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‘I’ve yet to meet someone who enjoys parking their rear end in a dental chair’ oral health coach Leigh Hunter on her 21st-century approach to dentistry

On the right track

Debra Worthington is an orthodontic nurse and president of the Orthodontic National Group. She shares her career journey…

Dentists who have studied dentistry outside the EU are required to take the Overseas Registration Examination (ORE) in order to become registered with the General Dental Council and practise as a dentist in the UK. Some are turning to dental nursing while they wait. Emma Male reports

Conscious sedation training

Dentist Andrew Jones considers the added value and benefits to dental nurses and their patients

A day in the life

‘I’ve come so far from not knowing a mirror from a probe’ – dental nurse and self-confessed dental geek, Carmel Wood, talks us through this role

Could you be a coach?

Fiona Stuart-Wilson on effective support in practice

Take the plunge!

Throughout the UK, the structure and complexity of dental practice management is changing rapidly. Glenys Bridges considers these changes for dental nurses looking for a new career path

Specialist work

Kemi Bakare considers oral surgical care and the dental nurse

From dental nurse to dentist

How practice owner Jaye Jelley drew on her numerous roles in dentistry to create the perfect setting

Guns to gums

Shaun Howe is a dental therapist working in the public dental service for NHS Shetland, is an NEBDN examiner and a dental nurse tutor. Here, he shares his career path

She's football crazy

Stacy Wright is a 31-year-old Manchester City fan and dental nurse who is treatment coordinator and patient care advisor at two cosmetic dental practices in Manchester

Suction in the sunshine

Sarah Jones combines life as a dental nurse in Abu Dhabi with her passion for deep sea diving. Here, she shares her life – on land and off – with Julie Bissett

Time to take the next step?

Are you trained to communicate at the optimum level? The role of a treatment coordinator is to remove 90% of non-clinical dentistry from the dentist. So, what does it take to have impact and get results? We hear from award-winning dentist Andrea Ubhi and dental nurse and TCO Carmel Wood

‘42 years ago

We hear from dental nurse Elaine Cavey who waved farewell to her long career in dentistry earlier in the summer, having worked along the same dentist for 30 years