioning at the conclusion - no 4 hr local to wear off!

Vast improvement....

Our best wishes to you and your team from the Smile Team and me. "

If this aspect of using RA is of interest to you , please contact me

richard@the-ra-coach.co.uk

Venue for 21st Jan 2012. Update News

2012-01-09T17:38:00.000Z

6 working days into our education suite refurbishments and it is now clear that the new venue will not be completed in time for Jan 21st. This being the case the venue will be Precision Dental Studio, Rivermead, off Piper's Lane, Thatcham, Berks. RG19 4EP, where will have use of both their Gold and Platinum rooms and their surgery too.

This is a dedicated education suite too, which we have used three times before very successfully.

For those attending, please ensure you arrive by 8.45am for coffee and registration.

Please get in touch if you have any queries.
richard@the-ra-coach.co.uk

RA course March 2012

2012-01-06T23:07:00.000Z

Decision made. The next available RA course will be in Newbury on 24th March 2012, 3 weeks after my appearance at The Dentistry Show. I know that some of you who have shown an interest will have been awaiting this announcement. Please let me know if this date is suitable for you.
Please e-mail richard@the-ra-coach.co.uk or call 01635 47757

Messages from Dental Masters

2011-12-22T23:18:00.000Z

Messages from Dental Masters (Mastering the Secrets of Successful Dental Practice) is the title of a new book. It is a compilation of thoughts, advice and insights aimed at dentists and written mainly by UK dentists but also others deeply involved in and with great expertise in the world of dentistry in the UK and Ireland. These include Business coaches and advisers specialising in advising dentists in the business of running dental practices. Many of these insights would apply to any entrepreneur or SME owner or director.

The book is the brain-child of and was compiled by Dr. Stephen Hudson, a highly organised dentist, a thought leader and not just on matters of dentistry but on wider matters of global politics and finance.

Another of his books is Choose your own Reality

Stephen writes a blog for dentists- not about teeth but about the wider issues surrounding being a dentist in today's world.

Back to Messages from Dental Masters. Stephen has approached a group of people from the UK dental world, whose opinions he values, for a wide variety of reasons and asked each to contribute a short chapter on the subject of mastering the secrets of successful dental practice.

Stephen has known a little about me for about 10 years and in particular about the coursers I run.

I teach other dentists and dental professionals about the "Happy Air" technique for helping people, anxious about dental treatment, to overcome their anxiety, so that they can attend for the dental care or treatment they need and want.

So it is with a feeling of both humility and yes, pride, that I found myself included in Stephen's choice of "Dental Masters" and so have written a chapter , now published in this new book.

Here is the list of the other contributors .

My chapter, "How Inhalation Sedation might improve your working life" espouses the idea that by having a simple and non-invasive tool, to help a large proportion of those with dental anxiety. It is based on my own experience over 33 years. People suffering from fear, anxiety and indeed phobia are part of the everyday challenge of every dentist. The difficulties and indeed for some dentists, the stress that this challenge causes them, may be greatly reduced if they are able to offer this technique. A win-win for all concerned.

Mine is one of the few chapters dealing with day to day clinical dentistry. The rest are more to do with work-life balance, keeping professional life in perspective and ways and means of balancing and getting right the multiplicity of roles and tasks that a dentist has to deal with. Not always a straightforward task.

My thanks to Stephen for giving me the opportunity to reach out to more dentists and thereby, potentially at least, to help many more people anxious about dentistry than I could ever possibly do myself.

Part of the proceeds from this book will go to charitable purposes. In fact 40% of all profits will be split equally between the BDA Benevolent fund and the Dentists Health Support Trust. Both are worthy causes, and vital in today’s economic environment.

You can order your copy of the paperback or e-book here.

Richard Charon

Follow-up testimonial from Apollonia House

2011-11-28T19:47:00.000Z

Just one (probably the best) of the comments received after last Saturday's course.

"Dear Richard,

I had a great day, I found your course top of the line. I have to say I didn't fill the feedback form, I did the questionare but didn't see that form, might have been because I rushed out because I had a long drive back. I've copyed what you wrote and can answer it this way if it's any good for you.

Venue: excellent

Relevence: excellent

Audio-visuals: very good

Speaker: excellent

I would really like for you to mentor me, but I'm afraid I work far away from you (Mansfield), I have used Inhalation Sedation many times before and I've done it to refresh and to get verifiable CPD. I've got a Master in Implantology and Oral Surgery from Spain in 2007 but I've been doing Implants since 2001 right after graduation, so in many cases I've used "happy air". If you could tell me if it's mandatory to be tutored for those 10 cases and if it is, how can I arrange to do that (I am sure you discussed that but I lost the first hour).

Thank you very much

It's been a real pleasure meeting you.

Kind regards.

Michel Michel "

So just as you can't please all the people all of the time, sometimes you can please some.

An Interesting day. RA (Inhalation Sedation) course- Apollonia House Nov 26th 20-11

2011-11-27T23:35:00.003Z

RA Course at Apollonia House 26th Nov.

Now we are safe and sound back home in Newbury it is time to reflect and take stock. The word that keeps coming to mind is... interesting, in many of the connotations of that word.

Interesting point one: The amazing location of Apollonia house, perched on an outcrop overlooking a valley in the area of Saddleworth Moor with wonderful views in all directions.

Before going further I must now pay tribute to Andy Lane, not just for hosting us at his stunning practice but also for spending almost the entire day in the background, working pretty much non-stop to try to fix several IT problems that descended on us simultaneously like a perfect storm. Thanks to his efforts most of the main issues were solved though one or two did remain to take the shine off some aspects of the program, it is fair to say. Still lessons have been learned. It is always more of a challenge delivering the course away from our home base.

In addition more thanks go out to several people.

First and foremost to my other half Chris, who soldiered-on gamely, to help the day run as smoothly as possible, having gone down with a cold the night before and having been awoken by the hotel alarm going off 3am ahead of our planned 6.30am start. This early rise ensured we missed the hotel breakfast, to start our set up.

Secondly, a huge thanks to our sponsors, Janet Pickles of RA Medical Services, whose attendance, input and help on the day by bringing duplicate mobile equipment and tubing, allowed us to adapt the equipment to the layout at Apollonia House. Also thanks for her generous sponsorship contribution toward the delegates lunches. Thanks also go to Jane Walters from Orascoptics, who also attended from 8.00 am and who provided an additional sponsorship contribution.

Thirdly, more huge thanks to Eva, Andy Boon's nurse who came in for the day, leaving an 8 week-old baby with dad, to ensure the clinical side ran very smoothly, as well as participating in the learning for the day. Eva was a great help to us and a great ambassador for the practice.

Last but not least, thanks go to Dr. Andy Boon, an associate at Apollonia House, who gamely took on the live treatment on one of his very anxious dental patients, (who had said,"I don't do dentists") whilst being watched by 14 other dentists and two nurses.

I undertook and oversaw the sedation, while Andy and Eva carried out a composite restoration. Despite hiring a camcorder especially for the occasion (as mine had been playing up) Andy Lane and I were unable establish a wired connection, to the projector, in the way I normally do, to relay images of live patient treatment to the delegates in another room.

As the surgeries at Apollonia House have glass walls and we used a corner surgery, with the patients permission, all the delegates could watch proceedings directly with some relayed commentary from me where appropriate.

So, interesting point number two. This was the 26th one-day course I have run and the 5th away from Newbury. The delegates were amongst the most diverse we have had. Two were highly experienced sedationists though mainly with IV sedation. Roy Bennett a colleague I had met before via SAAD and the DSTG, teaches at Liverpool Dental Hospital and has his Dip Sed. so as GDP myself, that was always going to be a challenge! Roy was very gracious I must say. The other GDP with IV sedation experience came with her nurse from N. Wales and they were the first Welsh delegates we had had
since I started in 2003. Interesting!

Another GDP delegate, Mick Speakman from Barnsley, was attending for the third time with three new associates. Mick has many years experience himself with RA and so had one of his three associates but they were happy to have a refresher. We were also joined by a dentist and his nurse who flew up from London and another GDP and his nurse who were driven up from London, that morning, by their practice manager, who delivered them, went off for the day himself and then returned to drive them back to London. A 17 hour day for them! We also had two dentists working in Aberdeen, one Portugese, one Spanish who had flown in the previous day to learn with us that day.

So it was that Chris and I first met Andy outside the practice at 7.30, still in the dark to unload the equipment and deploy it around the practice.
Back to my opening thoughts. Interesting. The practice itself is interestingly designed.
Glass walls around three sides, a continuous corridor running around all the surgeries leading to and from the reception area.

Each surgery having a glass wall too.

Privacy is ensured by a built in blind system, but when the venetian slats are rotated, a view is afforded of the surrounding hills and valleys for mies around.

We did have another interesting challenge though as none of the surgeries therefore have external windows and the external glass walls of the practice have no openings either. Since we require waste gases to be actively scavenged and exhausted out of the building, we had to come up with a solution for the day's demonstrations.

We did know the situation in advance and Janet Pickles of RA Medical services came armed with about 7 metres of exhaust tubing which Andy Boon succeeded in attaching to the air con vent 5 metres up, by fully extending himself on top of a ladder with me steadying it whilst the delegates, unaware, were having a break. You can see the black tubing snaking its way across the back of the surgery. rather spoiling the aesthetic! The RA machine can be seen in the back right corner.

The next highlights, were also "interesting". In the afternoon we had our usual live demonstration patient. She had been selected too weeks earlier and had agreed in principal. I had spoken to her the previous week, to reassure her and fully explain the procedure, to obtain her informed consent. She arrived with a friend for moral support, who by her comments, sounded even more anxious, about dental treatment herself. However with Chris's excellent support and reassurance she did hesitatingly come through to the surgery. We proceeded to use inhalation sedation and by this time the delegates were observing via half-closed venetian blinds. The sedation proceeded very nicely and then Andy Boon took over; provided the L.A. and proceeded to complete the planned lower premolar restoration, all with a totally relaxed patient.

