Verifiable CPD written specifically for UK dental technicians — not generic courses written for the surgery. One focused hour each month, with the learning, reflection and evidence you need to keep your CPD moving.
Screw-retained versus cement-retained, analog and digital abutments, and the torque values that belong in the notes.
CPD does not have to become a scramble at the end of a cycle. Bench Hour gives you a simple way to keep learning throughout the year, with one focused session each month and a record of what you've completed.
The learning is written for dental technicians and clinical dental technicians, with topics that reflect laboratory practice alongside the wider areas of professional practice relevant to your registration.
Your completed learning, reflections and certificates stay together in your CPD portfolio, ready for you to review and record as needed.
Structured around the UK dental registrant year running 1 August to 31 July. Complete each issue month by month or access past unlocked modules from your archive.
Emergency protocols, anaphylaxis, and hypoglycaemia on the bench — and the first aid, kits, and records a lab must keep.
Incoming impressions, revised records, and devices — a practical decontamination path that survives an audit.
How sintering, glaze, and cooling actually change strength and shade — and the failures that start in the furnace.
Articulators, dynamic guidance, and why a "high crown" is usually a communication failure, not a milling one.
Intraoral scans, design software thresholds, and where a technician's eye still decides the case.
Scope of practice, raising concerns, and the legal shape of a prescription — written for people who never see the patient.
Photography, mixed lighting, and a vocabulary that stops "make it warmer" coming back as a remake.
Screw-retained versus cement-retained, analog and digital abutments, and the torque values that belong in the notes.
A monthly hour on removable appliances, retainers, and the material interfaces that fail in the mouth, not on the model.
What a technician can see in a model, a photograph, or a conversation — and the duty that follows.
When a restoration comes back: the ticket, photographs, and lot numbers on the case. How to keep them.
A GDC highly recommended subject, taught for people who read films and CBCT slices to design — not to expose.
Monthly, annual, or 5-year cycle pass. One hour is reserved for you every month — no hunt for a last-minute course.
Sixty minutes, technician-specific, with clear learning outcomes and GDC development outcomes A–D.
Download it, save it, and copy the hours straight into MyGDC. You remain responsible for submission.
Subscribe as an individual registrant, or register your whole lab, giving each member their own logins, and having a lab admin dashboard to support your technicians.
Immediate access to the current month’s module and verifiable certificate.