Welcome to NHS Evidence - oral health
Byte sized oral health information
NHS Evidence - oral health is designed to encourage and assist the use of evidence in practice by providing the following:
- Rapid access to the best available published resources in evidence based oral health, in accordance with our quality policy
- Annual evidence updates for hot topics
- Dentistry in the News: appraisal of research in the headlines
- Information and events of interest
Website last updated 4 February 2010
2009 Special Care Dentistry Annual Evidence Update
In December NHS Evidence - oral health produced an Annual Evidence Update on Special Care Dentistry.
It is also available as a pdf with full citations.
2009 Oral Cancer Annual Evidence Update
November was Mouth Cancer Month and we presented our 2009 Oral Cancer Annual Evidence Update. It provides a summary of the best available clinical information (systematic reviews, meta-analyses and guidelines) published since October 2008. The information is also available as a pdf file.
The Update includes a commentary on the evidence by Dr David Conway, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Glasgow University Dental School and Honorary Consultant in Dental Public Health at NHS National Services Scotland (NSS).
What's New in Oral Health
20 January 2010: Five new Cochrane systematic reviews of interest to oral health professionals have been published. [More]
1 January 2010: The General Dental Council has published guides for the dental team on the topic of continuing professional development. [More]
17 December 2009: The UK National Screening Committee is currently seeking comments and feedback on its draft evaluation for oral cancer. [More]
16 December 2009: The MHRA has issued a precautionary drug alert on the recall of Dentinox Teething Gel 15mg. The licence holder is carrying out the precautionary recall owing to the presence of very small amounts of a contaminant, glyoxal, in the product. There is currently no evidence of harm and no suspected adverse drug reactions have been reported. [More]
8 December 2009: The latest CDO Newsletter has been published. [More]
1 December 2009: The Department of Health has issued guidance to help improve the quality of decontamination carried out locally within the dental practice. [More]
1 December 2009: Alison Lockyer has been elected as the new Chair of the Council of the GDC.
26 November 2009: HSE issues radiation compliance warning to dental practices. [More]
26 November 2009: The latest NHS Dental Statistics for England (Q1) were published today. [More]
25 November 2009: New Dental Access template agreement has been released. [More]
24 November 2009: The General Dental Council has clarified its position in relation to the Government’s new Vetting and Barring Scheme: designed to help prevent unsuitable people working with children and vulnerable adults. [More]
24 November 2009: The chief dental officer Barry Cockcroft has launched a new initiative designed to encourage homeless people to access regular dental care. [More]
24 November 2009: The GDC reminds dentists of deadline for Annual Retention Fee payment [More]
24 November 2009: The Chief Dental Officer has issued a letter urging commissioners and dental practices to use NHS secure email service. [More]
5 November 2009: The latest data on the number of new NHS dental contracts signed and rejected and the approximate service value of these contracts expressed in units of dental activity (UDA) is now available. The report notes that 86.9 million UDA were commissioned in the quarter to 30 September, an increase of 2.5 million or 2.9% compared to the previous quarter.
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Oral Health Annual Evidence Update
This Oral Health Annual Evidence Update brings together the latest systematic reviews and evidence-based guidelines.
For the Update we identified and critically appraised all oral health systematic reviews published during 2008.
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