Sir, as a hospital-based dentist I am regularly in receipt of communications from other dentists regarding patients. The majority of these include the referring dentist contact details so that we can correspond with them as required. There is one group, however, who rarely give any such details. These are level 2 surgeons providing MOS services outside the hospital who have seen a patient and decided that an onward referral to secondary care is necessary. I am sure they would never consider sending a professional letter anonymously under normal circumstances, so why make an exception for these onward referrals? May I use the letters page of the Journal to implore all level 2 surgeons to submit their contact details when making such a referral?