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This month BDJ Team meets dental care professionals working on and running Revive Dental Care's Hard to Reach service in Greater Manchester, including Deborah Parker (now CEO) and dental nurses Jennifer Musgrave and Faye Greenhalgh.
We also place the spotlight on dental hygienists and therapists with articles on stress and well-being, gag reflex control using acupuncture, and the BSDHT and BADT's mission to secure prescribing rights.
Professor Andrew Eder considers the damage that can be caused to the teeth if patients are too heavy-handed with their toothbrushing, as well as exploring other potential causes of abrasion and offering preventive advice to be passed on to patients.
In this article, originally published in Dental Health in July, the BSDHT and BADT interview Michaela ONeill (pictured) and explain their mission to secure prescribing rights for dental hygienists and dental therapists, and the process for doing so.
BDJ Team meets some of the dental care professionals closely involved in Revive Dental Care's dental nurse-led Hard to Reach service in Greater Manchester.
M. Harris, J. C. Wilson, S. Hughes and D. R. Radford investigate students’ motivation to become clinicians and put forward an optimistic view of the role of stress.