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The Brush UpFresh-Out Fridays: Meet Haydyn BathurstRemember that first time you drove alone on your red P plates? That mix of freedom and sheer terror? That's exactly how Haydyn Bathurst describes his first days treating patients without a tutor looking over his shoulder.This is Fresh-Out Fridays, where we sit down with early-career dentists who share the unfiltered truth about navigating those early-career moments that dental school didn't quite prepare you for. In this episode, we're catching up with Dr Haydyn Bathurst as he opens up about choosing the public pathway, juggling contract reviews during final exams, and learning to communicate with patients...
2025-10-3117 minThe Brush UpFresh-Out Fridays: Meet Haydyn BathurstRemember that first time you drove alone on your red P plates? That mix of freedom and sheer terror? That's exactly how Haydyn Bathurst describes his first days treating patients without a tutor looking over his shoulder.This is Fresh-Out Fridays, where we sit down with early-career dentists who share the unfiltered truth about navigating those early-career moments that dental school didn't quite prepare you for. In this episode, we're catching up with Dr Haydyn Bathurst as he opens up about choosing the public pathway, juggling contract reviews during final exams, and learning to communicate with patients...
2025-10-3117 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastFeature #97 – Communication: Confident and ethical patient interaction with Dr Peter Dayman
Hosted by Dr Haydyn Bathurst
Welcome back Dental Head Start Listeners to todays episode on communication. With me in this episode is Dr Peter Dayman. I reached out to Dr Dayman after listening to his interview on ABC Nightlife with Phillipclarke. A lot of us may be too young to be listening to ABC radio, but it was my parents that had listened to Dr Dayman’s episodes on the ABC, in which he handles all sorts of curveball questions from the audience and makes it look easy how well he is able to explain the ways in...
2025-03-0731 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTip #145 – Aging teeth and its implications for dental restorations with Dr Arosha Weerakoon
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Dr Haydyn Bathurst
You may not realise it but as we get older, so too do our teeth. Not only is there increased wear and tear on the outside of teeth which may seem obvious, there is also morphological changes on the inside of te...
2025-02-2700 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastFeature #96 – Embracing Lifelong Learning: An Interview with Dentist, Researcher, and Educator – Dr. Arosha Weekaroon
Hosted by Dr Haydyn Bathurst
Hello Dental Head Start listeners, welcome back to our feature series! Today’s guest is Dr Arosha Weerakoon. Dr Arosha wears many hats in the dental industry, a practice owner of Tewantin family dental, a lecturer at the University of Queensland where she also obtained her pHD in Dentine, Adhesive Interfaces & Physiological Ageing. This is only just scratching the surface and how I met Arosha was that as some listeners may know she is a fellow Colgate Advocate for Oral Health.
In this episode we follow Arosha’s journey of bein...
2024-11-2125 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastDiscoveries in Dental Focus #1 – Digital Dentures
Welcome to the Discoveries in Dental focus series. This series highlights recent dental discoveries and saves you time having to read through numerous journal articles.
Hosted by Dr Haydyn Bathurst
In this pilot episode, we are going to be exploring the concept of digital dentures, 3d printed dentures, and, by extension, CADCAM dentures. So the theory goes that because we now have the technology of scanners, CADCAM machines, and 3d printers. We can just get the dentures straight away without most of the conventional means. From what I hear most digital denture users, and in...
2024-06-2811 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #135 – Endodontic Radiography: How to catch that apex! with A/Prof William Ha
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
In dental school, taking PAs in endodontics has been incredibly fiddly. It really puts patients through the ringer trying to catch that apex when you missed it the first time. How should we be taking PAs, how many should we be taking, ca...
2023-11-1537 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #133 – Mythbusting in Rotary with A/Prof William Ha
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
A lot of dental students that are about to graduate haven’t gotten much experience with rotary endodontics. With us here to bust many myths regarding rotary is Associate Professor Ha of the University of Sydney, a specialist endodontist and co-founder of the...
2023-09-1341 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #129 – Antibiotic Resistance in Dental Health with Dr Leanne Teoh
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
We are all briefly aware of antibiotic resistance being a global phenomenon however as we know in the space of dentistry we have the responsibility to know when to prescribe them appropriately. It can be really blurry at times and to help me...
