This weeks blog is a quick run through of essential information on clinical record keeping in the dental setting. Good notes are an essential tool for a dental professional and are a requirement both in dental school and throughout your dental career. A patient’s clinical record may include: Clinical notes Radiographs Consent forms Photographs Study casts Audio[…]

It can be quite tricky remembering the forceps used in oral surgery and the protocol to follow when bringing a patient in for a tooth extraction…or two! Here is a step by step guide on how to handle your oral surgery sessions: Before the patient arrives, check the patient’s notes: Name, DoB and Hospital number[…]

A lot of us started back at university this week, and unfortunately we always get an increase in sharps injuries at the beginning of term. The Risk Assessment Tool for Sharps (RATS) is a good way for dental students and clinicians to assess a clinical area for risks associated with sharps injuries, prior to commencing[…]

  Many of us students struggle to give good smoking cessation advice to our patients as most of us don’t fully understand what it’s like to go through the process of stopping smoking. Recently on BBC Radio 4, presenter John Waite looked into the life and work of a man named Allen Carr. No not[…]

On the Thursday 17th November 2016 MUDRSoc held their annual Intercalation Talk, giving BDS students an insight into what Intercalation involves within Dentistry at the University of Manchester. If you didn’t manage to make the event, keep reading to get a brief overview of what you missed! Intercalating involves taking a year out of Dentistry[…]

Dental foundation training assessment day is around the corner so I thought it’d be a good idea to try and collate some top tips from DFT trainers, DCTs and students who have been through it themselves! This assessment day will decide where you will be working for your first year in practice after university (or[…]