Book choice: Duty of care
Book review by Dr Greg Dollman
Wellbeing: Lockdown self care
MDDUS medico-legal adviser Dr Emily Shepherd and her dachshund Daphne explain in a short video how she looks after her mental health and wellbeing
Call log
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.
THINGS DENTISTS SAY: "If it happened again, I would do exactly the same..."
In the second article in the series, dental adviser Mike Williams looks at the importance of learning from adverse events
Top tips for improving patient communication
Dental Business Coach Alun K Rees offers top tips for improving patient communication
GDC: The best possible outcome
Dental adviser Sarah Harford shares her golden rules for responding to a GDC investigation
Insight Dental Q1 2021
In this issue:
- Call log
- Practice matters: Alcohol and the workplace
- Top tips for improving patient communication
- GDC: The best possible outcome
- Risk: Covert recording in a time of Covid
- Surviving the 'coronacoaster'
- THINGS DENTISTS SAY: "If it happened again, I would do exactly the same..."
- Feature: 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
Risk: Covert recording in a time of Covid
The increase in remote telephone and video consultations due to the pandemic has made it easier for patients to record consultations. Is this something that should worry dentists?
Guide for public on Covid-19 testing
A GUIDE to Covid-19 testing for patients and the public has been published by the Royal College of Pathologists.
Radiotherapy teams adapt to significant Covid-19 impact
DELIVERY of radiotherapy treatment was significantly impacted during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the number of new treatment courses down 19.9 per cent in April 2020 compared to the same month in 2019.