Volume 4 Issue 3, March 2017

Two dental professionals review Essentials of dental assisting.

Tommy MacGregor, 39, qualified as a dental nurse in 1996 and now works for NHS Education for Scotland (NES) as a DCP tutor and CPD advisor. Tommy has also been an NEBDN examiner and is now an NEBDN Trustee.

Edward Sinclair discusses hand dermatitis and latex allergy among dental workers.

Kirstie Moons qualified as a dental nurse in Cardiff Dental Hospital in 1990 and is now Associate Director for DCP Education within the Wales Deanery at Cardiff University. In 2013 she was appointed to the 12-member body that leads the General Dental Council.

Susan Cameron, 42, is a Senior Dental Nurse with NHS Dumfries and Galloway

Sugar is rarely out of the headlines at the moment, whether it is in reference to the number of children having rotten teeth extracted under general anaesthetic; the quantity of soft drinks consumed by teenagers; or our very British love of cakes to celebrate every occasion. How does our consumption of sugar compare to that of other countries across the world? The following content is taken from the second edition of The Oral Health Atlas published by the FDI World Dental Federation.

Stephen Turner and Margaret Ross conducted a survey of dental hygienists and therapists working in direct access practices in the UK to find out how they were functioning, which treatments were involved, and the barriers they had encountered.