Interestingly, as he was completing the last few moments of the procedure, the small oxygen cylinder began to run out (and with that the, nitrous oxide supply too- a safety feature). I decided that rather than start switching cylinders, since all that was left to do was polish the top of the filling on an anaesthetised tooth, there would be no problem. I reassured the patient that over the next to or three minutes the happy air relaxation would go away but since there was no more injections or drilling to do, all woul be well. Even so, as Andy finished off polishing the surface of the filling and the RA wore off, eveyone noted how the patient's totally relaxed demeanor changed. Her relaxed arms and hands became defensively folded. She drew up her legs, which had been flat on the chair and relaxed and generally returned to her usual anxious self, for the last minute or so.

Now for the the next interesting event. I asked the patient ( as I usually do) if she would be prepared to tell the delegates about the experience. Very briefly, she said that as a psychiatric nurse, indeed a matron, she liked to be in control but that she had been very surprised at how effective the technique had been in reducing her anxiety and that she would be happy have her treatment that way again.
Not a surprising result to those of us who have seen the technique used successfully but a real eye opener for those new to it. She also said how interesting it had been for her to compare treatment whilst sedated this way with the last 2 minutes when the sedation was wearing off.

We all thanked the patient as she left and then there was more of interest. Andy Boon agreed to come forward to give his story. He has treated this patient several times before, but it had always been difficult. A defensive tongue, frequent stops and so on. This time, Andy noted a complete change in her. Her tongue rested out of the way, at the back of her mouth and he was simply able to get on with the job in hand. Perhaps he would be kind enough to say more here soon, if I ask nicely!

At he end of the day's learning some had to leave early to get their transport. I have 9/15 feedback questionnaires returned. When I have more, I'll publish these too. That will be interesting.

All in all, despite some IT hiccups, I believe everyone had an interesting day!

Inhalation Sedation course in Saddleworth. Ready to Roll!

2011-11-24T06:45:00.002Z

Everything is set for the course at Andy Lane's practice in Saddleworth on Saturday.

We have a full house. Dentists from Aberdeen to London (two practices), Liverpool, N. Wales (a first), from Barnsley and Mansfield too as well as Andy Boon from Apollonia House. Not forgetting several Dental nurses too.

Lunches are being sponsored by trade supporters, RA Medical Services and Orascoptics, so we will have a very full day. Looking forward to meeting everyone

A huge thanks and special mention to two local Newbury businesses for their help at very short notice in getting me ready to deliver my RA course this Saturday.
Dan Oatway of Network Newbury and Mike Collington of Clere Education .

Dan has pulled out all the stops to help me at short notice as we had some issues with Mac to PC compatibility which slowed us down for 2 days and MIke seamlessley picked up the baton to get 1700 pages of handouts printed on time both provided outstanding customer service. Thank you both very much. Highly recommended!

CPD certificates, questionnaires and MCQs ( yes there is a test!) are being printed in-house today. More work for Mike in future!

The audio-visual and dental sedation equipment is lined up ready to roll. We head off Friday lunchtime to set up Friday afternoon. Now looking forward to meeting everyone.

Richard Charon

RA course in Januray now full.

2011-11-21T23:26:00.000Z

With the addition of five dentists from the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia , the January RA course is now full too.

With three from the Republic of Ireland, this will truly be an International gathering!
(Though we do have two Spanish dentists working in Aberdeen attending next Saturday in Saddleworth too!)

I am currently planning a course following that in March 2012 in Grantham, then in April which will either be in Newbury or Ireland depending on demand.

"Enough if something from our hands have power to live and act and serve the future hour" Wordsworth

A Guide to Maintaining Professional Standards in Conscious Sedation for Dentistry 2011

2011-11-06T20:32:00.000Z

Important documents were issued to delegates at the recent SAAD conference in September now available on-line: Only "A Guide to Maintaining Professional Standards in Conscious Sedation for Dentistry" need concern dentists, who only provide the newly classified "Level 1" sedation techniques, which include RA, IV with Midazolam, Oral Sedation or Intra-nasal Midazolam.

This document specifies the key areas of training and update required and it stipulates that those already providing Level 1 conscious sedation techniques should update every 5 years.

If a GDP or indeed a competent DCP attends one of my one-day courses, it will provide 7.5 hours vCPD of the 12hours required every 5 years. The other 4.5 hours can be made up at other meetings or journal questionnairres, for example, over 5 years. Not an onerous task.
If there is a demand I can also run a 1/2 day, (4 hours of vCPD) strictly for those already using RA.
Contact me richard@the-ra-coach.co.uk to discuss.

A new venue

2011-11-05T22:21:00.000Z

I am delighted to announce that having secured the lease to premises immediately adjacent to my practice this month, I am planning to develop a larger seminar suite for my hands-on RA courses,

I expect to be able to accommodate a maximum of 16 people. More news will appear when the premises have been fitted out by the end of January 2012

Inhalation Sedation. Another little success

2011-10-25T21:35:00.001Z

Vicki is my son's partner.
She came to me as a patient about 2 years ago. She was very fearful though not phobic. Here is her story,

Since then she has had several visits mainly using RA but more recently she has not always needed it.
Today she came for a minor filling which needed local anaesthetic (Using the Wand).

I said "Are you OK without the happy air for this" , she said "yes".
Then, as I prepared for the Wand, she suddenly said , "Actually I know I said I'd be brave but I'm getting panicky- can I gave the happy air after all"

"No problem" said I. Within 2 minutes she was sedated and I continued without so much as a hiccup.
10 minutes later the filling was finished ( it was a quick one) and 3 minutes later she was leaving the dental chair ready to go back to taking care of my grandson!

There is no other simple sedation technique to overcome such anxiety so quickly in a non-invasive way, with no prior preparation and with such rapid return to normal, allowing patients to return to work, school or childcare. Just another reason that I love RA so much !

If you would like this easy approach to dentistry call us at Newbury Smilemakers on 01635 47757 and arrange a free initial discussion of your fears and your needs.

A new appointment for the Private VT Project

2011-10-24T19:52:00.000Z

In addition to my other activities and upcoming articles to do with Inhalation Sedation, I can announce that I have been accepted onto a panel of lecturers, joining some illustrious names in UK dentistry, for the newly created Private Vocational Training project, spearheaded by Dr. Andy Lane, whose Apollonia House dental practice is hosting my next course in Saddleworth.

My time commitment is not fully settled yet but I believe Andy has in mind that the sedation modules will be delivered to the year 2 Private VTs.

I would envisage EVERY dentist taking up this route into private practice, would undertake RA training and mentorship through to competency certification.

An excerpt from "The Competent Graduate" published in 2000,relating to Conscious Sedation in Dentistry states:

" 3) Defining Competence

At graduation, dentists should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages of using conscious sedation techniques and should be capable of providing effective sedation for selected patients undergoing straightforward dental procedures in the primary care setting.
This means that the graduate should:

i) be able to assess a patient's need and suitability for conscious sedation and

ii) possess both the ability and confidence to apply knowledge and skills relating to inhalation sedation (using nitrous oxide and oxygen) and intravenous sedation (using midazolam)."

So this is an exciting new chapter for me.

Richard Charon

RA course on 26th November in Saddleworth- Now Full

2011-10-11T22:17:00.000Z

This image is just for illustration, showing our Dental Therapist treating a patient sedated by me.

The course on November 26th at Apollonia House in Saddleworth, near Oldham, is now fully booked.

We have 2 dentists and their Dental Nurses from different practices from London attending. They will be joined by 2 GDPs flying in from Aberdeen, a group of 4 GDPs from Barnsley. This will be the practice owner's 3rd visit to my courses. Also our first GDP and her DN from N.Wales & another GDP from Nottinghamshire plus Andy Boon from Apollonia House and last but certainly not least, my SAAD and DSTG colleague from Liverpool, Roy Bennett. A full-house indeed and a great mix of people. I am very much looking forward to meeting everyone.

Richard Charon

Its great to have made a difference

2011-10-05T22:04:00.000Z

Here are some great comments received today from two colleagues who attended the RA course earlier in 2011. These were in response to my request for support in the 2011 Private Dentistry Elite 20 competition:

“ ..you have shown me that sedation and gentle painless dentistry is more of a practice builder than anything else. I have employed this in my daily practice” ..

” I find being able to treat someone that hasn't been able to visit the dentist due to fear much more inspirational than reading the 1000th article about veneers and bleaching we find in every journal! “

Dr Uzman al Haq.

"I really enjoyed the course and I am seeing not only children but also adult patients under RA now. You might remember me, I am a paediatric dentist."
she also said "You have my vote already!"
Makbule Ogretme (Mac)

Its great to have made a difference to the practicing lives of these dentists, let alone their patients

Can I get one of your votes for one of the top 20 Private Dentists Competition?

2011-09-30T19:36:00.013Z

Why would you even consider it?

Well my case is a little unusual but since almost 50% of the adult population have some degree of dental anxiety, then any way practices can overcome this is a practice builder and a boon to the practitioner.

As "The RA Coach"©, I have been responsible for helping anxious private dental patients, way beyond my own private practice. I have done this by enabling other practitioners to gain the knowledge and confidence to introduce RA as a service.

Private practitioners and sometimes their teams, from Inverness to Kent and from Galway to the Channel Islands have been attending the courses I developed since 2003. Usually based in my own private practice, though if numbers or demand dictate , either from my private dental lab's own eduction suite or from other private practices.

These include, Dr. Richard Fretwell's Guidepost practice in Morpeth, Northumberland, Dr. Anne O'Donnell's practice in Wexford, The Smile group's flagship practice in Dublin and in Nov. 2011, Andy Lane's Apollonia House in Saddleworth , near Oldham.

Now those practitioner's own anxious patients are able to accept treatment, including more advanced or ambitious plans that they might otherwise reject. So this technique is a practice builder.

The courses I have developed to teach dentists (including specialists) and all members of the dental team have brought IHS/RA potentially to tens of thousands of anxious patients.

