Care pathways standardise how care is provided while ensuring treatment and preventive care are tailored to individual patient needs. They can be used...
Oral health care seems to be separated from other nursing activities and does not appear to be acknowledged when nursing care plans are written, only...
In order to be useful systematic reviews need to include valid randomised control trials. Unfortunately, there is no ‘gold standard’ for measuring the...
Interdental cleaning has been in the news recently, and not all of it made for sparkling reading. Karen Coates, oral health advisor at the British...
It is commonly believed that teething in infants can cause various signs and symptoms. This article reviews the evidence for the various suggested...
Mouth and throat cancers are becoming more common, and members of the dental team should be able to detect the warning signs, refer patients...
Mouth cancer has firmly established itself as a modern day silent killer. Karen Coates, Oral Health Educator for the BDHF, talks about the risk...
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...
Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is characterised by a continuous painful burning sensation in an oral cavity that appears clinically normal. The burning...
This article describes how preventive encounters in dental practice can be most effective if each of the characters involved play their part. It...
Dental decay is the most common preventable childhood disease. Oral health educator for the British Dental Health Foundation, Karen Coates, discusses...
