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Dental Clinical Effectiveness Newsletter Spring 2024
The latest edition of the Dental Clinical Effectiveness Newsletter is now available.
MRONJ guidance reviewed and extant March 2024
The 2017 edition of Oral Health Management of Patients at Risk of Medication-related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw has been reviewed and remains essentially unchanged and extant. A new supplement providing updated information on MRONJ incidence and drugs that might be associated with MRONJ is now available.
Periodontal Care guidance 2nd edition available
The second edition of Prevention and Treatment of Periodontal Diseases in Primary Care is now available.
Prevention and Treatment of Periodontal Diseases in Primary Care
New SDCEP Dental Companion website replaces Dental Companion app
The SDCEP Dental Companion app has been replaced by a new mobile-enabled Dental Companion website (URL: https://companion.sdcep.org.uk/). This website should be used instead of the Dental Companion app, which will no longer be supported or updated and should be deleted from all devices. You can create an icon button on your mobile device home screen to provide quick access to the new website.
New Drug Prescribing for Dentistry website replaces app
Further details in this news item.
https://www.sdcep.org.uk/news/new-sdcep-dental-prescribing-website-replaces-dental-prescribing-app/
Anticoagulants guidance 2nd edition available
The second edition of Management of Dental Patients Taking Anticoagulants or Antiplatelet Drugs is now available.
Management of dental patients taking anticoagulants or antiplatelet drugs
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The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP)
- provides user-friendly, evidence-based guidance with recommendations and advice presented in a form that can be interpreted easily and implemented
- provides practical implementation advice to clarify changes in legislation, professional regulations or other developments
- supports dental teams to provide high quality healthcare that is safe, effective and person-centred
SDCEP works in partnership
with the other three Clinical Effectiveness Workstream programmes:
- Translation Research in a Dental Setting (TRIADS) collaboration
- Scottish Dental Practice Based Research Network (SDPBRN)
- Quality Improvement in Practice Training (QIiPT) team
These comprise the Clinical Effectiveness workstream of NHS Education for Scotland’s Dental Directorate. SDCEP also collaborates with Cochrane Oral Health.