The RA Coach© and the training I have provided will be my legacy to the profession and to all those anxious people now able to accept treatment including facial aesthetics and extensive plans they would otherwise have avoided.

Website

Facebook group page

PS I have been commissioned by Private Dentistry to write an update article on Inhalation Sedation to appear next Jan. too

Go on , vote for me. You know it makes sense!

Vote Here

Brief intial overview report from SAAD conference 24.09.11

2011-09-24T20:28:00.006Z

Three headline topics presented at today's SAAD conference with a record attendance.

Excellent presentation with video of cases showing intranasal Midazolam on its own for short procedures or pre cannnulation for needle phobics. Mainly for special needs. though could have uses beyond this group of patients. NB immediate cannulation is required even if no additional dose is used to permit use of Flumazenil if needed.

DCP syllabus announced for Inhalation Sedation. 2nd SAAD pilot, full in Nov. Next planned for June 2012. Candidates selected only IF they go on to use it under supervision. Training standards as per new dental graduate. Additional material on Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology to make up for lack of coverage in their basic training. Generally excellent feedback from the 1st class of 11.

New printed guidance booklets issued for training standards for advanced techniques for adults and a separate booklet guide on maintaining standards in conscious sedation for dentistry.

3 levels of sedation with differerng requirements for CPD activity and training updates recognised.
Level 1 = basic techniques. I.S. / IV Midazolam/ Oral & Intra-nasal.
Level 2 = Advanced techniques for adults: Propofol, Ketamine, Polypharmacies, Opiods, Sevofluorane etc
Level 3= Advanced techniques for children

Controversy as some PCTs apparently saying Flumazenil must never be used. David Craig and others say this is nonsense and needs to be challenged.

SAAD Autumn Conference 2011

2011-09-24T06:42:00.000Z

Well this will be a different blog post. I am on the train to London for the SAAD confeeence at the Royal Society of Medicine. The conference title is "Beyond the basics"

The program includes the following topics.

Morning sessions
Intra-nasal Midazolam, which is mainly used for special needs patients. 1 hour

Sedation Dentistry in Spain. This will be interesting as I have recently had interest from a Spanish dentist wishing to travel to Newbury for my RA courses. 25 mins.

An update on the SAAD training coures for Therapists and Hygienists "What next" 30 mins.

CPD recommendations for practitioners.20 mins.

Training for advanced Sedation techniques 20 mins

Presentations 5 mins

Lunch: Time to network!

Baby Boomers: The challenges for sedation Dentistry 1 hour

Evaluation Benefits for Clinical Governance & CQC 30 mins

Anxiety management without drugs. An Update: 30mins

So that is what is in store for me this Saturday.

I'll write a brief summary on each presentation later.

CALL FOR RA COURSE RESERVATIONS

2011-09-18T08:37:00.001Z

CALL FOR RA COURSE RESERVATIONS
26th Nov. 2011

Dear All,

This is call for confirmation of reservations for the next RA course at
Apollonia House, Saddleworth, Nr Oldham on Nov. 26th.

We have a maximum of 15 places and 10 of these are now booked and paid for to date.

Please do let me know if you wish to confirm a place/places.

To arrange payment of your fees to secure your reservation from Tuesday 20th Sept.

Please call us on

01635 47747 ) +441635 47757 from outside the UK

We are away Thursday 22nd for the SAAD conference.

The course following that one will be held in Newbury on Jan 21st 2012
Course fees will be increasing for Jan

July 2011: RA course futher comments

2011-07-31T06:43:00.000Z

Here, three of the course delegates offer some further comments about their day's training with us in Newbury last week. The first is from a dental hygienist, the wife of a GDP practice partner, who attended with two of their dental nurses:

"Thank you Richard for your prompt reply . We all thoroughly enjoyed the course and have much food for thought. I am busy telling my husband all about it! "

The next two are from GDPs. One an experienced RA user, the other not yet practicing in the UK but I understand is working towards her GDC overseas registration exam.

Interestingly both practitioners, who do not work together and with very different backgrounds and previous experience, made almost exactly the the same comment. Can you spot it?!

" Dr.Charon, many thanks for such an interesting course and for sharing all your wide knowledge and experience about RA with us. I had 10 years of private and hospital general experience in my own country, and the foundation knowledge of sedation from my training, but before I have done your course, I had never thought that RA was an achievable and excellent tool for the comfort of nervous patients, especially in private practices.

The course content, the facilities, and venue were excellent. You had make it simple and easy to understand.

Thank you to the whole team, for making this day such an informative and enjoyable one.

Esperanza Salazar"

The second is copied here from a comment left on the previous blog post.

Thank you Richard for an excellent comprehensive overview of RA. As an experienced RA user, I have not had any further training since my undergraduate days, and it was most reassuring to see that you have a very similar take on the subject to myself. Interestingly, I have never considered RA as a tool for private dentistry, - you certainly have opened that door for me - many thanks - Rob Regan

July 2011: RA course report

2011-07-24T08:00:00.007Z

Saturday 23rd July -
27th Hands-on training day in Inhalation Sedation with Dr. Richard Charon in Newbury.

Another excellent course with a great group of people today in Newbury. The day was very interactive, with lots of questions and discussion and excellent feedback (see below)

Dental professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds attended, making it a full house of 8 at my dental practice. We had one dentist working in NE London in The Community Dental Service, another soon to begin in a Manchester practice, another currently seeking her GDC entrance requirements to practice in the UK from a European country. A fourth dentist with RA experience and his dental nurse from a larger practice in Wiltshire and a Hygienist and two dental nurses from the same practice in Hampshire.

So of the eight feedback forms , three gave me an "excellent" score in all categories for

Venue,
Relevance to the subject,
Audio-visuals and
Speaker,

Which was generous since I had to own up to an Audio-visual glitch at the start.

Another three gave me scores of very good or excellent in all categories

One returned feedback of

Excellent - Speaker
Very good for A-v and Relevance
with only a "Good" for venue.

Which is fair enough, as my practice is not a conference hotel.
The last feedback form said

Excellent to relevance,
Very good to Speaker and
Good to Venue and Audiovisuals

Overall I am pleased with this feedback. Here are some of the comments:

" Thank you very much to the whole team for making it such an informative and comfortable day. I feel enabled to take the training I have had forward and implement it in practice."

" Having had very little experience in Inhalation Sedation, this course has certainly increased my confidence and enthusiasm in being able to start providing it. Money well spent ! For me and my patients "

"Thanks for a very informative and relaxed day. Lunch superb ! "

"Very enjoyable, informative day. Thank you"

The next date is set for September 17th and is potentially full once confirmations are received.

We are also booking for Saturday 12th November.

Tel: 01635 47757

e-mail: richard@the-ra-coach.co.uk

A positive comment from May 7th 2011

2011-05-15T12:58:00.000Z

Richard the main thing about the course that was good was the fact that you can see the whole dental team is fully involved in not only your seminars but also your practice.

You can see that chris and yourself take great pride in your work and it shows through the course!

thanks

Uzman

Inhalation Sedation curriculum for DCPs

2011-05-13T18:57:00.000Z

GDC Scope of practice and Inhalation Sedation competency training for Dental Hygienists and Therapists.
It is just over 5 yrs since the GDC's Scope of Practice initiative was published, permitting Hygienists and Therapists to act as operator-sedationists in administering Inhalation sedation to overcome dental anxiety,

The DSTG (Dental Sedation Teachers Group) announced yesterday, at their annual symposium, held at the Maritime Museum in Liverpool, that they are to collaborate with SAAD in setting up a curriculum for the training of Hygienists and Therpists in Inhalation sedation.

This comes at the exact moment the GDC is calling for input into a root and branch review of the Scope of Practice, which will include what should be removed from the list of possible allowed tasks, as well as the possibility of adding new tasks to the list.

Perhaps those on the DSTG and SAAD committees already know that Inhalation Sedation for DCPs,once competency has been certified,is to be kept as part of the Scope of Practice. Perhaps they should and indeed will wait for the outcome of the review before committing resources to producing such a curriculum.

Richard Charon

2011-05-08T12:37:00.001Z

#dentistry Relaxing and playing grandad- or will be soon after successful course yesterday in #Newbury www.theracoach.blogspot.com

Feedback comments from May 7th Teaching day

2011-05-08T12:18:00.007Z

We hosted a mix of Dentists and Dental nurses, some in Private Practice others in the NHS

including community services.

They came from
Hull,
Reading, Berks (local to us),
Sevenoaks, Kent and Croyden, Surrey

Here are some feedback comments

"One word; Excellent! Thank you very much"

"Learned a lot . Many thanks"

"I have been using RA for 25 years and still learnt

a great deal from Richard.

A very valuable day, many thanks"

"Excellent course.

Well presented and explained,

will definitely be providing RA in Practice"

I think these add nicely to the many other testimonials we have received.

If you want see more here they are

2011-05-07T17:08:00.003Z

Back now after a ful day's teaching/delivering RA course No. 26 Excellent feedback. I'll post tomorrow

2011-05-07T17:08:00.001Z

Back now after a ful day's teaching/delivering RA course No. 26 Excellent feedback. I'll post tomorrow

2011-05-06T20:08:00.001Z

All systems go 4 tomorrow teaching dental teams the "happy air" sedation method for overcoming dental anxiety. www.the-ra-coach.co.uk

2011-05-04T06:34:00.001Z

Why was yesterday such a good day for us? http://ow.ly/4MAqa

25th Hands-on RA course- Great comments

2011-04-04T18:28:00.000Z

Another very successful day's learning on March 26th. Our 25th Hands-on RA course. This time back at the practice in Newbury for a smaller group. We had a GDP and his RDN attending from Northern Ireland for the first time, two practitioners who work in the community service and our Dental Therapist.

The day was so interactive that we ended up being a little pushed for time at the very end, when the group completed a 10-question, multiple choice, knowledge test, to finish the day.

