The new edition of the Primary Dental Journal, Oral Surgery, is now online.
Guest edited by Dr Aneesha Shah of King’s College London, this issue highlights the pertinent themes relevant to common oral surgery problems, covering a wide array of topics facing the primary dental care team.
It clearly presents many of the latest oral surgery approaches, techniques, and philosophies, featuring papers on predicting dental extractions, considerations for the medically complex patient, temporomandibular disorder, and managing complications.
The issue also features the first of five domains from the College’s Career Pathways in Dentistry: Professional Framework, which describes the knowledge, skills and other attributes expected of primary care dental professionals at different career stages – from safe practitioner through to accomplished practitioner. The ‘Clinical & Technical’ domain published in this issue will be followed by ‘Professionalism’, ‘Reflection’, ‘Development’, and ‘Agency’ domains in future issues of the Primary Dental Journal.
Full access to the majority of articles is reserved for College of General Dentistry members and Primary Dental Journal subscribers. For non-members / non-subscribers, individual print issues are available to purchase from £37. An annual print subscription, normally costing £114, is included with membership of the College. Membership is available from £94 for dentists and £33 for all other registered dental professionals, and also includes online access to the PDJ Archive of over 1,300 articles, and a range of other benefits.
CGDent members and PDJ subscribers should expect their printed copies to arrive in the next 2–3 weeks.
On behalf of the College, the PDJ editorial team would like to express its gratitude to all the authors and peer reviewers who have contributed to the publication of this issue.
A full list of papers is below.
CGDent members can view full articles via the links below by first visiting the PDJ Member Access page and clicking ‘Access the PDJ Archive’.
PDJ Autumn 2022 oral surgery issue contents
- Oral surgery for primary dental care by Igor R. Blum, Editor-in-Chief
- Oral surgery by Aneesha Shah, Guest Editor
- President’s update by Abhi Pal, CGDent President
- Research abstracts: oral surgery by Ario Santini
- Preventing wrong tooth extraction in primary care oral surgery: developing local safety standards for invasive procedures (LocSSIPs) by Harjit Kaur Tagar
- Making dental extractions predictable: a methodological approach by Jashme Patel, Aneesha Shah
- Safe intravenous sedation for oral surgery in a primary care setting by Samina Nayani-Low, Jashme Patel
- Record-keeping in intravenous sedation: are we meeting the standards? by Rebecca Ball, Richa Arya, Jashme Patel
- Oral surgery: considerations for the younger patient by Cathy Bryant
- Oral surgery: considerations for the medically complex patient by Cathy Bryant
- The evolving role of the dental nurse in oral surgery and implant surgery by Sheila McDonagh
- Obstructive salivary gland disease by Kiran Beneng
- When dental extractions go wrong: an overview of common complications and management by Olamide Obisesan, Cathy Bryant, Aneesha Shah
- An evaluation of patient informed consent for dental extractions by Richa Arya, Sarah Jadun, Aneesha Shah
- An audit of dental nurses’ confidence with intravenous sedation within an oral surgery department at a UK dental hospital by Elizabeth Barry, Aneesha Shah
- Osteonecrosis of the jaw in primary dental care: recognition and referral by Megan Burns, Vinod Patel
- Temporomandibular disorder: a guide for general dental practitioners by Aneesha Shah, Ambareen Naqvi
- An overview of assessment and management of acute dental pain by Sarah Jadun, Aneesha Shah
