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Q2 2022
In this issue:
- Call log
- Practice management: Dressing the part
- Advice: Who needs a mentor?
- Practice matters: Keep complaint records separate
- Tackling the backlog
- Conflict with colleagues – nipping issues in the bud
- Responding to online practice criticism
- Pitfalls in composite bonding
- No man’s land - the pioneering women of WW1
- Case study: Slow healing socket
- Dental case study: Adverse comment
- Dental case study: Dental insurance cover
- Dilemma: Covert recording made public
- Ethics: Lessons learned - ethical and educational
- Book choice: Recovery – The Lost Art of Convalescence
- Vignette: Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)
Q1 2022
In this issue:
- Call log
- Practice management: Menopause and the workplace
- Advice: Snakes and ladders – the path to success
- Risk: Disclosure of dental patient records
- Coping with Covid – the top 6 challenges
- Referrals - who, why, when, how?
- Resilient practice – addressing human factors
- Pitfalls in short-term orthodontics
- Dental case study: Antibiotic cover
- Dental case study: Alleged wrong extraction
- Ethics: On broken teapots and “holding” to account
- Book choice: Many different kinds of love - A story of life, death and the NHS
- Vignette: Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)
Q4 2021
In this issue:
- Wellbeing: Introducing YourHalo
- Call log
- Employment law: Sexual harassment in the workplace
- Risk: What's up with WhatsApp
- Advice: Know your patient – tips to avoid complaints
- Complaints handling: Proactive response to patient complaints
- Lowering the temperature in hostile patient encounters
- Breaking up is hard to do
- Finding PPE that's fit for all
- Case study: Beyond what's reasonable
- Case study: Lip trauma
- Case study: Emergency backlog
- Legal: Being a competent expert witness
- Ethics: "Please not another toolkit": on meeting ethical distress
- Book choice: The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Vignette: Pat O'Callaghan (1906-1991)
Q3 2021
In this issue:
- Call log
- Practice matters: Respecting religious practice
- Spending your time wisely
- MDDUS protects you, protects your business
- Risk: Working without professional registration
- Parental responsibility - getting it right
- Profile - On the inside: Covid-19
- Human factors: Civility saves lives
- Reflective practice: Improving self awareness to reduce risk
- Clinical risk reduction: Identifying oral cancer
- Case study: NHS treatment costs
- Case study: Treatment abroad
- Case study: Pinpoint fistula
- Ethics: On hypocrisy
- Book choice: The Doctor Who Fooled the World
- Vignette: Lilian Lindsay (1871-1960)
Q2 2021
In this issue:
- Call log
- Practice matters: Staff refusing Covid-19 vaccination
- Talking about money. Honestly.
- Professionalism: Social media risks
- Risk: Treating colleagues
- DISCover how to transform your communication
- THINGS DENTISTS SAY: “I don’t know…”
- “A responsible body of medical men”
- Nothing but the truth
- Positive thinking – one dentist’s view of the pandemic
- Case study: Nerve injury
- Case Study: Consent to treat
- Case Study: Mercury fears
- Reflective practice – ‘the giftie gie us’
- Ethics: On moral distress
- Book choice: Intensive care
- Vignette: Baldev Kaushal (1906-1992)
Q1 2021
In this issue:
- Call log
- Practice matters: Alcohol and the workplace
- The limits of communication
- The best possible outcome
- Covert recording in a time of Covid
- Risk: Surviving the 'coronacoaster'
- THINGS DENTISTS SAY: "If it happened again, I would do exactly the same..."
- The story of a vaccination
- Case study: Unstable implant
- Case Study: Domiciliary dental care
- Case study: Bone loss
- Ethics: The "round hole" problem
- Wellbeing: Lockdown self care
- Book choice: Duty of care
Q4 2020
In this issue:
- Covid-19 has caused regulatory corners to be cut
- Call log
- New CQC regulatory approach for dental practices
- Holiday quarantine
- Good record keeping essential with remote consulting
- Domestic abuse and remote consulting
- Riding the planet
- A Covid journey
- THINGS DENTISTS SAY... “I can only do things one way”
- Professionalism in practice
- Case study: Debonded retainer
- Case Study: Broken file
- Case study: Near miss
- Wellbeing: You are not alone
- Ethics: "Know your place"
- Book choice: Dear NHS 100 - Stories to Say Thank You
Q3 2020
In this issue:
- Call log
- On the record
- Reopening your practice
- Action against addiction
- Lessons from a pandemic
- Ten behaviours that reduce risk
- Keeping your head above water
- Case study: Drink driving offence
- Case study: Injection pain
- Case study: Post-procedure sepsis
- ETHICS: Connected choices
- Book choice: The Remarkable Life of the Skin