ISSUE 1, VOL.5


Editor’s desk with Bruce Oxley The survey said Contents February-March 2014


It’s been four years since we relaunched the title as Scottish Dental magazine and they have been four exciting years.


From being shortlisted at the 2010 PPA Scottish Magazine Awards to launching the Scottish Dental Show in 2012 – which itself won the PPA’s award for Best Brand Extension in 2012 and 2013 – we haven’t stood still. At this year’s Scottish Dental Show at Braehead Arena in Glasgow on 9 and 10 May, we will be relaunching the magazine again, but we need your help. On page 7, we have details of our first-ever reader survey that we hope you will take a few minutes to fill in.


As an added incentive, we are giving away an iPad Air to one lucky


respondent. It shouldn’t take you longer than a few minutes but it is vital we get the feedback of the dental profession in Scotland so that we can make this magazine as relevant and as interesting for you as it can possibly be.


I’ve been out and about in recent weeks, gauging opinion and asking dental professionals what they think of the magazine and what they would like to see more of. So, if you have any views, or anything else you want to talk about over and above the questions raised in the survey, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.


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


NEWS> 05 Column: Biting back with Arthur Dent


11 New dean for Edinburgh College


11 Dishonest dentist struck off


12 VT trainers raise grant concerns


FEATURES> 21 Rep profile – Wendy Sands


22 Letters page 26 Interview with Derek Richards


CLINICAL> 42 Conservative, cosmetic orthodontics


48 First, do no


harm – managing tooth wear


53 Endodontics versus implants: the phoney war, by Bob Philpott


59 Errors in dental radiographs – a local retrospective audit


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