A review of water fluoridation studies and the effect on dental caries and treatment costs, undertaken in Scotland.

Objectives This review aimed to investigate the effect of water fluoridation on the dental health of Scottish people by comparing results of starting and discontinuing fluoridation in Scotland.Data sources Data sources were retrieved from electronic databases. The grey literature was also searched.

Effect of a brief dietary counselling intervention on emergency department cardiac chest pain presentations.

Introduction: 15% of all presentations to our emergency department last year were chest pain related. This presented an opportunity to evaluate the impact of a brief physician counselling intervention on patient-reported changes in cardio-protective foodstuff intake.

Methods: This is a prospective non-randomised before and after comparison study without controls, conducted between an emergency department presentation and a scheduled follow-up visit at a cardiac diagnostics department.