On Thursday 15 September we held our second Health and Wellbeing Lecture.\u00a0 We were honoured to have\u00a0Margie Taylor\u00a0(Chief\u00a0Dental Officer for Scotland)\u00a0be our\u00a0keynote speaker.<\/p>\n
Margie Taylor CBE MSc MBA FDSRCSEd FDSRCPS(Glasg) FFGDP(UK) told how she decided on a career in dentistry having had a terrible fear of the dentist as a young girl and that she was advised to become a librarian as her “handwriting was neat”.\u00a0\u00a0The moral was that all experiences were good, even the bad ones.<\/p>\n
She went onto discuss numerous experiences as a young dentist, citing how social deprivation and modern life impacts on the populations\u00a0oral health and general health.\u00a0\u00a0 This\u00a0led her to complete a business degree and become involved in public health work.\u00a0 Thanks to Margie’s work tooth decay in children has been on the decline since 2004.<\/p>\n
She also answered questions from the audience, some of whom are aspiring dentists.\u00a0 This gave them the opportunity to learn directly from the leading dentist in the country.<\/p>\n
Feedback from parents and pupils was excellent with comments such as “it was inspiring, thank you” and “was very realistic, great speaker.”<\/p>\n
Margie using Twitter account @cdo_scotland tweeting this morning “Thank you for the invitation @stninianshigh a truly inspirational school.”<\/p>\n
We cannot thank Margie enough for this and\u00a0she is always welcome at St Ninian’s High School.<\/p>\n
You can view Margie’s presentation here:<\/p>\n