Patient Management

’Educating the educated’: a report of an undergraduate medical student with multiple carious lesions and poor dietary habits

A 22-year-old female attended the undergraduate restorative clinic for a general check-up at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Having last visited a dentist two years previously,...

The role of the general dental practitioner in managing the oral care of head and neck oncology patients

An important role of the primary dental care team is the prevention of oral diseases. In this regard, the two most important environmental risk factors in head and neck cancers are tobacco and...

The role of the general dental practitioner (GDP) in the management of abuse of vulnerable adults

The term ‘vulnerable adult’ is defined as ‘a person aged 18 years or over who is, or may be in need of, community care services by reason of mental or other disability, age or illness; and who is, or...