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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’.
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.
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.
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.