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Fiona Ryan, Monika Cedro, Sona Pabari, Lucy Davenport-Jones and Joseph Noar describe a study they carried out to test clinicians' knowledge and practice of data protection legislation and information management.
It was opened when Macmillan was prime minister and national service was still in force and closed 23 years later as a result of Government and BDA opposition. But the spirit and values of the UK's first school for dental therapists live on. Joanna Lyall attended a reunion of the New Cross ‘girls’.
Boasting over 400 friends and his own group on Facebook, Ali Parker knows how to have a good time. But why does the self-confessed ‘oral surgery boy’ love dental nursing? asked Kate Maynard.
Dental nurse Nicola George works alongside an implantologist. Here she tells us what her job involves and the impact implants can have on a patient's life.