Oral Health Foundation: The State of mouth cancer 2020/21: View online

Cancer Research UK – Head and Neck Cancer Statistics: View online

More on Orofacial Pain

More on Trigeminal Nerve

Drug Prescribing for Dentistry 2023:  View online

Drug Prescribing For Dentistry was first published in 2008 as a printed booklet and the second edition was published in 2011. An app to accompany the printed guidance, Dental Prescribing, was launched in 2012. The third edition of the guidance was published in 2016.

In 2023, a dedicated SDCEP Dental Prescribing website was launched for users in the UK. The website replaces the Dental Prescribing app and includes the most up-to-date information on prescribing in dental practice.

The SDCEP Dental Prescribing website provides the same content as the printed guidance and the app and has the advantage that it can be viewed on any mobile device or desktop computer.

Users can create a shortcut on their mobile device home screen to provide quick access to the SDCEP Dental Prescribing website. An internet connection is required.

SDCEP no longer provides updates to the printed guidance and users should access the SDCEP Dental Prescribing website for the most up-to-date information on prescribing in dental practice. The Dental Prescribing app is no longer supported or updated and should be deleted from all devices.

The SDCEP Dental Prescribing website has been developed with NES Technology Service.

 The guidance brings together advice on dental prescribing from the BNF and BNFC and is intended to be used in conjunction with them.

Updated Nov 2024

Dental antimicrobial stewardship toolkit: Gov UK: View online

Antimicrobial Prescribing – Good Practice Guidelines: Link here

Management of Dental Patients Taking Anticoagulants or Antiplatelet Drugs View online

A new guidance document from The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) on the Management of Dental Patients Taking Anticoagulants or Antiplatelet Drugs has been launched. The guidance aims to provide clear and practical advice to enable the dental team to manage and treat this patient group. It presents advice to inform the assessment of bleeding risk and decision making for treatment planning. Information about the newer anticoagulants and anti-platelet drugs as well as the more established medications is provided.

BDA guidance on conscious sedation: 2011 View online

Indicator of Sedation Need form View online

Anxiety questionnaire to be completed by the patient and dentist. This tool has been developed to support clinical decision making and also to identify the need of sedation in a population for those planning appropriate dental sedation services.

Nice Guidelines, Sedation in children and young people 2010, Revisited 2018: View online

SCDCEP Conscious Sedation in Dentistry 2022: View online

The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme website guidance on Conscious Sedation in Dentistry

Standards for Conscious Sedation in the Provision of Dental Care 2015:  View online

Dementia- FGDP guidelines

The Faculty of General Dental Practice UK (FGDP(UK)) has made its guidance on the practice of dentistry for patients with dementia available free of charge online.

Dementia-Friendly Dentistry: Good Practice Guidelines covers the epidemiology of dementia and a wide range of implications for dental professionals, including patient identification, competence and referrals, communication, consent and capacity, history taking, treatment planning, care delivery, prescribing and site-specific considerations for dental practices, care homes and domiciliary practice.

Developed in conjunction with the British Dental Association and the Alzheimer’s Society, it contains over 50 recommendations for practitioners, categorised using the Faculty’s ‘ABC’ (Aspirational, Basic, Conditional) notation, and was first published in hard copy in October 2017.

Dementia-Friendly Dentistry has now been added to the Standards Online portal, which already includes Clinical Examination and Record-Keeping, Selection Criteria for Dental Radiography and Antimicrobial Prescribing for General Dental Practitioners, and which has received over half a million page views since it launched in 2015. Dental professionals can register free of charge at www.fgdp.org.uk/standards-online, and the publications are also available to buy in hard copy at www.fgdp.org.uk/shop.