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Short notes and step-by-step protocols: restorative work, and what I learn building tools.
Upcoming, 29 Sept: Things I Wish I Knew As a New Grad
Dr Will Shield . Learning on purpose.
GP dentist in Cairns, nine years in. I teach a little, build tools for dentists, and post the cases I'd do differently.
- Associate, Bupa Dental Cairns
- Fellowship in Restorative Dentistry, RIPE Global
- Guest lecturer, JCU final-year dental students
Free tool
ClinicalNote
For any dentist still writing up after the last patient leaves. It's one file that opens in your browser, and nothing you type leaves your machine. Walk out with the notes done.
- Clinical note builder with one-click copy into any PMS
- Referral letter templates for OMFS, Ortho, Endo, Perio and Paeds
- 12 editable prescription templates
- Trauma guidelines viewer
Works offline No login Stays on your machine The short version
Nine years in, and still figuring it out.
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Qualified from James Cook University.
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Private practice, then six years in public dental. A solid foundation, with a narrow scope.
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Associate at Bupa Dental Cairns, five days a week. Check-ups, fillings, crowns, root canals and dentures. Precision-fit crowns and dentures are the cases I enjoy most.
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Fellowship in Restorative Dentistry with RIPE Global. Two years of lectures, workshops and assessed cases, finishing with a full-mouth rehabilitation.
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Guest lecturer to final-year dental students at JCU. The talk I would have wanted in fifth year.
Recent
From the notebook.
- Building ClinicalNote End-of-day notes were my biggest time sink, so I built the tool I actually wanted: one file, on my own machine, that I can change myself.
- My First Implant Restoration, Start to Finish Restoring a single implant start to finish, plus four things I got wrong or didn't know going in.
- Why I built this site A home for the things I write, teach and build, separate from the clinic and made for other dentists.