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The last British Dental Journal article on child protection was in 1986. Since then there have been major changes in both legislation and approaches to child protection. A local authority child protection specialist and a consultant in paediatric dentistry outline the development of child protection and the dental practitioner's role in the inter-agency child protection system in this, the first of three inter-related articles
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Murphy, J., Welbury, R. The dental practitioner's role in protecting children from abuse. 1. The child protection system. Br Dent J 184, 7–10 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.4809528
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