Carole Boyle
Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Special Care Dentistry; Clinical Lead, Department of Sedation and Special Care Dentistry, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London
Using Inhalation Sedation for Oral Surgery
Charlotte RichardsMany patients are anxious about dental extractions and are unable to tolerate treatment under local anaesthetic alone. There are many cohorts of patients where operator-sedationist treatment with...
Dementia and dentistry
Julie A EdwardsDementia is going to affect us all: either in the patients we treat, as sufferers ourselves or as carers for our loved ones. The dental team needs to be aware of the early signs and how to manage...
Dysphagia and dentistry
Charlotte CurlSwallowing is a process by which food and liquid move from the mouth, down through the back of the throat, through the oesophagus and into the stomach. It is estimated that each individual swallows...
Sedation for patients with movement disorders
Charlotte CurlThe phrase ‘Movement disorders’ describes a wide range of conditions which are neurological in origin and are manifest in individuals as problems with the control of body movement.1 Movement involves...
Sickle cell disease, dentistry and conscious sedation
Catherine BryantSickle cell disease is found in many populations and parts of the world historically associated with malarial endemicity. People of Afro-Caribbean, West African, Asian and Northern Greek descent are...