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Heather Pope is Clinical Director for Dental Services, East Cheshire NHS Trust and a specialist in special care dentistry, based in Crewe. Heather is also a member of the BDA's Salaried Dentists Committee and its representative on the Advisory Committee for Community Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons (England). Ruth Doherty, BDJ Managing Editor, caught up with Heather at the BDA Conference in Manchester last year to find out more about the challenges faced in special care dentistry.
There's no escaping the escalating rates of head and neck cancers we've seen over the last decade, and that will inevitably lead to an expansion in the role of the dental professional over time. David Westgarth speaks to Professor Simon Rogers at Aintree University Hospital about what it takes to succeed as an oral and maxilliofacial surgeon.