Ruby Wax helps dental world ‘surf the wave’ of the COVID-19 crisis in hit Update Webinar

Almost 2,500 dental professionals tuned in to her live Update Webinar to learn stress coping mechanisms during the lockdown and beyond.

The free hour-long session was part of the successful Update Webinars programme of events that has been running since COVID-19 forced dentists to close their doors to patients for routine dental care.

Staged in a bid to help dentists and their teams learn the value of mindfulness during times of crisis and panic, the TV entertainer mixed humour with science in an insightful presentation that was sponsored by Align Technology.

During the session, Ruby talked viewers through mind control, demonstrated breathing exercises, and offered tips on how to focus our attention and help halt the panic during this pandemic in an hour-long webinar.

She touched upon how practitioners can maintain a calm presence in the surgery as well as connect compassionately with their teams by practising mindfulness.

Quoting Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of the practice that involves a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, she said: ‘You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf them.’