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Items of News and Current Interest in Special Care dentistry. The following links are for general information about current issues in Special Care Dentistry. BSDH does not necessarily endorse either part or all of the content of the links: Click the headings to follow the links. Special Care Dentistry Meetings 2009/2010
Whats New: Professor Crispian Scully awarded Doctorate in Finland On June 4th Professor Scully received a Doctorate from the University
of Helsinki, Finland for international leadership in Oral Medicine
and Pathology, and Special Care Dentistry; scientific contributions
- especially from discovery of viral nucleic acids in oral cancer
(Lancet 1983; ii: 766-768) which, with further studies from his
and several other groups, finally established a viral aetiology
for a range of oral neoplasms and implicated sexual transmission;
clinical identification of several new orofacial entities; and contribution
to education - not least via around 40 books and nearly 900 MEDLINE
papers. Click the headline to see Professor Scully in his Doctoral finery! Thinking about the 21st IADH Conference in 2012? IADH President, Leda Mugayar wants to invite Special Care Dentists from around the world to her exciting Congress, 17th-20th October 2012 in Sydney. Please fill out the expression of interest form if you are thinking of attending. Course on Autism for the Dental Team at Liverpool University It will be held on 30th November 2010 and aims to give teams a background to autistic spectrum disorders and how practices can alter their environment and working practices to better suit the needs of autistic patients. The School wishes to appoint a Lecturer to the Division of Public and Child Dental Health tenable from 1st September 2010. The successful applicant will contribute to both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Public Dental Health and Special Care Dentistry. In particular, the appointee will be expected to contribute towards the development of a new postgraduate qualification in Special Care Dentistry for 2011. The successful candidate will be involved in research in public dental health, disability and related areas ongoing within the division. In addition, s/he will be given the opportunity to maintain his/her advanced clinical skills by the treatment of people with disabilities who are referred to the Dublin Dental Hospital. For further details of the post, click the headline Intercollegiate Advisory Committee for Sedation in Dentistry The inaugural meeting of this committee was held on the 17th May at the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Janice Fiske is representing BSDH and Chairing the committee. Click the headline above for the press release. Spring Scientific meeting handouts now available The handouts for the May Scientific meeting are now available to download Web Forum for Trainees in Special Care Dentistry Bryan Kerr, SpR at Guys, has set up a web forum where fellow trainees can contact each other and share experiences of the training pathway. Click the headline above to go to the forum and register. Are you a Dental Nurse, Hygienist or Therapist BSDH is developing what it offers to DCPs and has created a social networking site for DCPs who work in Special Care Dentistry. Join now! Are you a Trainee in Special Care Dentistry? BSDH is considering how it might support dentists on SCD Specialist Training programmes. If you are an SpR in Special Care Dentistry, Rob Hale would like to hear from you. These new guidelines are an adjunct to the 'Principles of Intervention' policy document and reflect the developments in legislation and training programmes since the original document. Do You Teach Special Care Dentistry? Information about the BSDH Teachers Group is now available. If you teach SCD to Undergraduates or Postgraduates or are interested in mentoring, the group wants to hear from you! Guidelines for the Delivery of a Domiciliary Oral Healthcare service These revised guidelines, by Debbie Lewis and Janice Fiske, were launched on 19th August, in Poole NICE Guideline: When to Suspect Child Maltreatment This guidance, aimed at health, social and education professionals was published on 20th July. A section on Oral Health starts on page 74. Joint BSDH/ ISDH Executive Commitee Meeting in Dublin A Joint Committee Meeting was held on 25th June 2009 at Dublin Dental Institute. Collaboration between the Societies was discussed and it is planned that guidelines will be produced jointly. The following day, the ISDH Annual Scientific meeting, opened by Irish President and Patron of ISDH, Mary McAleese, was held. The members of both Executive Committees are pictured on the stairs of Dublin Dental Institute.
BSPD policy document on dental neglect in children This document is published in the International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry. Australia and New Zealand Academy of Special Needs Dentistry formed On 13th February 2009, a group of Special Care Dentistry specialists formed a new specialist society The Provision of Oral Health Care under General Anaesthesia in Special Care Dentistry A Professional Consensus Statement by BSDH published National Guidelines for PCTs on the appointment of dentists with
a special interest in special care dentistry have been published
the the Department of Health
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