The simple feedback questionnaire which asks for grading on Venue, Relevance, Speaker and Audio-visuals, returned a result of 100% "Excellent" in all categories.

Here are the comments received,on the day and another received on reflection:

"Super Patient AND Practitioner centred course. Will affect + direct mu professional practice for years to come. Lecture notes are excellent.

Thanks Richard and Chris

Paul Cochrane"

"Learned so much today. Very interesting. Thanks Chris and Richard and all the team"

"A very thorough course- answered all of my questions + worries with the help of visual aids and practical sessions. Thank you."

"Very informative

All Q's anwered

Lots of Practical/hands-on

Lots of breaks/ variety so not bored"

"Really enjoyed the day - Thank you"

and this one received two days later

"Dear Richard

Many thanks to you and Chris again - I have been inspired.Can't forget the video of the little girl having her premolars out and not moving a muscle."

If you are considering attending one of these one-day training courses, then perhaps these comments and those below will help you make up your mind.

Please contact me now to book for May 7th 2011 or call for any further details 01635 47757.

Remember your nurse should come too unless she has already received training.

Here are a few more details plus more wonderful testimonials in my brochure:

Richard Charon

RADCT

2011-03-30T22:56:00.008Z

What is RADCT? RA Dental Competency Training. I am excited to announce our new competency training course in RA /IS for Therapists and Hygienist. More information here. Please like and pass this forward to DCP friends and contacts and be sure to join my facebook page for updates

Competency in Inhalation Sedation

2011-03-30T21:45:00.011Z

Announcing a brand new course for

Dental Therapists and Hygienists for 2012.

Ease your clinical burden when treating
dentally anxious patients

Competency in Inhalation Sedation

to comply with GDC Scope of Practice.

Help your anxious patients and reduce your own stress.

Fulfill you PDP and CPD requirements with
this important anxiety management
and for those in private practice
a potentially revenue generating technique.

This closely tutored course can be compared in
educational structure to the DCP radiography course.

Commencing January 2012

Venue: Newbury, Berkshire

20% discount for on-line applicants

registering before August 1st 2011

This course will not be advertised in the dental press until June 2011

Places will be limited to 20 candidates.

Tutors, Course Assessors and Competency Certification

This competency certification course has been devised by and will be delivered by Dr.Richard Charon BDS and Christine Charon RDN Cert Dent. Sed. Nursing

Richard Charon is one of the UKs most experienced
“RA” practitioners and teachers.

Richard has been an “RA” sedation practitioner for 35 years
and is on the mentors list for DSTG and SAAD.

Richard and Chris have delivered 25 full-day workshops

with excellent learner feedback since 2003.

Dental teams from all over the UK and Ireland

have testified to the quality of his teaching in Inhalation Sedation ( R.A.)

from Private and NHS Practice

as well as the Community Dental Service.

Chris Charon trained at the Manchester Dental Hospital and had many years experience in sedation dentistry, using standard techniques and assists in running

the one-day hands-on training workshops in Newbury

Between them they have managed and treated over
8000 Inhalation Sedation cases.

Please note that SAAD are not currently providing
competency certification training.

For more information and to register your interest:
e-mail richard@the-ra-coach.co.uk

More background information on our RA courses

Keep up to date with developments on my RA facebook group

RA helps restore faith in Dentist in Newbury

2011-03-11T18:33:00.000Z

Today we received this lovely testimonial from one of our patients. Addressed to my wife Chris who runs the practice and is our Treatment Coordinator too.

Hi Chris ,

Just to say thanks again to you and Richard for having a go at fixing that
for me yesterday and for explaining about the veneers. Sounds like that is
next course of action. Just a shame I didn't find you earlier as I may have
been able to save my teeth from being in the state they are now! I know you
now have a complaints procedure but I'm not sure if you have a 'compliments'
one. In case you do then thanks again for helping to restore my faith in
dentists and making it much easier to visit the dentist! (the happy gas is
also fabulous!)

Zara

If you would like to try us to see if we can help restore your faith in dentists, why not call Chris on 01635 47757 . And yes, the happy gas is also fabulous!

RA course Animoto

2011-03-10T22:57:00.000Z

I hope you enjoy this latest promotional animoto video for my RA courses.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

2011-02-17T11:12:00.001Z

About to close the list for my March 26th RA course in #Newbury. Includes a GDP and his DN travelling from (London)Derry. A first from N.I.

2011-02-15T19:40:00.001Z

About to close the list for my March 26th RA course in #Newbury. Includes a GDP and his DN travelling from (London)Derry. A first from N.I.

2011-02-01T20:51:00.001Z

I've now set a date in May for a follow up RA course, which is Sat. May 7th.

Anticipating the Newbury RA course 15th Jan 2011

2011-01-07T19:54:00.001Z

I am starting to look forward to our next RA course on 15th Jan in Newbury (Thatcham in fact).

It will follow the tried and trusted formula we used last November and have developed over 23 courses since 2003.

Teams will be attending from Winchester, Sutton, Camberley and Galway, yes that is on the on west coast of Ireland. Indeed this team will not the first to come to Newbury from Galway.

Our new trainee dental nurse, Kate, will also attend for a crash course. She has had six months dental nursing experience but only started with us this week, so RA will be new to her.

We will be eight Dentists (maybe nine) and eleven dental nurses.

The teaching day will be held for the 3rd time at Precsion Dental Studio's education suite in Thatcham.

If this is of interest to you or anyone you know , please get in touch.

01635 47757

richard@newburysmilemakers.com

Please also visit www.the-ra-coach.co.uk for more details, testimonials, future dates and course fees.

Testimonial from Dr.Anne O'Donnell from 2006

2010-12-13T22:53:00.001Z

Today I was looking back at some earlier testimonials for the courses that I run and this once was especially pleasing

Dr. Anne O'Donnell's Testimonia:

HANDS-ON COURSE IN RELATIVE ANALGESIA - 6th May 2006

Dr.Anne O'Donnell travelled across from Wexford in Ireland with her two dental nurses. As a result of her visit to us in Newbury and the one day Hands-on RA training course she attended, we are now working together to arrange for a similar course to be run in Ireland. This is what she said about her day with us.

"Dear Richard,

Many thanks for your email but more especially thank you for a superb day on Saturday. I have attended lots of courses but I would have to say that your course was one of the best because of your philosophy and approach to dentistry and patients. I would hope that I have a similar approach but unfortunately haven't had the added benefit of Ra for the last 22 years but will have for the remainder of my career!!!. As I said to you on Saturday you are a true ambassador for the profession and it would be nice if more of our profession emulated you. Ann Marie & Sinead also really enjoyed the day and are fired with enthuasism now for RA...... "

If you are reading this , then perhaps you are ready to contact me to book yourself and your team on the next available course .

rwcharon@btinternet.com

01635 47757

Course dates for early 2011

2010-12-08T21:38:00.000Z

The next two Hands-on RA courses in Newbury

will be on

Saturday Jan 15th

8 places left as this blog post goes out

Saturday 26th March

Please contact me for further details or to book your places(s)

richard@newburysmilemakers.com

Inhalation Sedation Course November 2010

2010-11-25T07:38:00.003Z

We had a full house attending our Hands-on Inhalation Sedation / RA course at Precision Dental Studio's Education Suite in Thatcham, near Newbury, on Saturday 6th November.

My warm thanks to the following, whose generosity and help made the day possible.

Janet Pickles of RA Medical Services for the free loan of a mobile stand and RA mixing head to enable me to run the course at this venue

Precision Dental Studio for their excellent facility and making available the wonderful Maurice to lay in the Cat5 cabling between the lecture/presentation room and the surgery at the other end of the building requiring much clambering about in the roof space and for looking after us on the day. Not bad for 70+ !

Mark Chapman of Velopex for their generous and free loan of the Aseptico mobile dental chair for demonstrations.

Dhru Shah of Dentinaltubules.com for providing delegates with the tiniest USB MP3 players I've ever seen.

Dan Oatway of Network Newbury for help and cabling/connection solutions for the audio-visuals.

Last but not least a big thanks to my wife Chris and the team for their assistance on the day, arranging the lunch and generally supporting me.

I will follow this up with some testimonials/comments very soon but in the meantime, they say a picture paints a thousand words , so here are several thousand to give you a flavour of the day .....

The lecture session starts the day

The practical demonstration begins


Paying close attention to the details

Passing on 35 years of accumulated knowledge

At the end of the day ( there's always one!!)

Read all about it. Todays' Article for Apex

2010-07-01T21:39:00.000Z

I am delighted to have been commissioned to write an article on the subject of "RA" and and how I came to evolve my training courses, for Apex, the innovative on-line dental magazine.

My thanks to Marita Kritzinger for the invitation and producing an excellent on-line publication
Inhalation Sedation- an underutilised sedation modality in the UK

Ruth Lovering, Dental Hygienist's article

2010-06-24T22:46:00.000Z

Thanks to Ruth Lovering, Dental Hygienist, for her article on the RA course she attended with us in Newbury, in February 2010.

BNI Testimonial

2010-02-12T11:00:00.000Z

Today I attended the Jack O'Newbury BNI Chapter. BNI is an international networking group. I've been a member for just over 2 years now.
This morning was a special visitors day meeting and 20 visitors swelled the normal number of about 35. During the meeting members can, if they wish, read aloud a testimonial to another member for the services that have been provided to them.
I was delighted that Alison Stanton of AMS Worldwide Couriers stood up, put her hand on my shoulder and read out a testimonial for me to a room of 55 local business people, including reps from the Newbury Weekly News and the new Newbury Sound local radio station and Gavin Baine, BNI regional Director

Here is what Alison said

" Testimonial for Richard Charon - Changing Smiles - Changing Lives"

During the Christmas period my 9-year-old daughter, who had never had any dental treatment before, was complaining of a bleeding tooth. She wasn't in any pain but we were going on holiday for a week after Christmas and I didn't want to run the risk of her developing pain whist we were away on holiday.

