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Pneumonia and dental care

In the UK, between 0.5-1% of adults contract pneumonia, most often in the autumn and winter months. But what does it have to do with your role as a dental nurse?

Look to the future

If you type ‘How has dentistry changed in the last 10 years?’ into your ...

Enter our Aura IPC Awards 2020 today!

Dental Nursing, The Dentist and Dental Update are proud to announce the launch ...

Rethinking hand hygiene

Rebecca Waters considers the new evidence behind infection control

The secrets of our success

How our IP&C award-winning practice team, Rock Dental, 'bring to life' ...

Protect your hands: protect your health

Rebecca Waters considers this cornerstone of clinical practice essential for ...

Infection control in implant dentistry

Senior dental nurse, Jenny Jones, explains how the two dental nurse approach ...

Deal or no deal

Whatever the outcome of Brexit, Bob Newsome, Managing Director at infection ...

Planning decontamination in the dental practice

Ambassador for the Society of British Dental Nurses, Clare Faulkner considers ...

Just how clean are you?

Louise Smith talks us through best handpiece decontamination

Waste: what you need to know

There are a number of hazardous dental wastes that, when improperly disposed, ...

Pioneering Scottish dentist recommends course

Pioneering Scottish dentist

An innovative dental decontamination course has received the thumbs up from a leading dentist with more than two decades of experience

Creating experts

Yiannis Kotoulas reviews the Aura dental decontamination course

Continual innovation and constant compliance

Continual innovation

Mum's the word! The club that is designed to encourage award-winning infection control protocols

Food for thought

Kate Scheer considers the importance of applying best practice at home and abroad to prevent cross contamination

Dentistry on the move

Anna Cowdin is co-owner and dentist at Nomad Dental, a forward-thinking company that involves transporting a mobile dental practice between multiple locations to provide accessible care

Preventing the spread of contagious diseases

Preventing the spread

Peter Bacon, technical director at Dentisan, teaches readers about the challenges of combatting the most contagious infectious diseases in the dental practice

Infection control: a close up look at award-winning ways

Cwmbran Dental Care was named our Infection Prevention and Control Practice of the Year for 2018. Here, dental nurse Justine Nuzzo and co-principal and infection control lead Ruth Collis share their practice protocols

The power of pre-treatment formulations

The power

Peter Bacon reports on a study proving the positive effect of pre-treatment formulations on re-usable surgical instruments by reducing residual protein before steam sterilisation