title: Does the dental profession know how to care for the primary dentition?
abstract: Across the UK many thousands of young children regularly attend the GDS for routine dental care. Once in the dental surgery the same story is repeated countless times - preventive advice is delivered, reassurance given, caries is treated and the case notes are written up by the dentist. The whole interaction is a largely unremarkable event and is accepted by patient, parent and dentist. The records of all these individual clinical episodes remain within each practice and until a patient returns for further care can expect to lay undisturbed.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019140:Dental Care for Children / Q000379:methods*; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000628:therapy*; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D010377:Pediatric Dentistry / Q000458:organization & administration; D019239:Practice Patterns, Dentists'; D012953:Societies, Dental; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous; D006113:United Kingdom