Journal of Disability and Oral Health

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Cover Date:
April 2006
Print ISSN:
1470-8558
Electronic ISSN:
1754-2758
Vol:
7
Issue:
1

Editorial - Special Care Dentistry – a reality

The year 2005 will be recalled as a landmark year for Special Care Dentistry. Three members - Norman Campbell, Janice Fiske and Janet Griffiths - were honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in the summer for their contributions to the speciality and in December, the General Dental Council (GDC) approved in principle, the need for a speciality of Special Care Dentistry (SCD). It had to come; countless patients, parents, support groups and dental teams could not have all been wrong. The submissions received by the GDC in its call for views were testimony to the need and demand out there for for mal recognition of what selfless, dedicated oral health care teams had been doing for years. Now comes the really hard work. It was a year too which saw much activity in related areas. The Department of Health had commissioned the British Society for Disability and Oral Health to set up a working group to explore a way forward in establishing dentists with a special interest – DwSI – in SCD and that group is now ready to present its finished document on competencies for such a group of dentists in the UK health ser vice. The Society also launched its competencies for undergraduate education in this journal in the spring of 2005 and in the closing stages of the year we welcomed the incoming president of BSDH, Peter Holland, our first non-dentist to take the helm for what will surely be an important year. In 2006, Sue Greening, a past president of BSDH, assumes the mantel of president of the British Dental Association. The annual conference of the BDA in Birmingham inMay has a significant input in relation to Special Care Dentistry with coverage of challenges in dental care for older people as well as a session on Special Care Dentistry.

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June Nunn

Articles from this issue

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  1. Editorial - Special Care Dentistry – a reality
  2. 2
  3. 2

  1. Oral health findings in a group of Greek schoolchildren with mild intellectual impairment
  2. 3
  3. 9

  1. A comparison of the effectiveness of chlorhexidine varnish, fluoride varnish and fluoride gel in children with intellectual disability
  2. 10
  3. 16

  1. Feeding habits of children with Down syndrome living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  2. 17
  3. 21

  1. An approach to the restoration of fractured anterior teeth in adolescents with intellectual impairment
  2. 25
  3. 28

  1. The use of hypnosis and systematic desensitisation in the management of dental phobia: a case report
  2. 29
  3. 34

  1. Mortality after full mouth rehabilitation under general anesthesia for a child with Tetralogy of Fallot: report of a case
  2. 35
  3. 42

  1. Oral hygiene status and behaviour of the special needs children in Lahore, Pakistan
  2. 43
  3. 47

  1. The oral health status of Special Olympics athletes in Trinidad and Tobago
  2. 48
  3. 52

  1. The dental management of a patient with erythromelalgia: a case report
  2. 53
  3. 54

  1. BSDH News
  2. 55
  3. 55

  1. Addendum
  2. 56
  3. 56

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