I called Richard at 9am one morning when the heavens were pouring with snow, not really expecting the dental practise to be open in such weather conditions, and received a very positive response. If I could bring her to the practise Richard could see her straightaway. This I did, and by 10 am Rhian was having her first experience of a filling. When we got home her elder sister said 'did it hurt?' Rhian replied 'not at all. He gave me this nice stuff to breathe and I didn't feel scared one bit'.

Richard handled my daughter with a great deal of sensitivity and understanding. He took the time to explain to her everything he was going to do and what all the different bits of apparatus were for. As a result her first experience of dental treatment was relaxed and stress free. If only my own childhood experiences had been the same.

I would not hesitate to recommend Richard to anyone requiring dental treatment - especially those of a nervous disposition and, in particular, children for whom a positive of dental treatment is essential.

Alison Stanton.
A wow testimonial indeed. Thank you so much Alison.

RA course Nebwury Feb 6th 2010

2010-02-07T10:00:00.001Z

I am just recovering from yesterday's Hands-on RA course in Newbury. A diverse and wonderful bunch of people attended from all over the UK. From Inverness, Dave and Barbera Naisby, something of a celebrity couple in the world of dental practice marketing and just a 75 min flight to Bristol then a 1 hour drive away from Newbury.

We also had Peter Winter-Moore and his team from the Midlands. He has been threatening to attend the course for about 3 years now and finally made it yesterday and Ruth Lovering, a Dental Therapist from Croydon attended too. We had a fantastic day of sharing knowledge and interactivity. I will blog some of the comments and feedback soon.

Here we all are at the lunch break in Prezzos, just a step away from my practice, built in the town's old library and retaining many of its old features. It just adds some extra colour to the day and a chance for more discussion over lunch.

RA Course at The Guidepost Dental Practice. Nr. Morpeth

2009-12-08T18:15:00.000Z

Well the course is now over and my very big thanks to Richard and Josie Fretwell for hosting it at their Guidepost Dental Practice in Northumberland on Saturday 5th December

The night before leaving Newbury, I ran the PowerPoint on my laptop to check it and add a couple of slides. My wife ,Chris and I set off from Newbury about 10 am last Friday, had a slow and tedious drive up to the Morpeth area, arriving there about 8pm.

Josie and Rich were most hospitable, not least as their daughter Claudia had had her 6th birthday party that afternoon. Just as well we did arrive a little late.

So we settled down to some hospitality and a "gettitng to know you" evening with our hosts, deciding it was already too late to drive 30 minutes to the practice to set up the audio-visuals for the next day, just as we had done 20 times before.

Gremlins Strike

So bed by 11pm ready for an early start and allowing an hour to set up before 1st arrrivals at 8.45am
AWAKE at 4am. Finally out of bed at 5am. Last run through of Powerpoint. Laptop would not boot up!!
Mutliple attempts at diagnostics etc - continued over breakfast BUT luckily I had a full back-up on a seperate hard drive, so no panic as I could run it form Rich's laptop.

At the practice, set up his projector,laptop and cabling to the nearby surgery, to patch-in live video-link and remote mic. so delegates could watch and hear two cases as they occured.

BUT ..then unable to get video image to project. It appeared that both projectors were not picking up the camcorder output, though the onboard screen looked normal - people now arrivng- me still tinkering with cables and connections.

The show must go on ..

I had no option but to abandon the video- link part of the show though two patients had been booked for the demos.

I continued with the planned program with PowerPoint assisted presentation. The morning patient allowed a few of the delegates who had not seen "RA" used, to stand-in whilst Rich Fretwell carried out the live demonstration.
She then came through and gave a brilliant , unscripted review to the delegate of how her entire dental experience had been transformed since Richard Fretwell had been able to offer her the help of Inhalation Sedation (RA) for her dental treatment.

We had lunch at the local hostelry and a chance to chat to the delegates.

One more patient was to be seen in the afternoon. In the midst of my afternoon session, the calvary arrived. Josie Fretwell appeared - a little puffed, carrying an alternative camcorder which she brought from home, a half-hour drive way. Alas the connector wiring was not compatible. So in the end the delegates were unable to see the last case.

All's well that ends well

Well despite these technical setbacks we received the following feedback comments:

"Hi Richard, just a short note to thank you for the fantastic course.it was such a pleasure meeting you and Chris. Carla and I had such a lovely time. are there anymore courses on other subjects?!!!!"

“... all in all a great day”

“Enjoyable, Interesting, Very good in general”

“Very Interesting & delivered in a fun way”

“Very Very Good”

So many thanks to the delegates from Manchester, from Sunderland the Guidepost team and especially the delegates from Hastings - a 712 mile round trip !

Next ....

The next course in February in Newbury may even be over-subscribed if all who have shown interest attend and an extra course in Dublin in January now seems likely.

Meet The RA Coach at the Dental Showcase

2009-11-09T22:36:00.000Z

Meet me at the Dental Showcase

Ease your clinical burden and attract new patients
Win new patients in the downturn
Offer something new and different!
Demonstrate why yours is no ordinary dental practice
Remember satisfied and happy people refer more great people to you!

Hands–on training day in
Relative Analgesia / Inhalation Sedation

Dr. Richard Charon BDS has been running, one-day Hands-on courses in
Newbury, Berks & Wexford and Dublin since 2003.

A dentist has a duty to manage patient’s anxiety.

Failure to do so may have dento-legal ramifications!
In a downturn, people with dental neglect through fear will
always find a way forward IF you can offer one!

Relaxation of GDC regulations governing DCPs will allow Therapists and possibly eventually Hygienists to administer RA once they have been trained!

Speaker and Course Director:
Dr. Richard Charon BDS
With 30 years experience using R.A.

I am a member and mentor for both SAAD and DSTG
I have been running his hands-on RA training courses since 2003.

The one day Hands-on course aims to:
Reduce your stress levels in dealing with anxious patients.
Provide a detailed training day in the background theory and successful practical application of RA / Inhalation Sedation.

Present case studies, live and video patient demonstrations together with

30 years of experience.
Open up a wide range of treatment options for anxious and gagging patients-

a whole new experience!
7 Hours of Verifiable CPD available

Dates: 5th December 2009. 8.45am – 5pm
Venue: Guidepost Dental Practice Morpeth, Northumberland
6th February 2010, Newbury

Price: £395 (VAT not applicable) for Dentists, Therapists and Hygienists £190 FOR RDNs
More details Past delegates testimonials contact me

The Ultimate Tweet-up for Dentists

2009-10-23T12:13:00.009Z

Well I am delighted and excited to be able to unveil a new project that I have been working on for a few months now.

In concert with Mark Oborn dental technician and e-marketeer extraordinaire, Kevin Rose of Aziumuthdental. Dental Business Consultancy and Mike Samuels a medical photographer with enormous experience, we have devised an excellent day of advantage for dentists and their teams.

In January next year we will be running "a dental event to die for! "
4 presentations with (6 hours of verifiable CPD) are planned on each of our specialist areas.

If you are the Dental Showcase Exhibition in November at the Birmingham NEC please make a point of "Tweeting-up" with us all. Just follow the link and sign up.

Hope to see you there

Richard Charon

Dental Angels Newsletter article

2009-09-24T19:27:00.007Z

Dental Angels are the most innovative and forward thinking dental recruitment Agency based in London.

Who are they? Well I am delighted to have been invited by Alex Kremer and Kelly Haggett to write an article on the subject of Inhalation Sedation/ Relative Analgesia for the very first issue of their Newsletter.

Today Kelly Haggett said " Just wanted to say a HUGE thanks from Alex and I for writing such a brilliant article - it makes for a great read."

So here is the article

The RA Coach Website

Next Hands-on RA Course 2009

2009-09-16T05:40:00.006Z

Training day in Relative Analgesia/Inhalation Sedation

Would you like to be able to...

• Ease your clinical burden and attract new patients?
• Win new patients in the downturn?
• Offer something new and different?
• Increase the scope of treatment for anxious patients?
• Remember satisfied and happy people refer more great people to you? Then please join us for a

One-day Hands-on training course

“Success with Relative Analgesia/ Inhalation Sedation”

Presented by Course Director:Dr. Richard Charon BDS

Now in its 6th year with 20 courses presented to dental teams, from Aberdeen to the West Country and Ireland.

• A dentist has a duty to manage patient’s anxiety. Failure to do so may have dento-legal ramifications!
• In a downturn, people with dental neglect through fear will always find a way forward IF you can offer one!
• Relaxation of GDC regulations governing DCPs will allow Therapists and possibly eventually Hygienists to administer RA once they have been trained!
Dr. Richard Charon BDS
30 years experience using R.A. He is a member and mentor for both SAAD and DSTG, Richard has been running his hands-on RA training courses since 2003. The one day training course aims to:
• Reduce your stress levels in dealing with anxious patients.
• Provide a detailed training day in the background theory and successful practical application of RA / Inhalation Sedation.
• Present case studies, live and video patient demonstrations together with 30 years of experience.
• Open up a wide range of treatment options for anxious and gagging patients and a whole new dental care experience!

7 Hours of Verifiable CPD available

By Special Invitation, the next course will be at

The Guidepost Dental Practice, Morpeth, Northumberland

Date: Saturday 5th December 2009.

8.45am(Coffee and Registration) for 9am – 5pm

Course Fees £395 (VAT not applicable) for Dentists, Therapists and Hygienists
£180 for DNs
More details can be found here: http://www.the-ra-coach.com/;

To read past delegates testimonials go to:

http://the-ra-coachcoursetestimonials.blogspot.com/

To book and for an application form: rwcharon@btinternet.com

or call 01635 47757

2009-07-21T17:52:00.003Z

Thinking about attending one of my "RA" courses?

If you are considering attending one of my

R.A. / Inhalation Sedation teaching courses
please read on

From Dr. Ashley Davenport, Balsall Common dental practice.

