Children call the shots for a new dental video

The topic of the video is Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF), a technique that helps arrest dental decay.

Laura has just won a grant of £5,460 awarded jointly by the RCS (Eng) Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) and BSPD for her proposal to make a video to help explain the SDF technique to children and their parents.

The video will be made by children who will be recruited to act as filmmakers and presenters and use fun activities to share information on SDF.

The University of Sheffield Dental School began introducing SDF towards the end of 2019. With significant waiting lists for general anaesthetics and very young children needing treatment and suffering toothache, the possibility of applying SDF to arrest caries in primary teeth seemed an attractive option. In some cases, use of SDF avoided the need for a general anaesthetic.