We are proud to be running our first Forensics course for the Dental Team with Dr Freddie Martin on Saturday 14th of August 2010. The day's course will be held in central London.

On this day we will offer a jam packed exciting day full of interesting 'stuff' about Forensics.  The course will not only enable you to receive 7 verifiable CPD points, but we guarantee you will be learning something new and exciting in Dentistry.

Here is a brief outline of the days events:

Registration 9.00 till 9.30.

9.30 till 12.00 with a break for coffee.

- Its functions, developing into identification & bite marks, covering ageing, sexing, charting problems for the dental team illustrated with a few case studies

- Bite marks in general illustrated with cases with a talk about court presentation & the problems associated..

Lunch

- Child abuse & the dental team. Maybe a couple of cases. How to manage a patient if you spot abuse of any kind.

- mortuary experiences (no visit to an actual mortuary)


A little something about our wonderful speaker!

Freddie was born during world war two. In fact he was born the same day the mighty German Battleship , the Bismark , was sunk .

To mark the occasion his father wanted to call him Bismark on the grounds that when he was grown up and in business , people could greet him by asking: " How’s Bis" ?

Freddie spent a happy adolescence playing poker ,snooker ,and ice hockey in equal measure.

Things then went rapidly downhill and he found himself at Edinburgh University reading dentistry , something of a family tradition. General dental practice followed to pay the mortgage a keep a wife who has ,even to this day , never learned the value of money .

Forensics ran in parallel , and Freddie was happy to switch his white coat for his Barber and Wellies and foray into the realm of blood and guts - a practice which has kept him sane ( some would say ) and staved off the routine and almost statutory national health service heart attack , which caught up with so many of his contemporaries.

It also gave him a taste for vast quantities of Rum & Coke (-----diet coke !)

His interest in forensics started early , and his first case was in 1964.

He took a formal forensic post graduate diploma under his old friend and colleague , the late and great Professor Taffy Cameron at ' The London Hospital '

Freddie is a past president of the British Association For Forensic Odontology, a member of numerous forensic associations , and lectures on forensic odontology to several academic institutions.

He has been involved in much case work over the years, and mass disasters - a year or two back the Tsunami & the London Bombs , the Malawi Air Crash, & more recently, the Farnborough Air Crash & The Ecuador Bus Crash among others.

He has appeared in Coroner’s Courts , Magistrates Courts , County Courts and most of the Crown Courts in the South East over the years, ( and from time to time further afield ), including frequently at ‘The Bailey’.

He has also appeared at the Central Registry Family Division,The Royal Courts of Justice, and The Royal Court in Jersey, ( Care Orders) , and has given evidence in murder cases as far away as St Lucia in the West Indies & The Gambia in Africa.

He has two recurring nightmares , the first is sending a highly paid team of detectives off in the wrong direction through mistaken conclusions following his forensic findings , and much, much more serious , a world shortage of Lambs Navy Rum.

For more details or to book you and your team on this wonderful day out please call Kelly or Michelle on 020 7183 2127 or you can email us on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it