Saving Smiles Trauma Toolkit Launched

UPFRONT Saving Smiles Trauma Toolkit launched In December 2017 the Local Professional The ambition is that dentists can and Dental Network, as part of the Greater should feel confident managing dental Manchester Health and Social Care trauma. This will prevent potentially Partnership, launched the Saving Smiles catastrophic delays in care and facilitate the Trauma Toolkit. This aims to follow in the recognition and management of endodontic footsteps of the Dental Trauma Guide and complications should they arise. the work of Dental Trauma UK by providing Practitioners wishing to access the guide a toolkit and framework for the diagnosis outside Greater Manchester can sign up and management of dental trauma in the at: https://www.dental-referrals.org/my- primary care setting. courses/. Registration is free and practition- The toolkit has been co-authored by ers will also find a modular continuing a team from Primary Dental Services, management of differing injuries that can be professional education programme with four Community Dental Services, Public Health stored on computer desktops or printed and hours of free certified CPD as they work England and specialist maxillofacial, hung in practices. It also includes informa- through the guide. paediatric and restorative services. It is full tion on managing child patients, safeguard- For more information contact James of essential information about best practice ing and the longer term consequences of Darcey at [email protected]. in trauma care with algorithms for the dental trauma. By James Darcey BOOK REVIEW THE SMILE Sick Rose, to win the British Book Design the invention of the dental drill. The STEALERS and Production award in 2014. This latest gruesome medieval art of tooth-pulling is volume is no less beautiful – bound in an described in detail, with historical excerpts Richard Barnett, 2017 Instagram-worthy colour scheme of off- describing the ‘malevolent tooth worm’, Thames & Hudson white, rosy ‘millennial’ pink and highlighted considered to be the cause of tooth pain price £19.95 pp. 256 with gold debossing, the cover evokes teeth, for hundreds of years before the advent ISBN: 9780500519110 gums and precious-metal filling materials. of germ theory. Beautiful depictions of Head of Illustrated Reference at Thames & St Apollonia, patron saint of dentistry, The Smile Stealers marks the third in the Hodges, Tristan de Lacey, even states that accompany an exploration of the religious ‘Sick Rose’ trilogy, authored by clinician the geometric themes of the chapter title and spiritual themes surrounding dentistry and medical historian Richard Barnett, in pages are a reference to Victorian apoth- in the past, while references to modern partnership with the Wellcome Collection, ecary bottles, and the bite-mark, jaw-hinged films and advertising highlight the role published by arts publishing firm Thames end papers are coloured in an ‘articulating that patient-as-consumer has played in & Hodges. paper’ blue. shaping dentistry into the global industry The award-winning series, also known This book makes particular reference to we know today. as the ‘Illogy’, has been praised for its the role of Pierre Fauchard, considered the While dentistry may seem an uncon- book design, its use of rare and unseen ‘father’ of modern dentistry, in transforming ventional topic for a ‘coffee-table’ book, archive material from the Wellcome the image of the gruesome and feared tooth- The Smile Stealers would be fit for a stylish Collection and Library, and its gruesome pullers into the dentiste, a skilled clinical dental clinic waiting room, although yet morbidly beautiful portrayal of professional sought out by the self-conscious may not be the first choice of reading medical and surgical advancement bourgeoisie of eighteenth century France, material for the anxious or squeamish through the ages. Being both trained as a who were concerned with attaining the patient. But just as high quality dentistry medical doctor and a professor of history, high-status associated with a beautiful mouth should combine clinical substance as well Barnett expertly narrates the ‘medical full of healthy teeth, described by Barnett as as good aesthetics, this book is far more history’ that has shaped the dental le bouche orneé. What is striking is how this than style over substance, and would not profession from its gruesome origins of reflects the current-day demand for high- be out of place on a BDS curriculum or the ‘tooth puller’, through to its modern quality aesthetic and cosmetic dentistry in a CPD reading list, offering the dentist-in- day format of the skilled clinical service society with an ever-growing obsession with training and qualified professionals alike, provider and aesthetician of the twenty- physical appearance and status. a retrospective look at the wider context of first century. Changes in social and cultural attitudes the constantly changing culture and values Book designer Dan Streat continues to towards the mouth and disease are explored of the dental profession. employ the exceptional attention to detail alongside the more clinical aspects of dental that allowed the first of the series,The history, such as the role of anaesthesia and Anisha Gupta BRITISH DENTAL JOURNAL | VOLUME 224 NO. 3 | FEBRUARY 9 2018 129 Official j ournal of the British Dental Associati on. .

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