Live patient based learning · London
Better skills.
Better decisions.
Better dentistry.
Hands-on workshops and full-day immersive courses for general dental practitioners — taught live, on real patients, in a working London practice. Then built into yours.
Next course · Six places
Cracked Teeth — Scan. Shape. Seal.
From root to crown in a single visit. A live patient demonstration, and how to build it into your practice.
Date
Saturday 17 October 2026
09:00 – 17:00 · Sardinia House, Holborn
Investment
£795 early bird
£895 after 2 October · 8 hrs verifiable CPD
The Academy
Education built the way we practise: live, collaborative, and honest about what it takes.
Building Better is the education arm of a three-practice London group. Every course is delivered from the chair-side of a working practice — with the microscope feed, the CEREC design screen and the intra-oral cameras on the big screen — so you see the whole workflow exactly as it happens, not a version of it on slides.
01
Live patient, not lecture theatre
Real cases, real decisions, in real time. You watch the full protocol step by step and can ask about every choice as it's made.
02
Six delegates, by design
Small cohorts are a feature, not a constraint. There's room at the chair, time for your questions, and a genuine case discussion rather than a Q&A queue.
03
Beyond the chair
Every day ends with the practice perspective: the systems, the chair-time economics and the patient journey that make a technique work on a Tuesday afternoon.
How we teach
Watch it. Understand it. Take it home.
Morning
Watch it live
A full clinical protocol on a real patient, from assessment and planning through to the definitive restoration — with the reasoning narrated as it happens.
Afternoon
Understand the system
What the morning means for your team, your diary and your patients: workflows, protocols, equipment return and the efficiencies that follow.
After the day
Build it into practice
You leave with the protocol, the materials list and a clear picture of what to change on Monday. For practices that want more, in-practice implementation is next on the ladder.
The Restorative Architects
Two specialisms, one workflow.
Building Better was founded by a restorative dentist and a root canal expert who treat the same teeth, in the same room, on the same day. The courses grew out of the way they work together.
Dr Amit Patel
BDS MSc · Restorative & Aesthetic Dentistry
Co-founder
Principal of a London DSO, Dentsply Sirona Key Opinion Leader and industry speaker on digital workflow and business consultancy. Over 17 years in practice, growing from one site to multiple locations while delivering collaborative dentistry with a team of highly skilled clinicians.
@londoncitydentist
Dr Spencer Richman
BDS MSc · Endodontics
Co-founder
Dentsply Sirona Key Opinion Leader and co-founder of Building Better. Over ten years of dedicated endodontic practice in and around London, with more than 7,000 procedures to date. Through his involvement in education, he has provided teaching and mentorship to many clinicians.
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Courses
A ladder, not a one-off.
Start with a live observation day. Go further with hands-on work. Bring us into your practice when you're ready to make it routine.
Live patient day
Cracked Teeth — Scan. Shape. Seal.
Same-day root to crown on a live patient, then the practice perspective. Saturday 17 October 2026, Sardinia House. Six places.
Hands-on
Hands-on workshops
Practical days across digital dentistry, restorative and endodontics. More dates to be announced — register your interest and we'll let you know first.
In practice
In-practice implementation
We come to you: protocols, team training and the workflow set up in your own surgery, with your own equipment and your own team.
Six places. Book early.
Ready to build better?
Book the Cracked Teeth live patient day, or get in touch to talk about in-practice training for your team.
In practice
Request a consultation
Tell us about your practice and what you'd like to achieve. We'll arrange a no-obligation call to talk through in-practice implementation for your team.
We'll be in touch within two working days. Please don't include any patient information.
Hands-on
Register your interest
Small-group hands-on workshops are coming. Leave your details and you'll be first to hear dates — before they're announced publicly.
We'll only use your details to tell you about Building Better workshops. Please don't include any patient information.