What are mouth ulcers? How are they identified and what advice should patients be given? Ulcers are uncomfortable, have a number of causes and may be a sign of an underlying condition. They also give...
The use of in-surgery bleaching techniques has increased recently within the profession following the introduction of various new systems.
Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is characterised by a continuous painful burning sensation in an oral cavity that appears clinically normal. The burning sensation may affect more than one oral site with...
Healthcare staff with a high occupational exposure to latex gloves, such as dental care professionals, have a higher than average incidence of latex allergies. Aleks Kinay outlines the types of...
Impacted teeth have several causes and can lead to problems if left untreated. Their management includes extraction, long-term orthodontic treatment or monitoring for problems, and depends on both...
In today's modern era, patients expect easy and instantaneous methods of booking a dental appointment. The days of waiting on the telephone to speak to the receptionist are becoming a thing of the...
It is often said that, ‘Failing to plan is planning to fail.’ Business planning in a dental practice is important. Without sound analysis, clear projections, and well-thought out contingencies,...
Missed dental appointments waste staff time, increase time spent waiting for appointments, incur financial costs and damage dental health. This article looks at what causes patients to miss...
Sleep apnoea can lead to feeling excessively tired during the day and poses a risk to health. The condition can be managed, however, with the use of intra-oral devices. The aim of this article,...
This article describes how preventive encounters in dental practice can be most effective if each of the characters involved play their part. It describes the attitudes, knowledge and skills that an...
We all work in a dental organisation of some sort, some big and some small, and it is a fact of life that when people work together, there will be conflict from time to time. This article explains how...
Dental fear is considered to be one of the most frequent problems in paediatric dentistry.
Dental care professionals and patients need their eyes protected against body fluids, chemicals, fragments of objects and other substances. Different types of eye protection are available, and...
Dental decay is the most common preventable childhood disease. Oral health educator for the British Dental Health Foundation, Karen Coates, discusses the importance of establishing good oral health...
Dental nurses must be able to select and appraise literature that is relevant to their field, and understand the implications of research findings. In this article, Maggie Nash provides a brief...
