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Composite restoration of a lower molar

Tides of change: progress and headwinds for dental therapists 🌊🦷

Imogen Fox outlines the milestone journey of dental therapists and the remaining challenges preventing them from fully reaching their potential. 📈🚧

In 2011, I embarked on my journey into dentistry with both excitement and apprehension. As a new graduate, I was keen to practice my new skills but found myself navigating the uncertainty of clinical decision-making, treatment planning and meeting patient expectations.

With practice, my confidence in my ability to make good decisions and deliver high-standard patient care grew, but sadly my frustration in the role grew alongside this. Restricting legislation and outdated or uninformed views of patients and colleagues hindered me from delivering the dentistry I was trained to provide.

I have been repeatedly frustrated by the feeling of always working with one hand behind my back (metaphorically). In more recent years, each legislative change has felt like a bind being cut, another step toward opening the true potential of dental therapists. These changes sit hand-in-hand with a gentle shift in the way the profession is viewed by both dental colleagues and patients alike.

With the recent introduction of the amendments to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (HMR 2012), further freeing dental therapists to deliver local anaesthetic for treatment plans they can write alone due to the introduction of direct access in 2013.

Here, I reflect on the progress we’ve made and the obstacles still in our path, while looking ahead to the very bright future of dental therapy in the UK...

🔗 To read the full article click the link in bio or via Dentistry.co UK.