British Dental Journal

24 January 1998, Volume 184, Issue 2
Table of Contents

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Leader

Can you trust your dentist? 55
M Grace

Letters

Abuse of drug prescriptions/Free toothpaste for children 56

Tackling referral procedure problems/Lack of dentistry in new NHS 57

Dental Health

Dental health education: what lessons have we ignored? 58
AS Blinkhorn

Child protection

The dental practitioner’s role in protecting children from abuse 2. The orofacial signs of abuse 61
RR Welbury and JM Murphy

Case studies

An unusual seat belt injury in a 7-year-old boy 66
SJ Lloyd and RR Welbury

Derangement of warfarin anticoagulation by miconazole oral gel 68
MN Pemberton, P Sloan, S Ariyaratnam, NS Thakker and MH Thornhill

Periodontology

Advances in periodontal diagnosis 2. New clinical methods of diagnosis 71
BM Eley and SW Cox

Abstracts

A selection of abstracts from dental journals 75
T Watts

One-page summaries of the research papers in this issue 77

Radiography

Factors affecting the diagnostic quality of bitewing radiographs 80
BL Chadwick and PHM Dummer

Epidemiology

A longitudinal study of the dental care of adults in the general dental service in Scotland: the first 6 years, 1988-1994 85
JA Davies, ZJ Nugent, NB Pitts and PA Smith

Prosthetics

The emotional effects of tooth loss in edentulous people 90
J Fiske, DM Davis, C Frances and S Gelbier

View from the chair

Dealing with patients 95
S Hancocks

News 96

Trade news

Cross infection 98

Quality development award

Kirk Hallam Practice, Derbyshire 103

Diary 103

Obituaries 104


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