The tenth birthday of the British Lingual Orthodontic Society was appropriately celebrated at a lingual training day.
In May 2003 there were just eight founding orthodontists gathered together and today the Society has more than 150 members. The popularity is not simply confined to orthodontists. This was demonstrated by a gathering of more than 25 orthodontic nurses and therapists for the lingual training day delivered by three BLOS committee members.
Richard George, one of the trainers and the BLOS membership officer, said afterwards: “This inaugural training day was a great success. As someone giving the course, it was great to have such enthusiastic participants and I anticipate BLOS will offer more training for therapists and nurses in the future.”
The day covered everything from types and systems of appliances, to bonding and debonding procedures, archwire selection and ligation systems, debunking some of the lingual myths along the way. It culminated with a typodont session courtesy of the six suppliers supporting the meeting: 3M, db orthodontics, TOC, American Orthodontics, Forestadent and Ormco.
Paul Ward, also a trainer, said the evaluations from the day were excellent and the tutor team look forward to more sessions in the future.