Here is what he said in his own words

"Dear Richard,

We attended your Relative Analgesia course in December 2006.I am writing to say a big thank you to you and your team for making the day so interesting and enjoyable.I am particularly grateful to you for all your help and advice regarding the installation and set up of the equipment. We gained a great deal of knowledge about Inhalation Sedation and have since started offering Relative Analgesia to our own patients. We have been using Inhalation Sedation in our practice for 3 months now and have found it a great help to our patients.
Thanks again, we couldn't have dome it without your help!

Yours Faithfully

Rebecca Kilmurray Clinical Manager
Dr.Ashley Davenport Practice Owner "

More testimonials from past course delegates can be found by

following these links

Please e-mail or call 01635 47757

to book or for more information

Dr.Ashley Davenport's Testimonial

2009-07-21T17:44:00.005Z

Thinking about attending one of my RA courses?

If you are considering attending one of my

Realtive Analgesia/Inhalation Sedation teaching courses,
please read on

From Dr. Ashley Davenport, Balsall Common Dental Practice.

Here is what he said in his own words:

"Dear Richard,

We attended your Relative Analgesia course in December 2006. I am writing to say a big thank you to you and your team for making the day so interesting and enjoyable.I am particularly grateful to you for all your help and advice regarding the installation and set up of the equipment.We gained a great deal of knowledge about Inhalation Sedation and have since started offering Relative Analgesia to our own patients.We have been using Inhalation Sedation in our practice for 3 months now and have found it a great help to our patients.
Thanks again, we couldn't have done it without your help!

Yours Faithfully

Rebecca Kilmurray Clinical Manager
Dr.Ashley Davenport Practice Owner "

You will find more testimonials from past course delegates by following these links

http://the-ra-coachcoursetestimonials.blogspot.com/
andhttp://racoursedelegateupdate.blogspot.com/

Welcome to The RA Coach.com

2007-07-28T09:43:00.002Z

Welcome to The RA Coach.com

This blog site has moved to a new website. I will leave the blog content on-line .

You will find plenty of information here . Otherwise please use this link

NEW RA COACH WEBSITE

A Warm welcome to GDP(uk) list members from Richard Charon BDS

2007-07-08T12:20:00.000Z

My next Hands-on RA course is on 3rd. November 2007,in Wexford, Rep. of Ireland.

You know how some patient’s names on the day list cause your heart to sink because they are so anxious or they gag or they are youngsters who are going to try your patience?

Which means that you may

Run late (with income implications),
Fail to do your best for your patient or
Just fail to provide a successful “patient journey”

Well what I do is offer practice-based, hands on courses ,both at my practice in Newbury and around the UK and in the republic of Ireland, with live and pre-recorded patient demonstrations.

Which means that you will be able confidently to offer this well tried and tested, safe and easy method of sedation to existing and new patients alike, growing your practice and gaining new testimonials from happy clients.

In turn, you will benefit from less stress and from being able to :

To treat gaggers (molar endo and impressions included) ,
4 quadrant ortho extractions in one visit
Treat virtually any moderately anxious patient aged from 4 – 94 and
Discover a new way of differentiating your practice from the rest.
And more besides

Would you like to know more?

Past course delegates have found these traininig days to be a far cry from dental hospital or lecture theatre environments. use this link to read some of their testmonials see below

For more details and a booking form

Contact me: rwcharon@btinternet.com

or on 01635 47757

For past course delegates testimonials on the courses themselves

http://the-ra-coachcoursetestimonials.blogspot.com/

For past course delegates comments on their experiences having been on the course,

http://racoursedelegateupdate.blogspot.com/

For some patients own stories of how RA has helped them

http://the-ra-coachrapttestimonials.blogspot.com/

Thinking about attending one of my RA courses?

2007-06-13T21:39:00.000Z

If you are considering attending one of my Inhalation Sedation teaching courses

please read on

2nd July 2007

Another nice helium moment for us arrived in the post today from Dr. Ashley Davenport, Balsall Common dental practice. Here is what he said in his own words

"Dear Richard,

We attended your Relative Analgesia course in December 2006.
I am writing to say a big thank you to you and your team for making the day so interesting and enjoyable.
I am particularly grateful to you for all your help and advice regarding the installation and set up of the equipment.We gained a great deal of knowledge about Inhalation Sedation and have since started offering Relative Analgesia to our own patients.
We have been using Inhalation Sedation in our practice for 3 months now and have found it a great help to our patients.

Thanks again, we couldn't have dome it without your help!

Yours Faithfully

Rebecca Kilmurray
Clinical Manager

Dr.Ashley Davenport
Practice Owner "

You will find more testimonials from past course delegates by following these links

http://the-ra-coachcoursetestimonials.blogspot.com/

and

http://racoursedelegateupdate.blogspot.com/

Dates of my next Hands-on RA courses

July 28th 2007 in Newbury
October 6th 2007 in Wexford, Rep. of Ireland
December 12th 2007 in Newbury

Moving out of NHS dentistry? – then be different !

Already in Private Practice?- RA is a Practice Builder

These focused training days in

Inhalation Sedation / Relative Analgesia

are designed as team courses for

Dental Practitioners, their dental nurse(s)

and other team members.

You will learn this technique so that you will be confident to

Offer new services to your patient base,

Manage anxious patients, gaggers and much more

Differentiate yourself and your practice

Gain “word of mouth” referrals

Increase practice turnover

Please contact me later in 2007 for venues, formats, course fees and dates.
For a report on my last course in Wexford and course delegates feedback.
please click on the image

St.Mary's House Dental Practice, Newbury website

A patient comments

2007-02-18T16:57:00.001Z

Here is what one of our patients has had to say about his experience with "RA"

".... I would like to see nitrous oxide used in every dental practice, as many people I know have at least some level of dental anxiety. As a businessman I would have thought that this represents a good revenue opportunity for most dental practices as well as a great marketing opportunity to attract more anxious patients. Overall, the combination of nitrous oxide and the professional and kind treatment of Richard and Chris has gone a long way to restoring my faith in the dental profession."

Matt's full story

Saturday 17th Feb 2007

2007-02-01T21:06:00.000Z

LAST CALL FOR PLACES
ON
SATURDAY 17th FEB.2007
HANDS-ON TRAINING DAY

IN RA/INHALATION SEDATION

CALL NOW ON 01635 47757

e-mail here

Richard Charon

Relative Analgesia

2006-12-31T21:20:00.000Z

Relative Analgesia
(Inhalation Sedation)
Courses

Private Dental Practice

Would you like to offer

Inhalation Sedation

as a service to your patients?

Would you like to learn the A-Z

of this very helpful technique?

Would you like me to share 30 years worth of experience

in the successful use of RA with you?

I am a Dental Practitioner, serving Dental Practitioners

in their desire to provide the benefits of Relative Analgesia

(Inhalational Sedation) to their patients.

My One day Hands-on teaching courses are normally delivered from my
Private Dental Practice
at
St. Mary’s House Dental Practice,Newbury

Berkshire SL6 6HF.

During 2007 we have two dates set

for courses in Wexford,

in The Irish Republic

GDPs and dentists in specialist practice

from all over the UK and The Republic of Ireland

have benefitted from attending my

RA Courses since 2003.

The course covers both theory and

Practical Hands-on training in Inhalaton Sedation

and includes

details of all current guidlines
medico-legal aspects
Patient information and
Consent issues

Please use the links below to find out about...

What other dentists say about these courses

Follow-up comments of past course delegates

Patient Testimonials

Case Histories

Bookings are now

being taken for Newbury courses on

Saturday 17th Feb 2007

Saturday 28thJuly 2007
and

New for 2007

Additional training courses are planned for

Wexford,

Republic of Ireland

on May 26th 2007

and

October 6th 2007

e-mail: rwcharon@btinternet.com

Please call 01635 47757 for latest details

or check this site

HANDS-ON RA COURSES IN PRIVATE PRACTICE

Dr.Richard Charon BDS.(VU Manc 1975)

This blog is maintained by
Dr. Richard Charon BDS
of Newbury, Berkshire
GDC Registration No. 49387

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KEEP SCROLLING DOWN TO SEE MUCH MORE.

A WARM WELCOME TO NEWCOMERS,

visiting from ExCel 2006

and if you have been recommended by

RA Medical Services, DPS or SAAD

ALSO TO READERS OF FMC's "PRIVATE DENTISTRY" & "DENTISTRY" PUBLICATIONS,

CHRIS BARROW'S DENTAL BUSINESS SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

AND

VISITORS FROM DSTG as well as those from

Stephen Hudson's excellent resources site for GDPs,

http://www.gdpresources.com/

This site is being continuously developed.

SOME USEFUL LINKS

Thanks to Chris Barrow for the original inspiration to get my RA coaching started

http://www.thebusinesscoachingco.com/

Thanks to Simon Hocken for invaluable hands-on business and personal coaching

http://www.jumpcoaching.com

Thanks to Janet Pickles of RA Medical Services for advice, support and occasional sponsorship

http://www.ramedical.com/

and the winner is ...

2006-06-26T22:26:00.000Z

Firstly many thanks to all who made the effort to fill in and return their questionnaires. The results are collated and being analysed now.

I will let you know if they are worthy of publication, if not, then I will e-mail the findings to you anyway. This may take a few weeks due to summer holidays. At last the prize draw has now been made by Chris Charon this evening. The winner of the prize draw for those who returned their completed RA course questionnaires is
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Dr. M.Jane Brooks of Wimborn in Dorset

who attended my first course,

although she may not have known it at the time !

CONGRATULATIONS!

The bubbly and the book are on their way !

Richard Charon

PRIZE DRAW RESULT

2006-06-13T19:10:00.000Z

As promised the winner of the questionnaire prize draw

will be announced here after the 12th June.

Today is the 13th of June and another

reply was received this morning.

I have decided to allow one more week

for as many replies as possible to be received.

