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ISSUE 6, VOL.1


Welcome Editor’sdesk with Bruce Oxley


Singing from the same day sheet


While I was speaking to all the people involved with dental outreach for the article featured on page 20 of this issue, I kept asking the same question. I asked them whether they were surprised, given all the different bodies and organisations involved, that dental outreach has been so successful?


I was half-hoping at least one of them would look over their shoulder and whisper: “Well, off the record, it was a nightmare dealing with so and so,” or “This group seem to have got the better deal”. But no, to a man they all said they weren’t surprised in the slightest.


Now after spending a fair amount of time talking to Andrew Forgie, David Watson and Andrew Hall, plus the people on the ground in Kilmarnock, it became clear that this wasn’t arrogance, just a reflection of how proud this group of people were with what they had achieved. It was also a reflection of years of hard work and cooperation in bringing together ten NHS boards, two (soon to be three) dental schools and NHS Education for Scotland. And, what became clear from very early on is that this has worked because everyone is gaining from the project. Universities,


health boards, students and patients all benefit. In these times of all- consuming bureaucracy and news of bail outs and double-dip recessions, it is refreshing to get a genuine good news story.


Speaking of good news I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome our newest columnist, Spencer Wells, to the Scottish Dental family. Claire Walsh left some pretty big shoes to fill (metaphorically-speaking of course), but I have every faith that Spencer is more than up to the task.


® Bruce Oxley is editor of Scottish Dental magazine. To contact Bruce, email bruce@connectcommunications.co.uk


Contents Dec 2010 / January 2011


NEWS> 06 Funding boost for dental charity


09 Let HIV dentists work says DPL


10 Supervision for Dundee graduate


FEATURES> 20 Dental outreach


28 Interview: Paul Stone


33 Special Smiles play project


CLINICAL> 44Water fluoridation by Colwyn Jones


46 Neil Heath looks at dental imaging


50 Why refer: the benefits of working with specialist practice


54 Mouth cancer: a political issue?


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