Reference/Features | Extended duties

What’s your role?

Rebecca Waters discusses your professional involvement in pharmaceutical dentistry.

Professionalism/career development

Operation: oral health enhancement

Glenys Bridges considers how best to develop extended dental nursing skills to the benefit of our patients

CPD requirements

One step beyond

How big a step is it to becoming a hands-on clinician? Dr Ian Toibin started his dental career as a dental nurse, moving into dental therapy before qualifying as a dentist. Here, he extols the virtues...

People profiles

‘Dental nurse practitioners’ – what are they?

In an ever-evolving dental world, we hear from Nick Barker on how dental nurse practitioners – at present, an aspirational title – are providing preventative clinical care within dentistry

Training and leadership

Your role in implant care

We take a look an implant education specifically for dental nurses at the ADI Team Congress 2017

Aesthetic dentistry

A dental nurse's role in… direct restorations

You don't have to look too far into Levison, the dental nurse's bible, or Carol Hollins' book to revise what a dental nurse's role is when carrying out restorations, says Christine Macleavy, but…

Oral health and mouth cancer

‘Spiderman for the afternoon’

Dental nurse Kirsty Nutting reveals why first impressions count

People profiles

Community dentistry – it does more than fill in the gaps

Sharon Howe details her role as a dental nurse at the community dental services (CDS-CIC) in Suffolk. She gained her certificate in Special Care Dental Nursing in 2012

Special care dentistry

Dentistry – in all weathers

James Ashton gets some dental advice from specialist registrar Rebecca Willis and dental nurse Kelly Bent..

Mentoring, reflection and PDPs

The dental nurse's role in implant care

Alison Steadward considers the importance of a dental nurse's role in the 21st-century world of dentistry

Impression taking, radiography and photography

Making extended duties a reality

At the Dentistry Show 2016, Glenys Bridges and Alison Steadward hosted ‘How to make extended duties an asset for patient care’ – a Dental Nursing sponsored session within the Dental Nurses Forum....

Extended duties

Changing faces and smiles!

We took five dental nurses at various stages of their career, asked them similar questions in a bid to discover what to expect along the way. They talk to Julie Bissett about their journeys

Aesthetic dentistry