Please call back here next week on

Monday 19th June

for the result of the Prize Draw

Richard Charon BDS

RA Course Questionnaire

2006-05-28T08:30:00.000Z

A questionnaire has now been sent to past participants of the hands-on training courses in Relative Analgesia (Inhalation sedation) run by me, Richard Charon BDS, from my dental practice in Newbury between 2004 and 2006.
Results will appear here by mid July 2006 and are likely to form the basis of an article to be published later in the year in the dental press.
Prize draw results will be found here after June 12th 2006.
For additional comments about my courses sent in by previous course participants on the questionnaire form, please click here

http://the-ra-coachcoursetestimonials.blogspot.com/

2006-05-20T02:24:00.000Z

My thanks go to Chris Barrow and The Dental Business School for featuring my Hands-on RA courses in the latest edition of his e-zine.
Click the link to subscribe and read the article here:
The Dental Business School e-zine

As you will see, I wrote to Chris on a personal basis just to let him know how I was progressing with regards to running these courses and to ask if he would publicise the date of the next course.

He obviously found my story sufficiently "newsworthy" and so asked my permission and those who had sent the testimonials , to run it in its unabridged version.

I Hope you found it interesting, perhaps even inspirational !

Richard Charon

May 6th 2006 RA course Report

2006-05-09T20:50:00.000Z

Our 8th Hands-on Course in Relative Analgesia passed off highly successfully last Saturday ( 6th May 2006). As usual numbers were small which allows plenty of one to one time and a tutorial feel to the day. This was the first time that we could not muster two or three patients to demonstrate via a live video camcorder link to the delegates.

However the delegates did watch a number of pre-recorded cases being treated and this enabled me to discuss the details with them as we watched each case together. Everyone found this very helpful and a perfectly acceptable alternative to live cases.

We also arranged for one of our recent patients to come in and discuss his appreciation of the benefits of Relative Analgesia with the group. He did this with much credit and almost stole the show! He brought a written resume/testimonial which he read out and allowed the delegates to ask any questions they wished. He has given his permission to publish it with a view to encouraging more dentists to take up Relative Analgesia as a service and also to encourage anxious patients.

Click here to read it > Matt's Testimonial

Chris (my wife, practice manager, registered dental nurse and qualified sedation assistant) and I also received two terrific testimonials from the course participants themselves.

Read them by clicking the link

TESTIMONIALS FROM Dr.ANNE O,DONNELL OF WEXFORD, IRELAND AND Dr.DAVID SLANEY OF BECKENHAM,KENT

The dates of the next two Hands-on RA training courses are Saturday 15th July 2006 and
Saturday 18th November 2006

REMEMBER 7 Hours verifiable CPD are available for this course.

Call us on 01635 47757 for more details and an application form.

Next Course

2006-03-15T21:00:00.000Z

BOOKINGS ARE NOW BEING TAKEN FOR

THE NEXT HANDS-ON

RA TRAINING COURSES

IN NEWBURY, BERKSHIRE

SATURDAY 15th JULY 2006

AND

SATURDAY 18th NOVEMBER 2006

8.45am registration for

9.00am - 5 pm.

Restaurant lunch and refreshments included

Course fees

£330 for GDPs,Dental Therapists and Dental Hygienists

£150 for registered Dental Nurses

Please contact us at

rwcharon@btinternet.com

or Call 01635 47757

Welcome to New Visitors

2004-12-03T17:46:00.000Z

A warm welcome to new visitors to

the-ra-coach.com

Click here to e-mail Dr.Richard Charon BDS

Especially if you have arrived here from

December 2004

"Dentistry" Magazine

October 20th 2004, Gloucester BDA Branch meeting

(Many thanks to Dr.Alun Rees for the invitation to speak to this group.)

Also from

The ExCeL Showcase Exhibition

including Frank Taylor of Archer Hayes Consultancy

Chris Strevens of 3dee treatment funding

and all other ExCeL visitors

(probably by way of RA Medical Services Ltd or Blackwell Supplies Ltd)

as well as a welcome to visitors to this site from

The SAAD Conference

held at

The Royal Society of Medicine

Saturday 9th October 2004

including

David Craig and Andrea Wraith of SAAD
Sheldon Collins and Andrew Wickenden, two of the GDP speakers
Janet and Chris Pickles from RA Medical Services Ltd.
Tad Wolujewicz from Blackwell Supplies Ltd

and last but not least, any of

Chris Barrow's Dental Business School

newsletter readers.

Please take the time to look thrrough this site.

Click these links to find

RA Case Histories

RA Patient Testimonials.

Testimonials from my previous RA Course attendees will be found by clicking here.

Hands-on RA Course Testimonials

Please feel free to contact me or post comments

My Logo

2004-10-10T20:08:00.000Z

The RA Coach

2004-10-08T23:28:00.000Z

I am a General Dental Practitioner from Newbury , Berkshire, serving the needs of other GDPs in their desire to improve the level of service to their patients and reduce their own work stress by introducing Relative Analgesia to their dental practices.

The RA-Coach.com Introduction The RA Coach is Dr Richard Charon BDS Click here for over 20 Relative Analgesia case histories

2004-10-05T07:24:00.000Z

This site is devoted to promoting the use of Relative Analgesia more widely amongst General Dental Practitioners for the benefit of their patients, themselves and their practices.

I have no direct link with manufacturing or supply companies. However I believe that RA is underutilised, in general dental practice in the UK and that its benefits are not fully understood by many GDPs especially for adults.

If I could show you how to receive wonderful testimonials from

happy patients like these

Click here to read some of my own patient's testimonials

Would you be interested ?

They really are quite impressive !

Contact me

richard@the-ra-coach.com

In the meantime, why not use the following link to read my article published on

smile-on.com
as a reprint of the original published in 2001.

Click here to see my article published earlier this year on smile-on.com

Also,scroll down for information about my recent

published articles

in " Private Dentistry" magazine

Hands-on RA Course Report 2nd October 2004

2004-10-03T22:20:00.000Z

By Dr. Richard Charon BDS

Dental Practitioner.

Newbury, Berkshire

Here is an update on my activities in running my Hands-on courses teaching interested General Dental Practitioners how to use RA and on "getting published."

For much more information on the format of this "blog" website and many case studies, please take the time to scroll down.

Another highly successful Hands-on R.A. course

Yesterday, Saturday 2nd October, we enjoyed the company of Dr. Elaine Halley and her team from The Cherrybank Dental Spa practice who had flown down from Scotland to participate in my One-day hands-on RA course in Newbury, Berkshire.

Dr. Halley has a most impressive CV and is a leading light in Cosmetic Dentistry in Scotland and runs a highly innovative style of Dental Practice in Perth.

One other practice team had to pull out a few weeks ago, but Dr.Elaine Halley and her team told us how much they had benefited from the 1:1 coaching. So small can be beautiful !

Registration and introductions were due at 8.45 am but they were so keen that they arrived at 8.30am.

Still, my wife Chris Charon and I had arrived at 8.00 am having set up the Audio-visuals the previous evening.

Chris is a qualified Dental Sedation Assistant and manages my dental practice. During the day she was able to give valuable insights to the Cherrybank team of our experiences with treating patients under RA, at our Newbury Dental Practice over the last 15 years.

Here are some of the feedback comments from the Cherrybank Dental Spa team

"Excellent Course. Very relevant to what we needed to know, would recommend this to anyone looking for this type of training. Even the science part was interesting !! Thank you
All the info you e-mailed was very detailed and greatly appreciated - you have obviously worked very hard to put all this together - well done"
"Thoroughly enjoyed the day - very informative and nice relaxed atmosphere"
"Excellent and very well thought out and put together. Cominination of hands-on and live patient demonstrations are an excellent teaching environment. Thank you !"
"Thank you very much the day was great. Great layout of food and great choice of restaurant for lunch. It has been really good and informative. Thanks"
It seems they all found the return journey and overnight stay worthwhile. I look forward to hearing of their progress with introducing RA into their innovative dental practice. Here we all are at the end of the day . Still smiling!

From Left to Right

Chris Charon RDN, practice manager and qualified Dental Sedation Assistant

The Cherrybank Dental Spa Team from Perth

Jillian. Dental Treatment Coordinator

Dental Nurse

Dr. Elaine Halley

Dr. Dr Marion Ivatt

Dr. Richard Charon Course Director

St.Mary's House Dental Practice, Newbury

My Hands-on RA courses qualify for 6 hours of verifiable CPD !

For testimonials from some of our RA Patients, including one from the demonstration patient who kindly assisted us for this October 2004 course click here

RA Patient Testimonials

Articles for publication

2004-10-03T21:01:00.000Z

Further delay in promised publication

At the end of 2003, I was commissioned by Ellis Paul, the Editor-in-Chief of Private Dentistry (PD) magazine to write 2 articles on the use of Relative analgesia (RA) in Private Dental Practice and it's role as a practice builder. The articles were finally published in May and June 2004 by FMC in PD, a subscription only publication. Following further discussions with FMC, they agreed to re-publish both articles, bound as an educational supplement, in "Dentistry" magazine, a broadsheet bi-weekly, which is distributed to all dentists throughout the UK & NI. This was due to appear in the second of the September 2004 issues but it failed to do so. I am currently waiting a reply from Julian English, Executive Editor to confirm October publication.

Another article on R.A.due soon

A review of the Porter-Brown Scavenging Nasal hood system.

RA Medical Services Ltd, based in W. Yorkshire, are suppliers of the equipment used for RA. They have recently commissioned two dentists to undertake a review of the "Porter-Brown" scavenging nasal-hood system, having recently visited the manufacturer's in the United States. The two dentists chosen to review the system were one in the North of England , undertaking NHS Dentistry and one in the South of England in private practice. The latter being yours truly! A description of this system and the articles stemming from the two reviews are due for publication in "Dentistry" magazine in the two October issues. Perhaps my Educational supplement will appear alongside these.

Welcome to "Dentistry" readers

2004-09-07T19:22:00.000Z

Richard Charon BDS (VU Manc.) 1975

A warm welcome to this website goes to visitors who have found their way here from the RA eductional supplement published with September's issue of

Dentistry magazine.

