Techniques dentists can use to improve dental patient satisfaction understanding patients better.

In the Internet age, dental records have never been easier to create and share. Online you can find text, videos, digital images, sound files and every combination of these.

For undergraduate dental students, law and ethics, or ethics and 'jurisprudence' (that is, the science that teaches the application of every branch of dental knowledge, to the purposes of the law) tend to be intertwined and inseparable.

Kat Wainwright DipPFS, Dental Student Adviser at MedDen Financial Services, explains the need for income protection and exactly what it covers.

Reena Wadia reflects on her experiences so far as a young dentist and the challenges she faced.

Most of us will have been in formal education for pretty much our whole lives, going from sixth form and college straight to four or five years of dental school.

Tim Newton was a speaker at the 2012 YDC conference. The Adult Dental Health Survey provides information on the common reasons for members of the public avoiding dental treatment...

I've now returned to general dental practice after completing a year in max fax. But it was only after leaving I realised that during the course of the whole year, I hadn't actually taken the time to reflect on why I wanted to do it and what I'd actually gained from it.

The public has a high expectation of the moral standards that should be maintained by anyone who employs a position of trust in society.

In May 2012 I travelled to Vanuatu, a South Pacific island situated between Australia and Fiji to volunteer dental treatment abroad.

So DF1/VT is over and my DF2/SHO begins.I wanted to share the thoughts I had during my first year as a qualified dentist, and hopefully give some advice I wish I had been given.

Surinder Poonian reflects on her first year and the many opportunities now available to the newly qualified dentist.

When I graduated from Birmingham in 2003 the dental career route was simple.

Andrew Fieldhouse makes a very positive statement in changing from an unsatisfying career path to achieving his dream of becoming a dentist.

Although new techniques and new materials are creating new opportunities, and new challenges for clinicians to meet and overcome - not to mention new dentolegal risks to deal with - there are still plenty of familiar 'old chestnuts' that crop up with monotonous frequency in claims and complaints against dentists.

At first sight, respect for patients might seem to be just common sense behaviour, rather than one of the basic ethical principles by which the dental profession is bound.

Neil Morrison gives advice on making the change from salaried employment to self employment. Neil is a partner with Campbell Dallas LLP, Chartered Accountants - specialists in the Healthcare market.

Feedback may be either positive or negative but, either way, we can learn important lessons about our dentistry that are equally important.

Lauren's project won her 2nd prize in the Postgraduate category of the 2011 Dental Protection and Schülke Premier Awards.

Exploring the unseen risks of providing dental care in times of economic turmoil.

Fiona McDonnell (BDS Ncl) writes about her voluntary dentistry in the Cook Islands which she discovered was an extremely worthwhile experience.

There are many young practitioners who seem to think that working in private dentistry must be the equivalent of living in Utopia.

There can be very few practitioners who have never been faced with a shocked and tearful child, who has just suffered an injury to their front teeth.

Recently I needed a new toothbrush.