These cases are based on actual calls made to MDDUS advisers and are published here to highlight common challenges within dental practice. Details have been changed to maintain confidentiality.

Solicitor Lindsey McGregor offers the latest advice on dental record keeping.

Employment law adviser Liz Symon offers practical advice on managing employees' return to work.

How can dentists help patients reduce the risk of addiction and other health issues from painkiller misuse? Graeme Dixon from change management firm Agencia shares insights from an innovative new approach

Dr Allan Gaw looks back to the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak and finds some cogent similarities to the current crisis

Senior risk adviser Liz Price offers advice on addressing risk as a team in the context of COVID-19

Dento-legal adviser Rachael Bell shares some personal insight and practical tips for managing your wellbeing.

...Dr K had a few glasses of champagne early in the evening and assumed she was fit to drive...

...The patient is unhappy that the dentist did not recognise her distress during the injection...

...It is claimed that the dentist breached his duty of care to the patient by extracting a wisdom tooth which was infected by an abscess...

PROFESSOR Deborah Bowman considers the "fundamental connectedness" of clinicians, managers and lay members coming together to understand ethical dilemmas amidst COVID-19.

Book review by Dr Greg Dollman