My next Hands-on RA courses will be held in Newbury, Berkshire

Saturday 2nd October 2004

and

Saturday 20th February 2005

This site is in the form of a "blog" or Weblog. If you are not familiar with this format. Here is an explanation.

The "blog" is a log of activities , diary entries or just a simple way of building an informative web-site in a simple format and is built-up sequentially. As you scroll down you will see the entries and dates of entry and also see how the site has developed.

You will find details of my hands-on courses, and testimonials from course attendees. Also there are over twenty case reports detailing clinical successes using Relative Analgesia and patient testimonials as well as other useful links.

Please contact me directly for further information or course details

e-mail: richard@the-ra-coach.com

Relative Analgesia Educ.Supplement NEWSFLASH

2004-08-14T18:42:00.000Z

A N N O U N C E M E N T

I am pleased to announce a successful negotiation with FMC Publications to re-print my two articles on Relative Analgesia . These were first published in the May and June 2004 editions of "Private Dentistry" journal and are now to be published together as an educational supplement in "Dentistry" magazine which has a much larger distribution.

My thanks to Ellis Paul, Julian English and the editorial team at FMC Publications.

The publication date is set for September 2004.

Would you like to learn the techniques for success with

Relative Analgesia ?

My next Hands-on RA course

at my private dental practice

in Newbury, Berkshire

is on

Saturday October 2nd 2004

Dates will soon be announced here for

February and May 2005 courses

Please visit this site again for details by the end of August 2004

Dr,Richard Charon BDS ( V.U.Manc. 1975)

e-mail: richard@the-ra-coach.com

Hands-on RA course- Testimonial

2004-08-13T19:37:00.000Z

Not sure whether my Hands-on

Relative Analgesia Courses are suitable for you ?

Read on for a very helpful testimonial which may help persuade you !

Following my July course

I received the following testimonial

from

Mr. Andrew Tennant BDS.(Hons.), LDSRCS, FDSRCS.

Apsley House Dental Practice in Hemel Hempstead.

Andrew is himself a long-time user of RA. He runs a study club from his practice and is a Pankey Institute member and experienced implantologist. He was one of the course participants on my Hands-on Relative Analgesia course held on Saturday 17th July 2004, in Newbury, Berkshire, at St. Mary’s House Dental Practice.

Here is his unedited testimonial.

“ Richard Charon’s RA course is the best conscious sedation course I have done in 30 years !

The simple and quietly confident presentation of the information kept our group awake all day. We went away having learnt to use the equipment and techniques sufficiently well to use them on Monday morning. Our confidence was built by seeing 2 of the nurses easily sedated and then returning to the group and enthusiastically telling us how easy it was and how good it felt and that our patients should have these benefits. Then we watched 3 live RA sedation cases actually involving treatment with LA and restorative procedures. The patients all came and told us how great they felt, and how easy the treatment was.

Richard has the gift you need as your RA Coach. Just think of all those patients you have who would pay to feel calm and confident about their treatment, and how much more relaxing your day would feel.

Don’t just think how nice having this easy sedation technique would be – go and do it NOW!”

In his covering letter, Andrew also said:

“The balance of the day was right- enough theory to make it a “serious” course, relaxed atmosphere to allow appropriate questions which could be answered then or at the right place in the presentation”

“The presentation had a very professional feel about it…”

His Dental Nurse also commented that she had enjoyed the course and that..

“ it was not over my head, kept me interested and when are you getting it installed…” !

So if I could show you the how, why, when, where and who to use RA for and for you to give your patients and yourself the benefits of this service, would you be interested too?

Dr. Richard Charon BDS

contact me here : richard@the-ra-coach.com

Case history No 22

2004-07-22T19:56:00.000Z

Welcome to www.the-ra-coach.com

This "blog" site is dedicated to raising awareness and creating greater interest in the use of Relative Analgesia amongst GDPs in the UK and in promoting my hands-on RA courses,in a private general dental practice setting.

Please scroll further down for more information,details of my courses, useful links and the other case histories.

Case 22

Early this week I saw a adult male patient with extreme anxiety, verging on a true phobia. I had seen him only once before when he attended with an abscess arising from a previously root-filled LL3 (#33) about 18 months ago. On that occasion we treated him under IV Midazolam and re-treated the tooth, which has been symptomless since.

This time, he arrived, perspiring profusely through fear, though he is otherwise an entirely pleasant chap, he has had a very adverse previous dental experience(s) as a child. His hair and shirt were soaked before he sat in the dental chair !

On this occasion, he was unaccompanied, had a mechanical # of the ML cusp of LR6 ( #46) and had gross supragingival calculus and staining anteriorly. Oh yes , and he was getting married in a few days time!

After all the necessary explanations and duly signing a consent form, we were able to administer RA ( inhalational sedation) there and then, provide a temporary dressing and using an ultrasonic scaler smarten him up for his wedding.
He may well not permit more than this level of treatment without I.V. sedation. This remains to be seen in the future.

This case illustrates nicely, 3 key benefits of Relative Analgesia

It can be used "in an emergency" situation when an escort is unavailable.
In some cases it can be used to allow simple palliative treatment in otherwise fearful patients, pending an IV session at a later date.
That patients who get used to IV as a sedation method, never conquer their fear, since they have little recall of the fact that the dentistry could have been or was pain free.

GDP(UK)

2004-07-18T22:03:00.000Z

A warm welcome if you have just arrived via GDP(UK). The recommendation and link to this site provided by Stephen Hudson today, was entirely unsolicited. Nevertheless, thank you Stephen. Please take the time to scroll down this "blog". I hope you find it interesting, in particular the case studies. More of these will be added very soon , so please log in again to see these.

My hands-on private practice based RA courses provide

7.5 hours of certificated verifiable CPD

This site is regularly updated

Welcome to "The RA Coach.com" from Richard Charon BDS

RA Course for Sat 21st. Jan update

Facial Aesthetics - A New Avenue?

Venue for 21st Jan 2012. Update News

RA course March 2012

Messages from Dental Masters

Follow-up testimonial from Apollonia House

An Interesting day. RA (Inhalation Sedation) course- Apollonia House Nov 26th 20-11

Inhalation Sedation course in Saddleworth. Ready to Roll!

RA course in Januray now full.

With the addition of five dentists from the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia , the January RA course is now full too.

With three from the Republic of Ireland, this will truly be an International gathering!(Though we do have two Spanish dentists working in Aberdeen attending next Saturday in Saddleworth too!)

I am currently planning a course following that in March 2012 in Grantham, then in April which will either be in Newbury or Ireland depending on demand.

"Enough if something from our hands have power to live and act and serve the future hour" Wordsworth

A Guide to Maintaining Professional Standards in Conscious Sedation for Dentistry 2011

A new venue

Inhalation Sedation. Another little success

A new appointment for the Private VT Project

" 3) Defining Competence

RA course on 26th November in Saddleworth- Now Full

Its great to have made a difference

Can I get one of your votes for one of the top 20 Private Dentists Competition?

Brief intial overview report from SAAD conference 24.09.11

SAAD Autumn Conference 2011

CALL FOR RA COURSE RESERVATIONS

July 2011: RA course futher comments

July 2011: RA course report

A positive comment from May 7th 2011

Inhalation Sedation curriculum for DCPs

Feedback comments from May 7th Teaching day

25th Hands-on RA course- Great comments

RADCT

Competency in Inhalation Sedation

RA helps restore faith in Dentist in Newbury

RA course Animoto

Anticipating the Newbury RA course 15th Jan 2011

I am starting to look forward to our next RA course on 15th Jan in Newbury (Thatcham in fact).

It will follow the tried and trusted formula we used last November and have developed over 23 courses since 2003.

Teams will be attending from Winchester, Sutton, Camberley and Galway, yes that is on the on west coast of Ireland. Indeed this team will not the first to come to Newbury from Galway.

Our new trainee dental nurse, Kate, will also attend for a crash course. She has had six months dental nursing experience but only started with us this week, so RA will be new to her.

We will be eight Dentists (maybe nine) and eleven dental nurses.

The teaching day will be held for the 3rd time at Precsion Dental Studio's education suite in Thatcham.

If this is of interest to you or anyone you know , please get in touch.

01635 47757

richard@newburysmilemakers.com

Please also visit www.the-ra-coach.co.uk for more details, testimonials, future dates and course fees.

Testimonial from Dr.Anne O'Donnell from 2006

Today I was looking back at some earlier testimonials for the courses that I run and this once was especially pleasing

Dr. Anne O'Donnell's Testimonia:

Course dates for early 2011

Inhalation Sedation Course November 2010

Read all about it. Todays' Article for Apex

Ruth Lovering, Dental Hygienist's article

Thanks to Ruth Lovering, Dental Hygienist, for her article on the RA course she attended with us in Newbury, in February 2010.

BNI Testimonial

RA course Nebwury Feb 6th 2010

RA Course at The Guidepost Dental Practice. Nr. Morpeth

Meet The RA Coach at the Dental Showcase

The Ultimate Tweet-up for Dentists

Dental Angels Newsletter article

Next Hands-on RA Course 2009

Dr.Ashley Davenport's Testimonial

Welcome to The RA Coach.com

A Warm welcome to GDP(uk) list members from Richard Charon BDS

Thinking about attending one of my RA courses?

A patient comments

Saturday 17th Feb 2007

Relative Analgesia

and the winner is ...

PRIZE DRAW RESULT

RA Course Questionnaire

May 6th 2006 RA course Report

Next Course

Welcome to New Visitors

My Logo

The RA-Coach.com Introduction The RA Coach is Dr Richard Charon BDS Click here for over 20 Relative Analgesia case histories

Hands-on RA Course Report 2nd October 2004

Articles for publication

Welcome to "Dentistry" readers

Relative Analgesia Educ.Supplement NEWSFLASH

With three from the Republic of Ireland, this will truly be an International gathering!
(Though we do have two Spanish dentists working in Aberdeen attending next Saturday in Saddleworth too!)