2023-07-2620 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #126 – The State of Saliva with Dr Samantha Byrne
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
Saliva… or rather spit! We’re told it’s important to test saliva at school but does knowledge about the patients saliva change the way the patient is treated? What can findings in our saliva cultures tell us about diseases such as Alzheime...
2023-06-0719 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #124 – What is AI Machine Learning and its Future in Dentistry? with Dr Hanna Pethani
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
All this talk of AI machine learning, but what does this mean for dentistry? Am I going to be able to plug in a bitewing radiograph and the computer can tell me where the caries is for me? Join Dr Pethani and Ha...
2023-05-1721 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #123 – The Pigmented Lesion with Dr Michelle Kang
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
From learning all things oral pathology in school we learn to memorise specific pictures in textbooks that we spot in exams and go ‘Yes! I’ve seen this pathology before!’ however when it comes to actually seeing oral pathologies in the mouth, particul...
2023-04-2623 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #121 – The Who What When Where of the ADSA with Sanika Shorey
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
For those in dental school right now you may be familiar or unfamiliar with who ADSA are, what things they run and what they stand for. Throughout the lockdown period in 2020 and 2021, a lot of us dental and oral health students have mi...
2023-04-1219 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #120 – AI: What is Natural Language Processing and Its Future in Dentistry? with Dr Hanna Pethani
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
It’s all the office talk at the moment. Is ChatGPT going to take my job as a dentist??? In the face of technological advancement, there are both the negative naysayers and the blind believers… where does that leave you?
I pond...
2023-04-0516 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #119 – What is IBD and Its Role With the Mouth with Dr Michelle Kang
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
When we sign up to become dentists and study the art of teeth, we learn things like head and neck anatomy, prosthodontics in understanding the shape and contour of teeth, and orthodontics in where the teeth should sit in relation to the fa...
2023-03-2922 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #117 – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Oral Environment with Dr Samantha Byrne
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
In dentistry we learn lots about how bacteria is the cause of all our problems, from dental caries, gingivitis, pulp necrosis and periapical lesions, are all bacteria bad for us? To discuss this question I’ve brought on Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Univ...
2023-03-1521 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #116 – How to Shine Bright in Your Early Years of Dental School – with Sanika Shorey
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
In today’s episode is an interview with the current president of the Australian Dental Student Association Sanika Shorey. We talk about what to expect out of your first year! Really because all dental schools are different we’re more focusing on your o...
2023-03-1225 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #115 – That OHT Clean Feeling! with William Carlson-Jones
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
‘Why can’t you get that stubborn piece of calculus off? In this WIWIK we bring back CJ to ask how to get that OHT clean feeling along with advice on proper periodontal charting and handling of children with a clean. Stay tuned...
2023-03-0125 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastFEATURE #80 – The Big Wide World of Oral Medicine with Dr Michelle Kang
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
In this month’s feature episode we ask Oral Medicine Specialist Dr Michelle Kang about her journey and experience through the big wide world of oral medicine. Topics discussed include the variation in city and rural cases, the experience of travelling and the importance of a good support network to help you through tough times. Please sit back and enjoy!
Dr Michelle Kang
Dr Michelle Kang is a board registered Oral Medicine Specialist. Her current roles include: Staff Specialist at Sydney Dental Hospital, Visiting Dental Specialist for Hunter New Engl...
2023-02-2638 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastTIP #112 – The Broadening Scope of the OHT with William Carlson-Jones
Welcome to What I Wish I Knew by Dental Head Start. This is a podcast where we learn from people that have been there, made the mistakes, learnt the lessons and have developed into the accomplished dental professionals they are today.
It’s your weekly mentoring session.
Hosted by Haydyn Bathurst
In the ever evolving field of dentistry the role of the oral health therapist has morphed and changed. Different age ranges different types of treatment and all varied across different states. This gets pretty confusing. With me here today is the Vice Pr...
2023-02-0919 min
The Dental Head Start PodcastFEATURE #79 – A Journey in Confidence with Dr Erica Hwin & Haydyn Bathurst
Happy New Year to our Dental Head Start family! To kick 2023 off, we wanted to touch base and share the big plans we have in store for you on The Dental Head Start Podcast.
Firstly, we’d like to welcome our superstar editor Haydyn Bathurst to the microphone for his official debut as our new student host! Haydyn has been a huge asset to the team and we’re excited to share his perspectives and advocacy for all the dental students out there.
With her shiny AHPRA registration in hand, Erica is now a new gradua...
2023-01-2954 min