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Dr Keith Doonan In the lead-up to his CPD course in September, we caught up with the entertaining Dr Keith Doonan.
As a graduate of the Australian Performing Arts Conservatory, it’s little wonder Dr Keith Doonan is as entertaining as he is skilled at presenting. “I just look attendees in the eyes, so they feel too intimated to fall asleep,” he jokes, when asked how he keeps attendees engaged. “Doing a simple thing like greeting people individually at the start of the lecture can change the whole dynamic of the day. It surprises me how many people come up at the end of the lecture and say, ‘That’s the first lecture I have not fallen asleep in’." Keith may be a talented actor, performer and amateur magician, but he is a skilled implant dentist, first and foremost. He was encouraged to pursue a dental career by his mother, who steered him towards the profession at just five years’ old. Keith will be presenting Dealing with Implant Failures in September. The course will cover: • • • • • • • • •
Risk analysis and when to say no Most common failures Planning to prevent failure Communications with the laboratory Zirconia and why it fails Peri-implantitis Occlusal overload and late failure Recovering from failed implants Removing failed implants
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“Attendees can expect to see real-life problems and practical solutions to common problems,” Keith says. “They will get an understanding of where things can go wrong, and we look at the psychology of decision making and unconscious incompetence.” Keith says understanding authority gradient is also an important aspect to avoid problems.
In dentistry, to avoid problems, you need to include your team and give them a little bit of responsibility. “(For example) in a team, you have a surgeon in charge, then you might have two or three people around him who aren’t as qualified, but they still know what’s going on,” he explains. “The surgeon is really clever, and he knows how to cut a leg off. Everyone around him doesn’t know how to do that, but they know he’s cutting the wrong leg off … yet they don’t say anything. “In dentistry, to avoid problems, you need to include your team and give them a little bit of responsibility. Encourage them to speak up whenever they think something is not quite right.”
