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Focus on deaneries

Discover your deanery pp14 - 15

Just who is your local deanery? What do they do? How can you contact them? Kathryn Marshall, DCP Tutor for Kent, Surrey & Sussex Deanery, offers some advice.


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Reviews

CD review p16

Special Care Dentistry: an interactive learning programme for the dental team. Produced by J. Fiske MBE and R. Davies. Smile-on Ltd .Copies of the CD can be obtained from Smile-on Ltd on 020 7400 8989, or email e-mail: info@smile-on.com. There is a small charge of £25 + VAT for further copies.


Book Reviews

Book review p17

Basic guide to dental instruments. C. Scheller. Blackwell Munksgaard. £19.99 ISBN: 1405133791



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Vital guide

Vital guide to Adhesive dentistry pp21 - 24

Christopher Lynch

Welcome to the fourth article in the Vital Guide Series. At the end of the article are some CPD questions, which are designed to get you thinking about the article and to help you remember some of the key points. Here, Christopher Lynch explains contemporary adhesive dental techniques and their application.


Interview

Heralding a hygienic future pp28 - 29

Do dental hygienists get the recognition they deserve within the dental industry? Arveen Bajaj spoke to new BDHA President Michael Wheeler.


Australian therapy

What is a toothbrush? Dental therapy in the Northern Territory pp30 - 32

Performing extractions under a tree, explaining what a toothbrush is, rescuing an accident victim in the middle of nowhere ... it's all in a day's work for Australian dental therapist Debbie Beldham. By Kate Craig


Technician Survey

Professional development for dental technicians pp33 - 36

Will dental technicians welcome new CPD legislation with open arms? Drs Michael Reeson and Nicholas Jepson set out to investigate. Adapted from a BDJ article1 by Rowena Milan.


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Advice

So what happens now? pp37 - 38

Leo Briggs, the Dental Defence Union's dento-legal adviser, offers a helping hand to newly-registered DCPs.


Cover feature

Accessible to all: removing barriers to good oral health pp39 - 41

Are you confident in your approach to every patient who enters the surgery? Let Associate Specialist Janet Griffiths introduce you to Special Care Dentistry.


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On Your Feet

Hop, skip and click p43

Do you fancy being a dab hand at downloading from your digital? Then strike a pose, please, for Julie Ferry.


Retro recipes pp44 - 45

Out of the archive and into the oven... Kate Maynard found some inspiring recipes in an unlikely place.


Best foot forward p46

Team sports, ball skills, lycra shorts and gym subscriptions not on your agenda? Then discover the benefits of walking. Arveen Bajaj stretches her legs.


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In the bleak mid water p52

As we plunge headlong into the darker days of winter there are not just the long evenings to contend with but also the change in the weather. In the practice that means raincoats for example, and hats, and boots and ... umbrellas... Stephen Hancocks dodges the drips.


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