ISSUE 3, VOL.3
Editor’s desk Simple ideas
with Bruce Oxley
In our last issue, we featured a story about two senior NHS employees who have led a pioneering project to make a visit to the dentist a less traumatic experience for children with autism and other special needs. Debbie Connelly and
Lyndsay Ovenstone used simple but highly effective ideas to equip the paediatric dental surgery within Bridgeton Health Centre and it is starting to get noticed. So much so that when the new Public Health Minister Michael Matheson heard about the project, through the pages of Scottish Dental magazine no less, he was determined to see it for himself. Not least because it cost a relatively small amount of money. He officially opened the newly-refurbished surgery
in July and, as well as a tour around the facility, he got a chance to meet a parent who has first-hand experience of the difference the new surgery is having on patients’ lives. Stephanie Johnstone’s
three-year-old daughter Charleigh has autism and previously had found it extremely upsetting even accompanying her mother to the dentist. However, thanks to Debbie
and Lyndsay, Charleigh’s first visit to the Bridgeton surgery was a revelation. While she doesn’t usually even speak in public, she was so relaxed and at ease, she chatted and played with staff during her appointment. And on top of all this,
equipping the surgery only cost £3,000. So, what’s the
catch? Well, for once, there isn’t one. It’s just a good news story about an idea being brought to fruition through team working, good communication and a little bit of imagination. And surely we can all learn
from that? Read all about the official
opening on page 7. Also, apologies are due. In
the last issue we began a “real time” implant case study with Dr Stephen Jacobs and his patient. We intended to continue it in this issue, however, holidays got in the way. The series will return in the October/ November issue.
® Bruce Oxley is editor of Scottish Dental magazine. To contact Bruce, email bruce@
connectcommunications.co.uk
Contents August/September 2011
NEWS> 05 Column: biting back with Spencer Wells
06 Dental factory closes in Borders
11 Two new dental centres in Fife
FEATURES> 20 Benevolent fund 30 Interview: Prof Richard Ibbetson
34 Practice profile 40 Archivist profile
CLINICAL> 43 Resective bone surgery
47 Maxillary lateral incisor restoration
53 Managing soft tissue
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