Oral Cancer
Letters to the Editor
I read with interest the most current issue of Dental Update, especially of interest was how the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown has affected 2-week...
Early Detection of Oral Cancer in General Practice – 30 Years of Searching
As general practitioners, how can we help? In 2012, the General Dental Council (GDC) made ‘early detection of oral cancer’ a recommended topic in...
Mouth Cancer – Risk Factors and Potentially Malignant Disorders
The majority of cases of SSC in the mouth arise in what was previously clinically normal tissue. However, some cancers are known to develop within a...
Mouth Cancer: the Maxillofacial Surgeon's perspective
General dental practitioners play a key role in the detection and early management of oral cancer, referring approximately 40% of all cases to...
Measuring Oral Health: From Simple Scoring to a Combined Risk-assessment Approach
The World Health Organization1 describes health in holistic terms as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the...
Letters to the Editor
As dental practitioners, we come across a number of unusual pathologies that can cause diagnostic dilemma and can increase anxiety to the clinician as...
Every Contact Matters: the Role of the GDP
There are a number of factors that can be screened as part of the social history when a patient attends for a dental check-up. The Faculty of General...
Fear Factor: Anxiety - a Cause of Delayed Presentation of Oral Cancer
Numerous studies have explored the reasons for delayed presentation of oral cancer. There are two main causes for delays in cancer presentation...
Head and Neck cancer part 1: diagnosis and classification
Knowledge of the common risk factors for head and neck cancer can enable dental practitioners to consider the individualized risk levels of their...
A pilot study to investigate the dental team's awareness and confidence in advising patients with regards to shisha smoking
Following consultation with the Smoke-Free Birmingham team, a paper-based pilot questionnaire was devised and distributed amongst 10 students and...
Motivational interviewing in managing dental caries in children
‘A collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal...
Childsmile after 10 years part 1: background, theory and principles
A traditional biomedical model of dental caries has been well documented. Intra-orally, the following factors play an important role:.
Letters to the editor
After over 35 years as a GDP you can't help but get a little cynical, and the announcement by a government Health Secretary regarding prevention in...
Head and neck skin cancers and where to find them − A quality improvement project
Due to the lack of baseline research on dentists' knowledge of skin cancers, the project began as a survey with the aim to ascertain the current level...
Risk Assessment in Periodontal Disease
Risk assessment is the foundation stone for prevention, employing the latest evidence base to identify those patients who have a higher likelihood of...