Tue 24 February 2026 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Greater Dandenong Group Meeting: "Do You See What I See?"
Eye-tracking technology is an innovative research to uncover how different people experience the dental environment. Do children notice what clinicians assume they do? Do parents fo-cus on the same things as their child? What do dental students and allied health professionals attend to, and how does this dif-fer from experienced clinicians?
By mapping eye movements in real time, this research shows that each group “sees” the clinic differently. These insights are reshaping our understanding of anxiety, communication, and clinical decision-making in paediatric dentistry, providing a new window into how patients and practitioners perceive the same moment in entirely different ways.
Cost: $125 per person (inclusive of dinner)
CPD hours: 1 clinical hour
Presented by Dr Vanessa Cho
Registration
To register, RSVP via email to Kellie Jose at [email protected]
Schedule
Speakers
Dr Vanessa Cho
Dr Vanessa Cho is a Specialist Paediatric Dentist currently practising at the Royal Dental Hospital of Victoria and in private practice, and serves as a Senior Lecturer at the UWA Dental School. She completed her Bachelor of Dental Science, Doctor of Clinical Dentistry, and PhD—receiving an Honourable Mention on the Dean’s List—at the University of Western Australia.
During her doctoral research, Dr Cho collaborated with several world renowned
institutions on projects utilising eye-tracking technology, including her most recent work undertaken as a Fulbright Scholar. She has been recognised with multiple prestigious awards, such as the IAPD Bengt Magnusson Award in Child Dental Health, the AAPD Inaugural Research Prize, and accolades from the Australian Dental Association and the Pierre Fauchard Academy as a Young Emerging Lecturer. Following the completion of her PhD, Dr Cho worked at Harvard/ Boston Children’s Hospital before returning to Australia. Her research interests include eye-tracking in dentistry, cariology, disease prevention, child behaviour, and dental anxiety.
