Abstract
I am writing in response to the ‘Career pathways’ article in the previous issue of Vital, specifically page 25 and the paragraph titled ‘Armed Forces’. The article refers to ‘dental clerk assistants’. This term is incorrect. Within the Defence Dental Agency, military dental nurses belong to the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force. The correct terminology for military dental nurses is:
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Within the Royal Navy they are Dental Surgery Assistants.
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Within the Army they are Dental Support Specialists.
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Within the Royal Air Force they are Dental Nurses.
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We would like to thank Captain Leighton for this clarification and also his contribution to our feature on military dentistry in this issue, pages 27-30.
Correction
Following correspondence from students on the NVQ Oral Health, Leicester, we wish to apologise for any misunderstanding that may have arisen from a mis-wording in our Spring Letters page. We reported that ‘10 students had completed the course in December 2003’. Kath Payne actually wrote that ‘10 students will complete the course in December 2003’.
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Leighton, P. Military nurses. Vital 1, 4 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/vital102
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/vital102
