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Volume 6 Issue 1, December 2008

Ed's Letter

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Star Letter

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Letter

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Book Review

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News

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Diary

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Feature

  • 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’.

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  • Jack Mirza and Guy Robertson outline the origin of dental implants and how they are used today, with case studies and treatment protocols.

    • Jack Mirza
    • Guy Robertson
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  • Dr Richard Cure and Professor Robert Ireland discuss the benefits of including dental practice managers and receptionists in dental team training.

    • Richard Cure
    • Robert Ireland
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  • Hygiene and therapy student Sarah Brett conducted a local study of GDP opinion on DCPs and their current and future remits.

    • Sarah Brett
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  • …with carefully formulated toothpaste, says Ann Generlich, PR and Marketing Director for Purity Laboratories.

    • Ann Generlich
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  • Training in NLP can provide you with the tools to effectively develop a rapport with your patients. Lynne Rees explains.

    • Lynne Rees
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  • Dental nurse and Clinical IT Coordinator Wendy Leach* explains how to make full use of information technology in your dental practice.

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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.

    • Fiona Ryan
    • Monika Cedro
    • Joseph Noar
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Advice

  • Fiona Ord and Pauline Watt highlight the existing knowledge of a fatal disease and its possible association with dental treatment.

    • Fiona Ord
    • Pauline Watt
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  • Dental hygienist Alison Lowe explains the finer details of radiography use in dental practice.

    • Alison Lowe
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Get Active

  • How is your relationship with stress? Can you feel your blood pressure rising the minute you walk into work? Let Dean Hodgkin show you how to take some time out.

    • Dean Hodgkin
    Get Active
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Marketplace

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Puzzle Page

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Last Word

  • Probably one of the most frequent, negative comments that patients make about going to the dentist is the noise – usually of the ‘the drill’ – so what can we do to help out? Stephen Hancocks investigates.

    Last Word
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