Dental Health - Specialties
Specialties
This section provides links to the various dental specialities and their specialist groups and associations.
NHS Evidence offers a bibliography of guidelines published in the 12 months to May 2010.
Aesthetics
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Aesthetics
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Dento-facial Anomalies
- The British Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry
Dental Care Professionals (DCPs)
DCPs are required to be registered with the General Dental Council and include:
- Dental therapists
- Dental hygienists
- Dental nurses
- Dental technicians
- Clinical dental technicians
- Orthodontic therapists
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Dental Caries
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Orofacial Pain
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Special Care Dentistry
- British Association of Dental Nurses
- British Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapy
- British Association of Dental Therapists
Dental Public Health
Dental public health is the science and the art of preventing oral disease, promoting oral health, and improving the quality of life through the organised efforts of society.
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Dental Public Health
- British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry
- Public Health Wales - Health Needs Assessment 2006 Dental Health
Endodontics
Endodontics is concerned with the aetiology, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries affecting the dental pulp, tooth root, and periapical tissue which is mainly the result of dental caries (tooth decay) or trauma.
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Endodontics
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Dental Implants
- British Endodontic Society
Oral Medicine
The specialty of dentistry concerned with the oral health care of patients with chronic, recurrent and medically related disorders of the oral and maxillofacial region, and with their diagnosis and non-surgical management.
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Oral Infections
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Oral Medicine
- British Society for Oral Medicine
Oral Radiology
Oral Surgery
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Oral Surgery
- British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
- Royal College of Surgeons in England - Good Surgical Practice (2008)
- NICE Guidance - Wisdom Teeth Removal
- NICE Guidance - Customised titanium implants for orofacial reconstruction
Orthodontics
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Dento-facial Anomalies
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Orthodontics
- British Orthodontic Society
Paediatric Dentistry
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Paediatric Dentistry
- Preventing Dental Caries in Children at High Caries Risk - Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
Periodontology
- 2010 Oral Health Annual Evidence Update - Periodontal Disease and Periodontology
- British Society of Periodontology
