Journal of Disability and Oral Health

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Cover Date:
March 2015
Print ISSN:
1470-8558
Vol:
16
Issue:
1

Editorial


Editorial
Developing the New Speciality – The Welsh Way!

Introduction
Many of you will know that in 2008 the Speciality of Special Care Dentistry (SCD) was established as a new specialty in the UK, and our regulatory body the General Dental Council (GDC) now holds a list of specialists in SCD. This was after years of lobbying and hard work to convince our professional bodies that patients in the UK would benefit from such a speciality. Prior to 2008 SCD was provided through our public dental service, the Community Dental Service and through hospital services. Those providing these services, some with many years of experience, were mediated on to the specialist list between 2008 and 2010 through a process by which the dentists had to demonstrate, through a detailed portfolio of evidence, that they had reached the status and equivalence of a specialist. We now have 313 specialists in the UK and four registered outside of the UK, including a group of consultants in SCD. Achieving the establishment of such a list of specialists is not the same as developing specialist services and since the birth of the specialty the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK has been working in at least a ‘cash neutral’ environment. This meant that there was no obvious financial support available for funding new posts and training programmes in a very tight financial climate. Not the best start for a new specialty! However, we in SCD have had the opportunity to look at the services we were providing and look at what would be appropriate for the future.

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  1. Editorial
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  1. Perceptions of UK secondary care adult dental conscious sedation clinics: a qualitative analysis
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  3. 11

  1. Dental caries and oral hygiene status in children with physical disability attending various special schools in Udaipur, India
  2. 12
  3. 18

  1. Barriers to dental care for patients with congenital bleeding disorders
  2. 19
  3. 24

  1. A multi-disciplinary, multi-centre audit of access to and satisfaction with dental services for patients with Congenital Bleeding Disorders (CBDs)
  2. 25
  3. 32

  1. The use of flumazenil for adults with learning disabilities undergoing conscious sedation with midazolam for dental treatment: a multicentre prospective audit
  2. 33
  3. 37

  1. Diary Dates
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