Sir, a recent audit carried out within the Gwent Community Dental Service regarding medicaments used for pulp treatment in deciduous molar teeth, highlighted a wide variation in medicaments used by the clinicians. The Gold Standard used was the updated guidelines advocated by the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry1 and published in the International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry.2 Reasons for the variation would be lack of awareness of current guidelines which highlight the potential carcinogenic properties of formaldehyde containing medicaments as well as the clinicians' own success and experiences with various medicaments.

We would like to suggest that the BDJ creates a section in the journal where readers are made aware of guidelines that have been formulated or updated recently. We feel that the BDJ with such a wide audience of clinicians within the primary, secondary and tertiary dental sectors can help increase our awareness of guidelines which may only be published in specialist journals or made available on the website of special interest societies.

This can be explored one step further, by the BDA Website Focus Group, and a section on 'Updates' included on the BDA's new website, when it is launched in the future.