Oral Health

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 Dental Practitioners suggests factors, listed in...

The dentist's role in smoking cessation management – a literature review and recommendations: part 2

The suggestion that smoking cessation could be split into five different stages was first described by Prochaska and DiClemente.4 In this article it is assumed that the model is in relation to smoking...

The dentist's role in smoking cessation management — a literature review and recommendations: part 1

For over 200 years, there has been an ever-increasing body of evidence regarding the risks of tobacco use.1 Links between clay pipe smoking and malignancy of the lip and mouth were made as early as...