Insight Dental Q3 2023
In this issue:
- Safeguarding children in dentistry
- Leadership: Managing change - 10 essential tactics
- Call log
- MDDUS: “Tired. Concerned. Trying not to lose hope.” A report from the NHS frontline
- Practice management: Probationary periods
- Is it safe to apologise?
- Professional development: The power of trust
- Advice: Keeping up with CPD
- Case file: Over-diagnosis allegation
- Case file: Bony infection
- Case file: Right tooth, wrong patient
- Ethics: How should a person be?
- Vignette: Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick (1924 – 2017)
Insight Dental Q2 2023
In this issue:
- 10 questions to ask before giving feedback
- Pitfalls: Needle breakage
- Practice management: Taking time off for elective surgery
- Call log
- Professional development: Know your patient, know yourself
- Risk: Being prepared for unexpected medical emergencies
- Catalysing civility – resolving workplace conflict
- GDC: A brush with the law
- Environment: Making dentistry greener
- Case file: Treatment abroad
- Case file: Alleged substandard restoration
- Case file: Mobile tooth
- Feature: A more perfect language than that of words
- Ethics: The human touch
- Vignette: John Alcindor (1873-1924)
Insight Dental Q1 2023
In this issue:
- Advice: A friendly favour, or fraud?
- Pitfalls: Managing risks in oral surgery
- Practice management: Managing poor performance
- Call log
- Professional development: Being a generalist in a specialised world
- Burnout risks patient safety
- Case file: Chemical burn
- Case file: Root in situ
- Case file: Infective endocarditis risk
- Probity – the hidden pitfalls
- Feature: The surprising history of medical defence
- Ethics: Hard choices – on difficult decisions
- Viewpoint: A place of acceptance
- Vignette: Jane Elizabeth Waterston (1843-1932)
Insight Dental Q4 2022
In this issue:
- Dementia-friendly dental practice
- Resolving patient complaints
- Practice management: Dealing with long Covid as a disability
- Call log
- The career advice you shouldn’t follow
- Advice: Unwanted advances
- Risk: Don't get caught out on indemnity
- Case file: Long tooth
- Case file: Disclosure to social services
- Case file: Reduced treatment time
- First person: A long road
- Advice: Ending your professional relationship with a patient
- Ethics: Out of office – the ethics of taking a break
- Viewpoint: End the silence
- Book choice: Am I normal?
- Vignette: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)
Insight Dental Q3 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: A lifetime perspective
- Call log
- Practice management: One of my employees is pregnant – what do we both need to do?
- Advice: "VUCA” – and the secret to surviving in uncertain times
- Professional pitfalls in social media use
- Clinical photography: know the risks
- Dental tourism: picking up the pieces
- Helping homeless people smile again
- Pitfalls in the management of dental trauma
- Dental case study: Exercising clinical judgement
- Dental case study: Fractured tuberosity
- Dental case study: Persistent gingival swelling
- Feature: How the physician to the gladiators became the father of modern medicine
- Ethics: A girl I used to know - on Derry Girls and ethical development
- Book choice: Hybrid Humans - Dispatches from the frontiers of man and machine
- Vignette: John T Shepherd (1919-2011)
Insight Dental Q2 2022
In this issue:
- Call log
- Practice management: Dressing the part
- Advice: Who needs a mentor?
- Practice matters: Keep complaint records separate
- Tackling the backlog
- Conflict with colleagues – nipping issues in the bud
- Responding to online practice criticism
- Pitfalls in composite bonding
- No man’s land - the pioneering women of WW1
- Dental case study: Slow healing socket
- Dental case study: Adverse comment
- Dental case study: Dental insurance cover
- Dilemma: Covert recording made public
- Ethics: Lessons learned - ethical and educational
- Book choice: Recovery – The Lost Art of Convalescence
- Vignette: Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)
Insight Dental Q1 2022
In this issue:
- Call log
- Practice management: Menopause and the workplace
- Advice: Snakes and ladders – the path to success
- Risk: Disclosure of dental patient records
- Coping with Covid – the top 6 challenges
- Referrals - who, why, when, how?
- Resilient practice – addressing human factors
- Pitfalls in short-term orthodontics
- Dental case study: Antibiotic cover
- Dental case study: Alleged wrong extraction
- Ethics: On broken teapots and “holding” to account
- Book choice: Many different kinds of love - A story of life, death and the NHS
- Vignette: Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)
Insight Dental Q4 2021
In this issue:
- Wellbeing: Introducing YourHalo
- Call log
- Employment law: Sexual harassment in the workplace
- Risk: What's up with WhatsApp
- Advice: Know your patient – tips to avoid complaints
- Complaints handling: Proactive response to patient complaints
- Lowering the temperature in hostile patient encounters
- Breaking up is hard to do
- Finding PPE that's fit for all
- Case study: Beyond what's reasonable
- Case study: Lip trauma
- Case study: Emergency backlog
- Legal: Being a competent expert witness
- Ethics: On meeting ethical distress
- Book choice: The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Vignette: Pat O'Callaghan (1906-1991)
Insight Dental Q3 2021
In this issue:
- Call log
- Practice matters: Respecting religious practice
- Spending your time wisely
- MDDUS protects you, protects your business
- Risk: Working without professional registration
- Parental responsibility - getting it right
- Profile: On the inside: Covid-19
- Human factors: Civility saves lives
- Reflective practice: Improving self awareness to reduce risk
- Clinical risk reduction: Identifying oral cancer
- Case study: NHS treatment costs
- Case study: Treatment abroad
- Case study: Pinpoint fistula
- Ethics: On hypocrisy
- Book choice: The Doctor Who Fooled the World
- Vignette: Lilian Lindsay (1871 - 1960)
Insight Dental Q2 2021
In this issue:
- Call log
- Pratice matters: Staff refusing Covid-19 vaccination
- Talking about money. Honestly.
- Social media risks
- Risk: Treating colleagues
- DISCover how to transform your communication
- THINGS DENTISTS SAY: “I don’t know…”
- “A responsible body of medical men”
- Nothing but the truth
- Positive thinking – one dentist’s view of the pandemic
- Case study: Nerve injury
- Case Study: Consent to treat
- Case Study: Mercury fears
- Reflective practice – ‘the giftie gie us’
- Ethics: On moral distress
- Book choice: Intensive care
- Vignette: Baldev Kaushal (1906-1992)