Support for the NVQ

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This is your page to write to and open up topics for debate, reply to each other and offer advice. One letter we have for this issue calls for more therapists to be trained instead of more dentists. What are your thoughts and contributions? Letters can be about your profession only or about working in dentistry in general.

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I have just read the star letter in regards to Dental Nurses and the NVQ. This is a great opportunity for dental nurses to have a recognised qualification and not just treated as assistant to the dentist. I am fed up to the back teeth (excuse the pun) of being called this after all a dentist could not survive without us!

I have been a dental nurse for 6 years now and am now training for my A1 award in assessing and cannot wait to get out there and help guide candidates in the right way of dental nursing.

Yes it is going to take time to get this NVQ off the ground but we must keep pushing for it as it is defiantly the right path for dental nursing to take.

Vital responds:

Many thanks to Jane for her letter, she will be interested in the article on becoming an NVQ assessor on page 24.

Send your letters to: the Editor, Vital Magazine, BDJ, Nature Publishing Group, 4-6 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW or email vitaleditorial@nature.com. Authors must sign the letter, which may be edited for reasons of space.

Our star letter writer will receive a Sonnet Black Laque fountain pen (£90 RRP) courtesy of Parker Pens.