Decontamination/HTM 01-05

Helping the homeless – a look behind the scenes

As part of a series looking at dentistry in ‘unusual environments’, Emma Buday, dental nurse and practice manager, details her involvement with...

Dental unit water systems – achieving ‘best practice’

Simon Davies considers the apparent omission within HTM 01-05 for water systems in dental practices to be validated annually and explores what action...

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Could you be the Schülke Infection Prevention & Control Practice of 2018?

Register for the 2018 Schülke Infection Prevention & Control Practice of the Year awards.

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What are infections?

A CPD article that investigates the origins of infection and how it spreads and the risks of infectious diseases in day-to-day practice

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Infection prevention and control

The purpose of infection control is to reduce the occurrence of infectious diseases

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Arts & Crafts of Endodontic Nursing

What are the dos and don’ts when decontaminating endodontic instruments and equipment?

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How clean is clean?

A look and the reduction of protein adhesion to dental instruments using a pre-treatment foam with Dentisan’s Technical Director Peter Bacon, who...

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It's all in the mix… the cultural challenges of a dental practice

Continuing Eschmann’s series of articles that look at the daily lives of dental practices from around the world. Here, we get a guide around the...

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Schülke Infection Prevention and Control Practice of the Year 2017

The Schülke Infection Prevention and Control Practice of the Year 2017 – in collaboration with The Dentist and Dental Nursing – is now in its third...

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Dentist kicked off register for exposing patients to infection risk

The General Dental Council (GDC) has removed a dentist from the register of dental professionals for multiple failings involving wide-ranging...

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Thumbs up for dentistry by CQC

The British Dental Association (BDA) has welcomed the latest Care Quality Commission (CQC) State of Care report, which once again shows that dental...