Managing mental health crises in dental practice.

This paper aims to summarise current evidence and practice relating to mental health crises within dental practice. We review cases occurring within our practice, including management and lessons learnt. We then aim to provide a practical guide to manage such crises.

Systemic medicines taken by adult special care dental patients and implications for the management of their care.

Introduction Significant changes have taken place in the profile of prescription medicines being taken by the adult UK population over the last decade. The aims of this article are to review the literature to understand the overall trends and underlying factors, and then to compare this with the medication profile of a cohort of adult special care dental (SCD) patients. Materials and method Five hundred patient records were examined and retrospective data on systemic medicines being taken were obtained and classified according to the index used in the British National Formulary (BNF).

Maternal xylitol and mutans streptococci transmission.

Data Sources: PubMed, EMBASE, SCOPUS, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases and the ClinicalTrials.gov registry were searched with related articles'. Experts were contacted and a manual search of reference lists was undertaken.