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Empowering patients

What is the key to supporting patients at home?

Pain management

Centring on communication

Nina Garlo speaks with Reima Saarinen on how motivational interviewing can serve as a valuable tool.

Training and leadership

Facing the challenges

Nina Garlo offers a guide for oral health professionals on aiding patient’s mental health.

Oral health and mouth cancer

Paying attention

Hannah Burrow discusses the myths and misconceptions around patient education.

Patient education

Texting triumph

Mark Garner emphasises the use of text messaging in keeping patients connected.

Patient education

What’s the relationship?

Hannah Burrow explores the relationship between dental and mental health.

Workplace issues/your health

It all starts with the patient

Hannah Burrow outlines the importance of patient participation.

Workplace issues/your health

Making leaps in oral health

Dental Nursing speaks with hurdler Annimari Korte about her passion for oral health in the athletic arena.

Leadership/team working

Going cold turkey

Julia Svec explains why bruxism is a habit patients need to get out of.

Special care dentistry

Love in practice

Sarah Buxton discusses the implications of intra-practice romance.

Patient education

Say cheese!

How cosmetic dentistry can give patients the smile they’ve always wanted.

Patient education

You give me (Hay) fever

Charlotte Wake breaks down the misery that is Hay fever.

Patient education