The impact of wrong-site surgery on dental undergraduate teaching: a survey of UK dental schools.

Introduction: Patient safety within dental education is paramount. Wrong-site surgery (WSS) tooth extraction is not uncommon and is a significant never event (NE) in dentistry. This study aimed to explore dental schools' undergraduate experience of NEs, safety interventions implemented and the impact on student experience.

The validity and reliability of an automated method of scoring dental arch relationships in unilateral cleft lip and palate using the modified Huddart-Bodenham scoring system.

Objective: To evaluate an automated software tool for the assessment of dental arch relationships using the modified Huddart and Bodenham (MHB) index.

Design: Cohort of 43 models of subjects aged 9-21 with UCLP and the ten GOSLON reference models sets.

Method: The 53 sets of plaster models were scored using the MHB index and scanned with a benchtop scanner.

A preliminary investigation into the effect of the use of the Short Message Service (SMS) on patient attendance at an NHS Dental Access Centre in Scotland.

Aim: This study´s aim was to assess whether the use of Short Message Service (SMS) text reminders sent to patients prior to their dental appointments improved attendance rates for two dentists at a dental access centre in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.

Method: Automated SMS text reminders were set up through practice management software at Kirkcaldy Dental Access Centre. Two audits, using a research methodology, were then performed.

Asymmetry of the craniofacial skeleton in the parents of children with a cleft lip, with or without a cleft palate, or an isolated cleft palate.

The objective of this study was to evaluate asymmetry of the parental craniofacial skeleton of subjects with a cleft lip, with or without cleft palate [CL(P)], and isolated cleft palate (CP). The postero-anterior (PA) cephalograms of 52 parents of children with CL(P) and 40 parents of children with CP from a sample of 196 children with non-syndromic clefts in the west of Scotland were analysed. A conventional cephalometric asymmetry analysis was used to evaluate size-related right:left asymmetry comprising eight linear distances, nine angular, and three facial area measurements.

Indications for and anticipated difficulty of third molar surgery: a comparison between a dental hospital and a specialist high street practice.

Objective: To investigate the indications for and anticipated difficulty of third molar surgery between two different referral settings.

Design: A prospective study involving completion of a proforma pre- and post-operatively.

Setting: A dental teaching hospital and a specialist surgical dentistry practice in 2003.

Interventions for treating oral candidiasis for patients with cancer receiving treatment.

Background: Treatment of cancer is increasingly effective but is associated with short and long-term side effects. Oral side effects, including oral candidiasis, remain a major source of illness despite the use of a variety of agents to treat them.

Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of interventions for the treatment of oral candidiasis for patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy and or radiotherapy.

Interventions for preventing oral mucositis for patients with cancer receiving treatment.

Background: Treatment of cancer is increasingly more effective but is associated with short and long term side effects. Oral side effects remain a major source of illness despite the use of a variety of agents to prevent them. One of these side effects is oral mucositis (mouth ulcers).

Interventions for treating oral candidiasis for patients with cancer receiving treatment.

Background: Treatment of cancer is increasingly effective but is associated with short and long-term side effects. Oral side effects, including oral candidiasis, remain a major source of illness despite the use of a variety of agents to treat them.

Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of interventions for the treatment of oral candidiasis for patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy and or radiotherapy.

Prevention of oral mucositis or oral candidiasis for patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy (excluding head and neck cancer).

Background: Treatment of cancer with chemotherapy is becoming increasingly more effective but is associated with short and long-term side effects. Oral side effects remain a major source of illness despite the use of a variety of agents to prevent them.

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of oral (and topical) prophylactic agents for oral mucositis and oral candidiasis in patients with cancer (excluding head and neck cancer), compared with placebo or no treatment.

p53 expression in dyskeratosis congenita: a marker for oral premalignancy?

As p53 expression has been associated with malignant disease its presence was assessed in biopsy specimens from dorsal lingual hyperkeratosis, taken over a five year period. p53 expression, using CM1, was assessed using a standard immunoperoxidase technique. p53 was not identified in the first biopsy specimen in 1986 but was identified in all subsequent ones.

An analysis of mandibular fractures in Dundee, Scotland (1977 to 1985).

A retrospective study was undertaken to assess mandibular fractures presenting over the period 1977-1985 in Dundee, Scotland. The data collected included age, sex, aetiology, month in which injury occurred, anatomical site of fracture, associated maxillofacial trauma and treatment modalities. The majority of fractures were sustained by males in the age group 20 to 29 years.